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[0:01] Michael Cyril Creighton: Hi, I'm Michael Cyril Creighton, and you're listening to Behind the Awards.

[0:07] Bruce Gotlieb: Well, Bruce, you know, the new group this season is having such a big success with The Adding Machine.

[0:12] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yes.

[0:13] Bruce Gotlieb: And our guest today is one of the reasons for that.

[0:16] Michael Cyril Creighton: So let's welcome Michael Cyril Creighton.

[0:19] Bruce Gotlieb: Bring him out.

[0:20] Bruce Gotlieb: Behind the Awards is so happy to welcome Michael Cyril Creighton.

[0:34] Michael Cyril Creighton: Hello.

[0:35] Bruce Gotlieb: Hi, how are you?

[0:36] Michael Cyril Creighton: Very good.

[0:37] Bruce Gotlieb: How are you?

[0:38] Michael Cyril Creighton: Good. I'm so glad to be here.

[0:40] Bruce Gotlieb: We are thrilled to have you. The Adding Machine opened, officially opened last night.

[0:44] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yes, I'm very excited about that. It's been a great, great experience. We're having so much fun. We get to do this through May 17th now, so it's really fun.

[0:53] Bruce Gotlieb: So you don't know this, but when I went to see Ginger Twinsies, I was very excited because you were also in the audience.

[0:59] Michael Cyril Creighton: Oh, well, that show was amazing. I loved it so much.

[1:01] Bruce Gotlieb: Oh, my God. So do you know Kevin Zak?

[1:05] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, I know him. I don't know him super well, but I'm a fan of his. I think he's so funny. We have a lot of mutual friends. Philip Tarantula is a good friend of mine. So, yeah, I was very excited about that show.

[1:17] Bruce Gotlieb: Well, I don't know if you've heard, but Kevin is now doing Mommy Dearest, the musical.

[1:22] Michael Cyril Creighton: I did hear that. Oh, my gosh. With Leslie.

[1:25] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah.

[1:26] Michael Cyril Creighton: Oh, my God. I can't wait. I'm excited about that.

[1:29] Bruce Gotlieb: All right. But on to The Adding Machine.

[1:31] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah.

[1:32] Bruce Gotlieb: Because I saw that. This is the best version of The Adding Machine that I've seen.

[1:37] Michael Cyril Creighton: I read it as a kid and found it hard to get into it.

[1:41] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah.

[1:42] Michael Cyril Creighton: It was kind of densely packed for me, especially as a kid.

[1:44] Bruce Gotlieb: It's not really.

[1:45] Michael Cyril Creighton: Oh, yeah. I mean, it's densely packed for an adult, too.

[1:48] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, exactly.

[1:49] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. When the project came to you, did you think that it was going to be for the role of Mr. Zero?

[1:55] Michael Cyril Creighton: No. When it came to me, I knew it was for this sort of amalgamation of this creation of everyman. But I did know the play because I saw it in college and I read it in college and I always remember it. And I always remember seeing it and thinking, oh, my God, I don't ever want to work in an office full time. You know, like, I don't want that in my life. And then I saw, of course, the musical version in 2008, which stuck with me. And I'd been a fan of it for so long and I hadn't done a play in about, I don't know, it must have been six or eight years. And this is the type of play that I love. I love sort of absurdist and expressionistic and not sort of straightforward. And then to hear that I was going to have the opportunity to play so many different roles and sort of really challenge myself in a way that I haven't in a long time felt fantastic.

[2:39] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. So it was it was a no brainer, especially once Scott told me who the cast was. Obviously, I want to spend my time with them. But also, I always wanted to work with the new group. I love I think I told Scott this. I saw what the butler saw when I was in like on home from break my freshman year of college, I think, at St. Clements. It was a new group performance at St. Clements. And it was Chloe seven, a Dylan Baker, Peter for Shet. It was an incredible cast. And I was like, oh, I want to be part of that new group. What's that all about? And then cut two years later, I ended up selling tickets for them from from a box office.

[3:10] Bruce Gotlieb: Oh, wow. But yeah, so I have a lot of history with the new group sort of roundaboutly. So it was very cool to get to have the chance to work with them now. You know, I love the choices they make in their shows.

[3:20] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, they they always get the best cast.

