Leslie Odom Jr. on Becoming a SCAD Professor and His Return to ‘Hamilton’ This Fall

Leslie Odom Jr. is back in the classroom, but this time, he’s doing the teaching.For the past 10 weeks, The Tony award-winning Hamilton star, who’ll reprise his role as Aaron Burr this fall, has been leading a class of 12 select students at SCAD Savannah, helping shape the next wave of theater talent with co-professor and fellow Broadway actor Tiffany Evariste. During Memorial Day weekend, their instruction concluded with a cabaret performance by the undergraduates entitled “Getting Your Act Together: The Art of the Small Room.”Related StoriesMovies'Wicked: For Good' Trailer Teases Glinda and Elphaba's Fates as Dorothy ArrivesLifestyleJon Bernthal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach's 'Dog Day Afternoon' Headed to BroadwayThe success of the cabaret, held in the Gryphon Tea Room inside SCAD’s historic Scottish Rite building on May 25 and 26 came as no surprise to Odom Jr.“My experience of these young people is that every single prompt that I give them, every challenge that I give them, they run through...