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When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

When I'm on stage, I feel very much at home - within a theater, within an ensemble - so this entire process is something I feel very attuned with.

As a standup performer, I'm onstage, and it's important how the audience is looking at me. I'm looking at whether they're leaning forward or not, those types of things. You read an energy. And it's the same thing in a scene with other actors.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.