Billy Porter

What a story this man has to tell!  I only knew Billy Porter as the Tony award winning star of Kinky Boots, as the most flamboyantly dressed at any awards show and as a Trustee for the Huntington Theatre Company (!).  What I didn’t know was the trauma Billy suffered as a young boy, the ebbs and flows of his early career, nor that he doubted he could ever be his authentic self. To be a queer, black actor posed many challenges for Billy, but as you listen to this podcast on Guy Raz’s “The Great Creators”, he was determined to succeed and never stopped working.  The bonus is that all that hard work has been recognized with preeminent awards including 2 Grammys, a Tony and an Emmy (so far) among others.