Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast.

Boots and cuts and boots and cuts.

Hey, friends, I'm Jillian, and welcome back to the Hamilcast.

This is my second episode with the truly

vibrant Terence Martin. Terrence is a powerhouse. He's a singer, a dancer, a voiceover artist, a

choreographer, a musician, an activist, and a founding member of the Black Artist's Dance Collective.

Currently, Terence is a swing and the dance captain on the Philip tour. Before that, he traveled

all over the world with Hamilton, but you'll hear about that in his next two episodes.

We're definitely all over the place in this conversation,

but you know I love that. It's my favorite thing.

So while we have yet to get into the details of his six-year Hamilton story,

Terence did explain how he has backstories for all the roles he plays.

He dives into the psyche of each and every role and then figures out how that would manifest physically.

And then, of course, like, everyone else on stage affects him and he affects everyone else.

So, like, does this guy cross his legs during the cabinet battle?

Is he kind of shady?

Is this guy super attentive during my shot?

What would this person's voice sound like?

Things like that.

Last week's episode ended when Terrence was talking about growing up as a self-described black feminine gay man in the red, red south. And he talked about a lot of the things that came with that,

including having to figuratively and literally fight for his own existence. And while in many ways that has never gone away, things did start to change once he went to DeKalb School of the Arts.

And that's where we're picking up here. So I'm going to let Terrence take it. Here is episode two with the fantastic Terrence Martin.

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