Thread by @jellyd

My first thread...

THANK YOU Mom, for calling me Jelly Donut as a fat baby.

THANK YOU Dad, for taking me to my first concert (The Monkees) and buying me my first rap cassette (Young MC).

THANK YOU Mrs. Fields, for casting me in that big, terrifying role in our 3rd grade play, Cabbage Patch Dreams.THANK YOU Mrs. Breton, for the piano lessons.

THANK YOU Mom, for giving me your old nun guitar.

THANK YOU Dad, for buying me my second rap cassette (even though you had no idea what NWA stood for).

THANK YOU Bungmonkey and Keith Zaltzberg, and Phoebe Chase Ramsey, and all my high school friends for making me feel like a rock star when my self-esteem was at its lowest.

THANK YOU Jeffrey Malamy for introducing me to freestyling.

THANK YOU @wesleyan_u for introducing me to the friends who still change my life. (And for the student debt.)

THANK YOU San Francisco, for letting Kenny Taylor, Olive Mitra, Zach Canfield and I make music and art like the freaks we were meant to be.

THANK YOU @JamieDeWolf and Tourettes Without Regrets for giving freestylers and poets a stage in Oakland.

THANK YOU Anthony Veneziale for bumping into me on the street after moving to SF and being down to freestyle in your new apartment immediately.

THANK YOU @thefreezesf Freeze and @MortifiedSFBAY for the friendships and the chance to rap in a non-"8 Mile" setting.

THANK YOU @DaveedDiggs for agreeing to be in videos that will clearly haunt your career. #YogaBoner

THANK YOU @GSP for surrounding me with brilliant minds (and helping me pay off that student debt).

THANK YOU Paul Charney, Marc Vogl, Jon Wolanske, Tonya Glanz, Shaye Troha, and @killingmylobstr for honing my comedy chops and being the funniest friends I know.

THANK YOU Joan Rosenfels for giving me a creative outlet when I moved to New York 6 years ago.

THANK YOU @ashflanny and @moondrunkband for making music the center of my life again.

THANK YOU Tommy, @Lin_Manuel, @UTKtheINC, @offbookbeatbox , @arthurlewis, @ChrisisSingin, @bsherman2222, @jamesmiglehart, and @freestylelove for making me feel like I belong with you geniuses.

THANK YOU creativity... wherever you come from, whenever you hit us, for connecting us. We're listening.
#BroadwayDebut