#491: Aaron Burr, Sir(s) // #HamilTEN Event at South Street Seaport
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On August 21st, 2025, I hosted a #HamilTEN event where I was asked to moderate a conversation with five actors who have played Aaron Burr over the years: Nik Walker, Donald Webber Jr., Jared Dixon, Marc delaCruz, and Deon'te Goodman. It was extra fun because they are all my friends and have all appeared on the podcast! This is the full audio of our chat, including the first announcement about the ending of The Hamilcast.
It won't be any surprise for you to learn that this conversation was *excellent.* All of these guys have so much insight and incredible things to say; we absolutely could have kept talking for a lot longer but with subways to catch and half hour calls to make, we were on a very strict deadline. We had deep dives on deep dives into Burr the person, Burr the character, and everything that comes with the massive responsibility of playing this role. We talked about if Burr is truly a villain or really just misunderstood (and kinda valid in his thought process?!), and learned about clues into the real Aaron Burr's psyche the night before the fateful duel against Alexander Hamilton (hint: handwriting!).
Plus, fun details about performing the role onstage, how other characters can inform the way this one is played, and you can't have a conversation about A.Burr without going in on the dreaded table jump.
Thank you again to everyone who came to the event, to Hamilton for asking me to do this, and to the wonderful guys sharing the mics with me.
Nik Walker's episodes: 60, 61, 130, 131, 209, 210, 211
Donald Webber, Jr.'s episodes: 114, 115
Jared Dixon's episodes: 236, 237, 238, 276, 277
Marc delaCruz's episodes: 163, 164, 165
Deon'te Goodman's episodes: 205, 206
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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 cats. Test, test, test. Hi everybody. Hi. Hi. Are we rolling? Are we good to go? Awesome. Thanks. Hi, everyone. Hi. Hello. To the Hamelcast. This is a special event. I've never done this before, so we're all going on this journey together. Stick around because there's going to be a little bit of an announcement at the end of our recording. So hang out for that. I guess I'll do this like a real episode. Hi, I'm, Hey, everyone. I'm Jillian. Welcome back to the Hamelcast. Today, I am here with five Aaron Burr's. Can you all please, I guess, introduce yourselves and let everyone know where you played Aaron Burr? you start you go you start all right |
| 0:57.4 | uh hello introduce yourselves and let everyone know where you played Aaron Burr? |
| 1:05.0 | All right. Hello everybody. I'm Nick Walker and I played Burr on Broadway and then tour and then, well, I understood Burr on Broadway and I played him on tour and then I played him on Broadway again. That was me. |
| 1:10.6 | Hello, I'm Donald Weber. |
| 1:12.6 | I played Burr on Broadway and Olive and Peggy tour. |
| 1:16.6 | And Puerto Rico, of course. |
| 1:19.6 | My name is Jared Dixon. |
| 1:21.6 | I have played Aaron Burr on the Phillip tour and on Broadway. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm Mark Dela Cruz and I'm currently standby on Broadway and Aaron Burr is one of the roles that I stand by for. |
| 1:35.3 | I'm Deonté Goodman and I understudied Aaron Burr on Broadway and played him on the Philip tour. |
| 1:42.3 | Also would be remiss to not point out that we have two set trippers here that both play Aaron Burr and Hamilton. Yes. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Set tripping. If you don't know what set tripping is like the Crips and the Bloods, but you're both of them, I don't know if we can edit that out, but. Set tri Seth's crazy. That's crazy. They'd be all right. Yay. |
| 2:05.0 | Amazing. And you've all been on the podcast, so thank you so much for joining me again for this. |
| 2:10.1 | Nick Walker has been on like seven times, but... That was an accident. Yes. Yes. Not intentional. |
| 2:15.8 | A lot of people cancel. Um, have you guys seen each other perform? Yes. Yeah. Yes. Not intentional. A lot of people canceled. Have you guys seen each other perform? |
| 2:19.3 | Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen these. I've seen, definitely seen you, definitely seen you. I've seen him. I've never seen you. I don't think I've ever seen your burr. Probably not. God, dang. I think we were too far away. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you were, I've seen you, I've definitely seen you do Hamilton. |
| 2:35.6 | I've seen Nick and Mark, and I, you were... I've definitely seen you do Hamilton. |
| 2:35.7 | I've seen Nick and Mark, and I don't know if I've seen him to. |
| 2:38.6 | I don't think we've seen... |
| 2:40.0 | Well, I've seen you. |
| 2:42.0 | He's never seen me. |
| 2:43.4 | Damn. |
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