James Snyder

Eight shows in six days can become very tiring - actually, a grind. It's not that I ever dreaded going to work because I always maintained a level of gratitude.

It's interesting because when you're in a show for a year, your life really isn't your own for that whole period.

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher.

My aunt Marcia Cope-Hart was in 'Phantom Of the Opera' in San Francisco for quite a few years when I was growing up, so we would go into the city a lot to see her.

I play a bunch of instruments.

I have rarely met a musical I haven't liked.

I was doing television and films for a good five years, and then I booked 'Cry-Baby.'

I did 'Rock of Ages' when it was in both L.A. and Vegas, playing the lead, Drew.

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.