[3:23] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, it's wild. It's right. I think because they choose shows that other other groups don't normally do. So it's a chance for actors to really flex their muscles.

[3:33] Michael Cyril Creighton: Absolutely. Yeah. It's good to, like, have some challenges. And so your character didn't really exist in the original version of The Adding Machine.

[3:41] Michael Cyril Creighton: No, I mean, there's a there's a picture of the original cast and there's about 30 people in the photo, at least 20 people. And I'm like, they're all me.

[3:51] Bruce Gotlieb: That's you, right?

[3:53] Michael Cyril Creighton: The narration is something Thomas Bradshaw, who was tasked with revising the show a bit, is something he brought to the table. So this narrator character sort of becomes everyone. And in a way, I kind of think it's like this person, me in this case, my purgatory. Every single night I have to guide another person through this process and be part of everyone who's in their life. And sort of, you know, that's for me, that's how I'm making sense. Not that I have to make sense of everything, but.

[4:20] Bruce Gotlieb: Is it fun as an actor to be able to navigate and keep switching? You have so many different hats to wear that you get to play around a little bit more than you would.

[4:29] Michael Cyril Creighton: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's so it's so fun. I never get bored. It's never boring. And then when just when I'm about to, like, burst, I get to sit and watch someone do something else, you know, like I get a lot. I also get a lot of like audience time watching my wonderful, beautiful co-stars do great work, too.

[4:47] Bruce Gotlieb: So that's fun. Well, that's the thing. I think, you know, you're part of the audience and part of the cast at the same time.

[4:53] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. No, you know, you're the way in for the audience.

[4:56] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. I guess Scott, when we first talked, he said, we really want someone who has a sort of natural warmth to welcome the people in and let them know they're safe. I guess that's what I brought to the table. I wasn't sure why he wanted me for this, because it was just such a he kept saying it's a mountain of work. It's a mountain of work. And we've never worked together. He doesn't really know what my work ethic is like, which is actually insane. I think my work ethic is borderline crazy sometimes. But he was like, I just have a feeling you're the right person for it. Like there was no audition. We didn't read anything out loud. He just kind of sort of knew. I think the key of it is making the audience comfortable right from the start.

[5:33] Bruce Gotlieb: Do you think that's because he saw you on Only Murders in the Building?

[5:37] Michael Cyril Creighton: It might be. I mean, I think he's seen me in stuff for a long time and we've circled each other for a while. But yeah, I guess that might also have something to do with it.

[5:45] Michael Cyril Creighton: You know, people love Howard.

[5:47] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, I love Howard, too. And that must be so much fun to get to go to work.

[5:52] Michael Cyril Creighton: Oh, yeah, that's a great job. I love it so much.

[5:54] Bruce Gotlieb: Yes. Do people ask you why you had the cat in the freezer?

[5:58] Michael Cyril Creighton: Now they've moved on to being like, why are you acting with a robot?

[6:03] Bruce Gotlieb: Many iterations of Strange Co-Stars started with the cat.

[6:08] Michael Cyril Creighton: So, you know, we must talk about the dinner party scene in the animation. Because how many characters do you play in that? Five or six?

[6:16] Michael Cyril Creighton: Twelve.

[6:17] Bruce Gotlieb: Twelve? Oh, my gosh.

[6:18] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, Mr. and Mrs. 1 through 6.

[6:20] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, it's so interesting. So are the characters named with numbers as a way of dehumanizing them? Is that what's happening there?

[6:26] Michael Cyril Creighton: That's what I assume. Yeah. I mean, it's just sort of like we're all numbers in a machine, you know?

[6:32] Bruce Gotlieb: Right. Yeah, exactly. So there's no description of these people. There's no it's just Mr. 1 through 6 and Mrs. 1 through 6. And I just sort of had to go bold and make choices about who I thought they were very quickly.

[6:45] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yes. And each character is paired with a physicality. So it's very easy for people to keep it straight. But how did you work that out? Was that Scott's idea? Was that your idea?

[6:56] Michael Cyril Creighton: That was my idea. I came in sort of with my first initial thought. We tried it a whole bunch of ways and sort of came to what it was together. But my first initial thought, because I came in pretty memorized because I was very nervous about how much it was and I haven't done it in so long. But that scene I did not memorize because I was like I need to be able to play with this a lot and not get locked in anything. So I went through each character and sort of went really bold and just gave them a person in my head that they would sound like. And in my head it was like if we were watching a movie of this dinner party, it would be a bunch of character actors that we know well that would all be in the scene.

