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Welcome to the Theater People podcast. I'm your host, Patrick Hines. You guys, I am really,

truly thrilled to be bringing you today's episode with the one and only

Nathan Lee Graham. I first became aware of the powerhouse performer that is Nathan Lee Graham

back in 2003 when I saw him in the off-broadway production of the play Hit the Wall. It's a play

about the Stonewall riots. And as a lot of you know, I'm a total gay history nerd.

And since the Stonewall riots, which were the birth of the modern gay civil rights movement,

and if you don't know about the Stonewall riots, please give it a Google and learn about them.

Anyway, since the riots happened literally steps from the theater where Hit the Wall was performing,

I was obsessed with the piece.

Nathan would go on to make his Broadway debut in 2000 in the Wild Party, alongside Eartha Kit,

Norm Lewis, Tanya Pinkins, Tony Collette, and Mandy Patinkin. He was also seen in the off-Broadway show

Whig Out, and he was back on Broadway for Priscilla Queen of the Desert. And now Nathan is back off-Broadway show, Whig Out, and he was back on Broadway for Priscilla

Queen of the Desert. And now Nathan is back off-Broadway in the hit original musical

The View Upstairs, which tells the true story of the murderous arson attack on a gay bar called

The Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans in 1973. The show is amazing and Nathan is amazing in it. In fact, he just

received a Lortel nomination for his work. Lastly, in January at Broadway con, I moderated a panel

of out-gay Broadway actors that included Nathan, as well as Lisa Crone, Jay Armstrong Johnson,

Beth Malone, Andrew Kenan Bger, and Robin Deh Seuss.

It was truly one of the most memorable conversations of my career.

Nathan mentions it in the interview, just so you're not confused about what we're talking about.

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