Hi, I'm Stage and Stages, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilkast.

Bootsing, cuts in, bussing.

Hello friends, welcome back to The Hamilkast.

I'm Jillian. This week, I'm wrapping up my conversation with Blaine Alden Krauss from the

Philip company. If you missed parts one and two, go back and check those out. Those are episodes

301 and 302. Blaine tells me about finding his voice early, the journey to Hamilton,

what it was like to join the show just before the world stopped, his passion for maintaining

emotional health and so much more. You don't want to miss it, but if you're ready to go,

let's do this. Here's the rest of my conversation with Blaine.

Tell me about your activism. That is a natural, easy, obvious part of me that I feel like

lives and expresses its way through everything, like through everything that I'm doing,

if it's theater work, the type of theater that I'm trying to do, the stories we're trying to tell,

if it's through paradox work and introducing mental health through people. And if it's just through

being visible and being a source of information, a source of reliable information,

like you always have to do work for yourself, but I think people know I'm passionate about.

I stay up to date. I'm nerdy, so I watch the news and try to be healthy about it. In general,

news can just be unhealthy by its picture. And people know that I'm involved in passionate

present. And so I feel like I at least have earned the trust of those around me who when I speak,

say, share something, people definitely be like, okay, I'll look in, I'll tap in. And so yeah,

so it manifests, I feel like it manifests itself through many ways. And right now, Hamilton started

this ham for justice organization, or ham for progress, excuse me, we've gone through a couple

name changes, ham for progress, and local designs and all of it. Ham for progress,

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