[7:34] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah.

[7:35] Michael Cyril Creighton: So I sort of broke it down that way and then sort of changed them up a bit as we went along. And then I started playing with the movements and then we actually didn't use them. Originally we were going to do it just me standing at a microphone and doing all the voices but standing completely still off to the side. And then pretty late on we moved the chair to the middle of the stage. And then almost like maybe just a week before we started tech or a few days before we started tech, we added the movements in. And I think it's the exact right way to do it. We were very collaborative on that. I thought it was really important that when I was saying slurs that all the silly voices dropped and if there were voices that they were sort of a cacophony around me.

And I think Stan Mathelone, our sound designer, does such an incredible job of sort of showing this mob mentality around me because I wasn't obviously not comfortable with all the words I had to say. But there had to be a really specific point of view or else it was not going to work. And I think we hit it, I hope.

[8:32] Bruce Gotlieb: When you're taking on a role that's been done before, this seems to be kind of I guess a hybrid because the piece existed but not in the way that you're performing it. Do you go back and look at other pieces as reference points or do you shut those out because you don't want to be clouded by it?

[8:50] Michael Cyril Creighton: I did watch the movie. There's like a link. There's like you can find the movie on some crazy website. I forget where it was. But you can find the movie which is so different than the play. It wasn't really that helpful. Other than like time frame, it sort of gave me a sense of the time. I watched like some movies from the 20s just to see what cadences were like. But I basically made my own choices with it and sort of went from there. I didn't try to emulate anybody. And I figured things out as we went. I had no idea who the last guy was until I did.

[9:20] Bruce Gotlieb: I mean that's the point, right? It's almost 100 years old or around 100 years old and it's still relevant today.

[9:28] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. You know the adding machine could very easily be AI.

[9:32] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah.

[9:33] Michael Cyril Creighton: Oh, I mean it feels so relevant. It feels – I have friends that came last night and were like, this is like my day-to-day life. Like his life is like my life except I'm not a misogynistic racist.

[9:43] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah, right. There's something about like believing that work is your identity, which I think as actors we can get caught up in. I can definitely get caught up in and I've worked to get past that as I got older. But there's that part where he's going on this racist rant and it's awful. And then at the end of it, he's like, but I'm a pretty good guy. I never miss a day at work, 52 weeks a year. And it's like that's not what makes you a good person. Work is not your identity. Being good at your job doesn't mean you're a good person. It doesn't amount to anything really. It's such a great character, sort of such a horrible antihero that just literally can't get out of his own way and can't let himself be happy.

[10:21] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah.

[10:22] Michael Cyril Creighton: The audience doesn't like him.

[10:23] Bruce Gotlieb: No, but Daphne makes him really likable.

[10:26] Michael Cyril Creighton: I think she's doing such an incredible hard job of making this man someone that we sort of can see his soft edges. And I don't know. I think she's doing such an incredible job. It really makes me able to hear the story in a different way and more clearly.

[10:43] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah. Well, I mean, she's certainly not the obvious choice to play Mr. Zero.

[10:47] Michael Cyril Creighton: No way, but she's killing it.

[10:49] Bruce Gotlieb: She is. Let's talk about the rest of your cast so people know who else.

[10:53] Michael Cyril Creighton: It's Daphne Rubin Vega.

[10:55] Bruce Gotlieb: Yes, as Mr. Zero.

[10:56] Michael Cyril Creighton: Jennifer Tilly as Mrs. Zero.

[10:58] Bruce Gotlieb: And Sarita Chowdhury as Daisy.

[11:00] Michael Cyril Creighton: I mean, Sarita is beautiful in this.

[11:04] Bruce Gotlieb: Oh, my gosh.

[11:05] Michael Cyril Creighton: She's so great.

[11:06] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah.

[11:07] Michael Cyril Creighton: And Jennifer, the whole first scene is just her.

[11:10] Bruce Gotlieb: Yeah.

[11:11] Michael Cyril Creighton: I mean, it's so long and not in a bad way. It's just like it's such a beast of a way to start a play.

[11:18] Bruce Gotlieb: And I don't think many people can start a play like that.

