Actor

I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.

There's not a lot of gay programming on TV.

Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.'

Some people have the gift where they can just sing. I don't have the fail-safe voice, so it has to be something that I need to sing about.

When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a theater where they hired New York actors. And they told me about 'Backstage,' and so I got my school in Pennsylvania to subscribe. And there was an audition for a tour of 'The Sound of Music,' and I got the job. Deferred my admission to college just to go on tour.

When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.

Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person.

It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you.

It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you.

Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.

The hardest I've ever laughed was with Lea Michele.

The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.

I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.

While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so.

I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, watching the Tony Awards on TV. Not just 'watching' the Tony Awards on TV - I would record them on a VHS tape and bring them in to school and show them to the other kids.

I don't hate dating people, but I'm not on social media or anything.

Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.

I bought the VHS of 'Into the Woods' at the Suncoast in the Park City Mall and watched it in the basement when I got home. And when it was over, I rewound it and immediately watched it again.

For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.

I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.