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

Boots and cuts and Boots and cuts.

Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Hamelcast.

I'm Jillian, and today I am here, oh, I'm so excited,

with Desmond Sean Ellington. Hey, Desmond. Hey, hey, Jilline. How are you? I am fantastic. How are you doing?

I am good. So I know you gave me kudos to my setup here. I have to admit that this is my first time using my setup. So I've had like some some equipment because I do some like audio, I mean, um, voice work or whatnot. But I've never had like a full like on situation like specifically. So I literally started this process Saturday of last week. And I completed everything pretty much last night this morning. So this is my first run through with like everything set up, audio, visual, all of that. So I'm pretty proud of myself for-

I got to tell you, it looks great. You appeared on my

screen and I see the headphones and the mic and the windscreen and then the egg cartons back there.

Yes, I've been working. I feel like my motto is it's kind of like, and I'm probably going to

age myself, but there was a movie back in the day called Field of Dreams. And the famous quote from that movie is, if you build it, they will come. And I've always wanted to get more into voice acting, voiceover, stuff like that. And I've gotten few here and there. And it's like the more equipment that I would get, the more opportunities I would get. Like, okay, let me get another mic. Then I would get another. Let me get an interface. You know. And so I'm like, what would happen if I just turn my whole other closet into a whole vocal move? What will happen then? So we shall see. Yeah. If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready, you know? Period. This is so great already. Desmond, before we do anything else, though, can you just let the

listeners know your pronouns, please? Yes, he, him. Thank you. Thanks. So you were with Hamilton

for quite some time. You were standby with Hamilton on tour for several years starting in

2017, I want to say. Yes. That was my first show, really. Yeah, which is crazy how, you know, the biggest show, especially at that time, would be my first show. My first audition here in New York. I had never auditioned for a show before. I knew of Hamilton just because, you know,

it was just big, it was all over. But I'm not from theater. I didn't. That wasn't my background.

I went to school for engineering. I saw my first Broadway show at 33 and kind of decided that night. I said, I think this is what I'm going to do. I don't know how, but I think this is what I'm going to do with my life. And almost 10 years later from that night, I've already completed my Broadway debut, my first Broadway show. Well, I was going to say, congratulations, Hell's Kitchen. I know I gave you a lot in the opening there. Oh, but don't worry. It's the journey.

We're going to break it out.

Totally, totally totally.

I kind of like starting at the end sometimes and then going backwards. That's right. I got to go back. But yes, congratulations. Thank you. You recently made your Broadway debut in Hell's Kitchen. You started with the show all the way down to the public. So like another long beautiful journey.

I know.

I know.

I'm so blessed to have, yeah,

have these, these long journeys with these shows. And I look at it as because again, I'm literally

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