[11:20] Michael Cyril Creighton: And she sets the tone for the whole thing. Like, you know, and makes that character who's sort of very shrill and sort of nasty. She makes her likable even, which is sort of a really hard task to do.

[11:34] Michael Cyril Creighton: They're incredible. They're like... This show is a real challenge and really hard work and dark material, but like the three of them have been such a pleasure to work with. The four of us get along so well. You go to dinner every... Well, when we were in tech, we would go to dinner between every rehearsal and... Like we just would go to dinner together all the time. We hang out. They're fun. They're three completely different energies, but they all seem to work well together. I feel really lucky that it's those three specific people that I'm doing this dark show with because we just really like each other. It's really nice. It's not, you know, it's a pleasure.

[12:09] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, I think people will be surprised to see what Jennifer brings to the table because it's not what... Yeah, right. And it's not what you get from her in movies. No, no, no. She's incredible. She's a theater beast. She's like, uh, she really is a theater person, you know. She loves theater and she's ferocious like she's giving such a great performance. They all are. Oh, she's hilarious. So as you're watching that first scene, which again is just her doing this monologue, do you get a sense of how if the audience is with her or, you know, how engaged the audience is? Because you're on stage.

[12:42] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, it's hard to say because the audiences are all different and they're all, you know, a lot of times they seem very intuit, but they seem intuited in different ways. There's some very responsive audiences. There's some pretty sort of thoughtful quiet audiences. Sometimes it's a mix of the two, like you'll hear spattering. This isn't a show that's gonna land for each person the same way at all.

[13:01] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. Sort of hard and actually probably kind of dangerous to like gauge performance and stuff by the audience because I think it hits everybody so differently. Like you could have someone who absolutely hates it sitting next to someone who absolutely loves it. I think that's great. I think that's better than being like, meh.

[13:19] Michael Cyril Creighton: Right. Yeah. I'd rather people hate it or love it than be like, it's fine. Right, because even if you hate it, it means that it did something to you. Yeah, I don't think people are hating it, to be clear. But like, I mean, that's right. Some people may have, you know, a reverse reaction to it because it is a brutal story and it's a different way of storytelling and sort of not a traditional play. As you said, it's absurdist. And I say this all the time. It's the thing about theater that's so thrilling is you can go to the theater with, you know, two, three, four other people and everyone can have a completely different reaction, way in, out, whatever, and it just makes for conversation, which is just amazing.

[13:58] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, which is great. I think this show, like more than many shows that I've been in, really starts conversations.

[14:04] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So the new group is back to the theater at St. Clemons and now it's their home. So that has its own challenges. We had Derek on, your set was on in New York, and he was talking, I know, the set is gorgeous, and he was talking about the limitations of having to, you know, not have traditional scenery.

[14:23] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, which we didn't know. I didn't know that. Like, so none of us knew that until someone mentioned it, like you couldn't have backdrops, you couldn't have like set pieces or whatever, and we were like, well, I would never know it because it doesn't seem like anything was compromised. It's a beautiful set and such a, the set works perfectly for what we're doing.

[14:41] Michael Cyril Creighton: So I was shocked to hear that there were limitations because it didn't seem like there were because it's so beautifully done. But yeah, I mean, it's not been that the space has been lovely for me. I love that it smells like an old bookstore.

[14:53] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. Yeah. I love that it sort of has this community feel, you know, the stairs, the walking up and like the stairs to get on stage from the dressing room are insane and they hurt like all of them. Like, you know, they're like, there's one really scary spiral one. And one really rickety, like turny one. So those are those are challenging, but we're doing it. And then, you know, it gets a little warm sometimes. Those are the only things that I'm noticing. Otherwise, I think it's like an incredible space.

[15:19] Michael Cyril Creighton: And it feels really wonderful to do it there because the history that the new group has with it, the fact that it's their, you know, inaugural season in their new home, the fact that they're stained glass, like a red door when you walk up to the building is really beautiful. I just sort of that makes me feel nice. And I think, you know, when they do renovations and stuff, that stained glass is going to be lit in the theater. And those like things will be open, those shutters, and you can close them right before the show. I think that'll be really beautiful.

[15:44] Michael Cyril Creighton: So I love it. I love doing I love doing the show there. It's interesting the way the dinner party is staged, because you don't really get to see the whole table. There's right sort of like the middle is blocked. And you see people outside and you are right in the middle.

