Anthony Rapp has been associated with Rent since its 

studio production.  On Broadway, he has appeared in Rent, 

Six Degrees of Seperation, and Precious Sons, for which he

won an Outer Critics Circle Award and was nominated for a 

Drama Desk Award.  Off-Broadway he has appeared in Rent, 

Raised in Captivity, Trafficking in Broken Hearts, Youth is

Wasted, Sophistry and The Destiny of Me.  He has acted in the

films Adventures in Babysitting, School Ties, Dazed and 

Confused, Six Degrees of Seperation, Twister, The Mantis 

Murder, and David Searching, and on television in The Lazarus

Man, and The X-Files.

	As many of you may know, Anthony Rapp is homosexual.

Here's what he has to say about it:

	"I came out in the fall of 1992 when I was in The

Destiny of Me.  I thanked my then-partner-for-life (that's

what I natively called him) in my bio.  It was an important 

moment for me; at that time, I decided that part of my life's

work was going to be helping to break down this particular 

barrier.  I love the response I've gotten from kids, 

especially those of high school and college who are at 

various stages of coming out and who really thank me for 

being out.  I also like the fact that all the queer principal

characters in the show are played by straight people."

	"Since I've been doing Rent, I have felt that I have 

been able to grieve Jonathan's death with every performance.

Preserving Jonathan's show is a way of mourning him. We are

living with him every day.  After Jonathan died, Michael 

Greif said to me, "You get to be him for us for a while now."

That was intense.  He didn't mean it literally, but I was a 

link to Jonathan because Mark is a link to Jonathan.  

Jonathan's friends said similar things.  There were gestures

I was making unconsciously that they said were things that

Jonathan did.  At the end of every show, after the curtain 

call, I send four claps up to Jonathan."