#456: John Devereaux // Hamilton's Philip Tour // Part Two
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
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🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
John Devereaux (standby on Hamilton's Philip Tour) is back for round two and this episode is all about authenticity and being as present as possible. For John, he never wants to "lose his elasticity", so a lot of his work as an actor has to do with constantly learning and being curious about himself and the world around him.
This week, John shares stories about what he describes as "being tested" in auditions (...or was it just racism? You be the judge) and discusses his fantastic experience on the Rent 20th Anniversary Tour. From the importance of integrity to the true meaning of legacy to the "do no harm, take no shit" way of life, John is laying it all on the table.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Boots and cuts and Boots and cuts. |
| 0:07.1 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey friends, I'm Jillian, and welcome back to the Hamelcast. |
| 0:20.4 | This is my second episode with John Devereaux, who's currently a standby on Hamilton's Philip tour. He joined the show in 2019 with the Angelica Company, and he covers George Washington, King George III, Mulligan Madison, and Lafayette Jefferson. Last week, John talked about growing up in Houston, Texas, loving sports and wanting to eventually practice medicine. When he was in high school, he did some friends of favor and stepped in as a last-minute |
| 0:39.2 | replacement in a school show. |
| 0:40.7 | But look, John was not a theater kid, alright? |
| 0:42.9 | In fact, he went out of his way to make sure his bio in the program said that acting was |
| 0:46.4 | just a hobby and he was really an athlete who was going to be a doctor. |
| 0:49.5 | But look, we know how this story goes, right? |
| 0:51.4 | He stepped on that stage and everything changed. Not overnight, |
| 0:54.6 | obviously, but the full story of John's journey to graduating with the BFA in acting is in last week's |
| 0:58.7 | episode. This week, John opens up about authenticity, integrity, always staying curious, and how |
| 1:03.6 | there really is no day but today. It's true. Buddhism has been around for what, like 3,000 years? Come on. |
| 1:09.2 | All right, you know what? Let's just dive in. Here's episode two with John Devereaux. |
| 1:18.7 | In college, I eventually changed, yeah, like I said, my whole major, I petitioned to be a DFA, |
| 1:23.9 | and I ended up graduating with their Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting and still really |
| 1:34.1 | loved communication. So I tried to do advertising public relations that I love those classes, |
| 1:42.5 | but I think I just took it as an elective just to do it and |
| 1:45.9 | I love those classes so I still have this affinity for like I used that one to lot wow I have this |
| 1:54.5 | liking to being creatives with branding being creative with reaching other people. |
| 2:02.7 | Like what, one of the diagrams I think about when I talk about communication or branding |
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