[15:59] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, there's some dialogue from the other characters, although it's mainly you. Do you still feel a sense of play with them, even though, you know, you're totally...

[16:07] Michael Cyril Creighton: Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, yes, like Jennifer and I feed off of each other, even though I'm completely in my own world, right? But I'm not in my own world. Like we have to like sometimes she'll accidentally say Mr. instead of Mrs. And I'll have to adjust. We have to look at each other. We have to still be in the scene together.

[16:25] Michael Cyril Creighton: I'll sometimes make a mistake and show, you know, that's the thing that's like the play is so complicated and there's so many words and there's so many words that are so close to each other that could take you down the wrong path. As a cast, we are very good at saving each other and getting each other on track.

[16:39] Michael Cyril Creighton: And there's like never been a moment where we're like, you fucked me. Oh, you messed me up. Or you can say, you know, there's never been a moment where like we've all had moments where we've gotten off track and we've all gotten each other back on track. And it's sort of like this very lovely volley with each other. There's there's no ego. There's no there. We're all in it just to do the play. But it's fun.

[16:57] Michael Cyril Creighton: Since you knew the play so well going in. What surprised you about the experience of actually being in it?

[17:04] Michael Cyril Creighton: I guess I didn't realize how dense it was and how intense some of the language was like, you know, this there's been some trims on Thomas's end, but even now, the last scene was, I would say it was probably double the length and the amount of words in that. And I didn't realize how much repetition there was. And I know that's part of the story is that life repeats itself over and over again, but also lines repeat themselves over and over again. And beats repeat themselves over and over again.

[17:31] Michael Cyril Creighton: So it is almost like you're in your own sort of purgatory, just going through the same beat over and over again, but not in a bad way. I was surprised how funny it is. I find it very funny. I was surprised how timely it was, because obviously I know like, oh, yes, a man being replaced by a machine that's timely, but just so much of it is timely and how moving it is and how frustrating it is.

[17:53] Michael Cyril Creighton: I was surprised how frustrated I was by Mr. Zero, especially at the end when, well, I don't want to give anything away for people who haven't seen it yet, but, you know, he just can't let himself be happy and it's so frustrating because I know people like that.

[18:05] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, I know people like that. And it's it's a bummer.

[18:09] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. Right. He doesn't learn anything through the play. He's right. It's not a character that the audience relates to and learns. You learn because he's a cautionary tale.

[18:19] Michael Cyril Creighton: Exactly. Exactly. I was also I'm also surprised about how fun it is to do. It is. Jennifer keeps saying like it's a hard play for audiences, but it's a great show for actors. It is. It's like actors love doing it, I bet.

[18:31] Michael Cyril Creighton: And I'm I'm loving it so much, too, because as we were talking about, like just having the chance to play so many different characters, but also giving myself the permission to know that this role, it is sort of intentional that they all are me, like all of these people are me.

[18:45] Michael Cyril Creighton: So I'm not like when I talked to Scott before I said yes, I was like, we're not supposed to think like I am like Laurence Olivier transforming completely and you don't know it's me. Right. Like the idea is that I am all of these people and they're all coming from Michael, the actor who is the narrator, who is this, who is that? So it's fun playing that sort of idea and taking the pressure off.

[19:08] Michael Cyril Creighton: I feel very more than ever, like very calm doing the show, which is surprising. Sort of just like it's like a record, like I know people say that, but like you started and then you just go right.

[19:19] Michael Cyril Creighton: Right. Yeah. I know. Once that ball is rolling, you can't stop. You cannot stop.

[19:23] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. That's either comforting or really scary.

[19:27] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, I'm thinking that I'm taking the comfort route for now.

[19:30] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, that's good. So, you know, you're obviously busy with this and filming Only Murders. But once I guess once this is over, is there anything else on the horizon that people can look for you doing that you can speak about?

[19:43] Michael Cyril Creighton: I don't know. Well, I'll go. I mean, Only Murders is filming in London this year and doesn't start until soon, I guess. I'm not going to be in as much of it because of the London of it. But I will, I think, go and do a couple of episodes. So that'll happen next.

[19:59] Michael Cyril Creighton: I don't know if that's secret or not. Whatever. I'll be a part of it in some way. And then I have a movie, a Christmas movie that I did that's coming out, I guess, this year with Arnold Schwarzenegger called The Man with the Bag.

