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Devin grew up in Rochester, New York, a keen downhill ski racer with dreams of competing in the Olympics. He attended New York University as an undergraduate and then in the Graduate Acting Program on a full merit scholarship. We caught up with Devin to grab his thoughts about his role in Slave Play.

Have you noticed any difference in the types of audiences and their reactions in LA vs. Devin: It's hard to generalize, but in Los Angeles we are so much closer to the audience as we are working on a thrust stage as opposed to a proscenium.

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The audience is a literal character in the Los Angeles production. We address them directly whereas on Broadway the audience was behind the fourth wall. So because of that, I think the audience feels much more implicated. They feel kawaoka challenged by the material and tend to feel more freedom to be vocal because of that implication, even sometimes talking amongst themselves as the play unfolds.

Going back to when you first read the play: What was your initial gut response? Devin: I wanted to tell this story. To be a part of this moment devin theatre history. I knew what Jeremy had written was important. Is important. We as a country need to grapple and wrestle kawaoka the ideas in this play, with our inability to directly and aggressively address the intersection of sex and race.

It is not meant to please—although there gay some pretty good jokes in it. It is meant to incite and ignite. Incite feelings and ideas, and hopefully ignite change. D evin: I don't think I have a favorite! The material is so rife with complex psychological, emotional, political, racial etc.

The end of Dustin's journey is when he is the most revealing, as his partner reads him for being unable to see anything outside of himself. And despite any erasure he may be experiencing as a white-passing Asian man, the repercussions for his relationship in his myopia to not see beyond his own devin are devastating.

Having to go through this explosive racial reckoning and ultimate breaking of his decade long relationship is difficult to say the least. And to live it every night takes its toll. During the pandemic we have seen a horrific spike in hate crimes against Asian Americans. Have you gay this in any form?

And how does the play get to the root cause of this racism — including inter-racial racism. Devin: My experience is one of fear and sadness.