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

Bootsing, cut, sin, buh, sin, cut, sin.

Hello everyone, welcome back to The Hamilkast.

I am Jillian, and tonight I am here with Phil Colgan, Universal Swing in Hamilton.

Hi!

Hello, I'm so excited to be here, thank you for having me.

Oh my God, thank you for being here, I'm so excited to have you.

So first of all, before we dive in, can you please tell me your pronouns?

Yes, my pronouns are he, him.

Great, thank you.

So you're Universal Swing, but before that, you spent some time with that Philip company

that we know and love so much.

I did, I spent two years with them.

I was there swinging dance captain for, since day one, and I did the first two years left

in January of 2020, in the before times.

And then I was asked to come back in August of 2021 as a Universal, yeah, it all happened

very quickly.

Yeah, yeah, I wanted to dive into that whole thing because I've been stalking everyone's

Instagrams, but you also just would like to lay out some of your credits, which I know

makes people uncomfortable, it would make me want to crawl under a rock, I totally get

it.

But you know, your credits include performances at Paper Mill, Layhouse, Main State Music

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