[20:11] Michael Cyril Creighton: It's a Christmas heist movie, and it was a lot of fun. Adam Shankman directed it. It's me, Alan Richardson, Awkwafina, Arnold Schwarzenegger. I imagine it's coming out this Christmas. So that'll be the next thing. And then I'm just, you know, I'm a hustler, so I'm just going to see what else comes next.

[20:26] Michael Cyril Creighton: I'm sure it won't be too long before I'm doing something else. I'd love to do another take.

[20:29] Michael Cyril Creighton: Hopefully we'll see you on another stage soon.

[20:32] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yes. Well, not too soon, though. I need a little time for a little break.

[20:37] Michael Cyril Creighton: I know this is a heavy lift.

[20:38] Michael Cyril Creighton: It is, but it's fun. Are you exhausted by the end of the night or are you energized?

[20:43] Michael Cyril Creighton: The next day, I'm tired. I was like, I didn't realize how much energy it takes to do this. I mean, I like during tech. I was so, so tired just because those were long days. And it takes so much energy to do the play.

[20:58] Michael Cyril Creighton: Now that we're not rehearsing during the day and stuff, I'm feeling a little bit more normalized. Like I'm not like falling asleep in the middle of the day. You know, that must have been killer rehearsing and doing it because, you know, you have so much to do in this show.

[21:10] Michael Cyril Creighton: I know. But the saving grace, like I said, is the four of us would go have dinner between rehearsal and the show every night. And that was fun.

[21:16] Michael Cyril Creighton: Very nice that you have a diner on the corner.

[21:19] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, we never go to the diner, though. We have a whole bunch of so many restaurants on 46th Street and around. And, you know, Jennifer is like the queen of ordering for the table. She's so good at it. They're really fun to eat with. We have like great meals.

[21:30] Michael Cyril Creighton: So that's been fun. And that kind of kept me going through tech. But now we're going to keep it going every Saturday. We're going to have dinner together between shows.

[21:37] Michael Cyril Creighton: That's so nice.

[21:39] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. Yeah. And just before before we finish, you know, I don't want to leave out Marvelous Mrs. Maisel because so many people love that show.

[21:48] Michael Cyril Creighton: And you got to be part of that. Be part of the last season, which was so fun. That was a really great job. I've been lucky. I've had a lot of really great jobs.

[21:57] Michael Cyril Creighton: When you do TV, you know, you swing big.

[22:00] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah, I'm not here to dabble.

[22:02] Michael Cyril Creighton: That's right. I dabbled in my 30s.

[22:04] Michael Cyril Creighton: We're not dabbling.

[22:06] Michael Cyril Creighton: Right. Right. That was a great one that that lasted so much longer than I thought. You know, it was and again, made a great group of friends. There was all these actors that played the writers in the writers room of the, you know, the fictional writers in the show.

[22:18] Michael Cyril Creighton: So we were there together all the time for like eight months. It felt like I think we were there for eight months. It was such a long, long shoot. But what a cool thing to be part of that legacy. And what a fun character I got to play. Sort of.

[22:29] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. I mean, alcoholic.

[22:32] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah. I love it.

[22:33] Michael Cyril Creighton: Well, thank you so much for joining us.

[22:35] Michael Cyril Creighton: Thank you for having me.

[22:36] Michael Cyril Creighton: So nice to talk to.

[22:38] Michael Cyril Creighton: Oh, you're thrilled. Everyone should go check out The Adding Machine.

[22:41] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yes. Yes. We're going through May 17th and we are having a great time and we would love for you to existentially enjoy it with us.

[22:49] Michael Cyril Creighton: That's right. And, you know, you'll see performances that you are very unexpected from the whole entire cast.

[22:55] Michael Cyril Creighton: I agree.

[22:57] Michael Cyril Creighton: Yeah.

[22:58] Michael Cyril Creighton: So thank you.

[22:58] Michael Cyril Creighton: And we will see everyone.

[23:00] Michael Cyril Creighton: Such a pleasure.

[23:00] Michael Cyril Creighton: We'll see everyone next time on Behind the Awards.

[23:03] Michael Cyril Creighton: Bye.

[23:08] Michael Cyril Creighton: Bye.