Following your passions – & building a community that uplifts everyone around you.
In this season finale of Be The Good with Kate, Broadway producer, director, playwright, and true “theater architect” Nick Flatto joins Kate for a heart-filled conversation on how creativity, community, and authenticity can be catalysts for positive change.
From high school theater days (with Kate!) to Tony nominations, Nick shares his journey of how every swerve and turn kept him moving forward – and how he always stayed rooted in his mission to build spaces for connection and joy.
💡 In This Episode:
📣The power of following your authentic path, even when it’s unconventional.
📣Why community building is at the core of Nick’s work as a producer and creator.
📣Nick’s new original musical: a love story between two men that’s as universal as it is personal.
📣Velvet Stage Productions, and what they are doing to get needed stories told
📣Using life’s challenges (from family divorce to coming out to career detours) as fuel for goodness.
📣What constitutes ‘art’, and how we are all artists everyday.
📣How artists – and everyone – can build their own “sacred spaces” for positive impact.
🎶 Whether you’re an artist at heart, a theater lover, or just in need of an uplifting reminder that “love wins”, this conversation will leave you inspired to create, connect, and, of course, be the good.
Thanks for listening this season, and while the show will take a break for a bit, all the episodes may always be found on podcast platforms everywhere under: ‘Be The Good with Kate’ 🫶
🌟 From Nick: “When we're talking about community, there is no clear path to any career, but specifically the arts… My advice is, find your people, find your community…Go be creative, because that's what brought you here.”
Connect with Nick:
@nickflatto
@velvetstageproductions
velvetstageproductions.com
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