Ep.46 - Shaun Parry, Broadway star, philanthropist, Mormon

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Shaun Parry is a talented actor, dancer and singer. He has starred in multiple Broadway and touring productions. He runs Promethean Spark, a non-profit that teaches life skills to impoverished youth throughout the world through the arts. In The Conversation, we discuss his mission, time as a seminary teacher, how BYU lead him to the arts, his Broadway career and his philanthropic efforts. Shaun is a fascinating and inspirational man.

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:08.9	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests
0:13.1	and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:29.0	Hello, Fr, and welcome to another episode of the Latter Day Lives podcast. My name is Sean Rappier. I am your host, and we have got a fantastic show for you again this week.
0:34.3	Before we get into our guest for this week, a couple of housekeeping notes. Thank you so
0:40.3	much for all of you who have sent messages on email or Facebook. Again, we want to do some kind of
0:47.0	question and answer. If you've got questions about the show for our one year anniversary,
0:51.4	that's going to be one of the sections. If you want to know about a specific guest or how we get guests or how we record or why we started or whatever questions
0:59.5	you may have about the show, please just send them over to me. We can be reached on Facebook.
1:04.9	You can send me a direct email. It's Sean S-H-A-W-N at Latterday Lives.com. Any questions at all about the show or about me or any of our guests?
1:16.4	We'd love to get those from you. And please let me know if I can read your name on air. I would certainly appreciate it.
1:24.0	Okay, on to this week's show. My guest this week is a multi-talented performer.
1:29.9	And honestly, you know, there are those commercials, they're beer commercials, but for the most
1:35.0	interesting man in the world. This is the most interesting Mormon man in the world. I'm telling you,
1:40.9	Sean Perry, is someone who reached out to me and just connected with me
1:45.9	on Facebook and he was in Utah for some trainings he was doing and we were able to meet up. And I
1:53.7	just love Sean. And to meet him is to love him. You're about to love him too. He is one of the
1:59.6	best people and most fascinating guys
2:02.8	that I've ever met. The only downside to this is that we got started a little bit late and it was
2:08.9	so nice of him to make time for me. But he had so many other things going on and people waiting for
2:13.7	him that we had to cut it a little bit shorter. Truthfully, I could have spoken to him for another hour and a half.
2:20.0	He has such a great life, and he is so inspirational.
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