“Let’s start a movement to help people use their hands to create something out of nothing” With Actress Marcy Harriell

“I think that anyone who uses their hands to create something out of nothing is well on the way to doing good in this world. Make something. Find the other people that make the things. They are wildly diverse: in age, race, religion, preference, politics — but they all create. And they want to celebrate what you create. And sharing those creations makes all of the other differences fall away for a minute. More of those minutes wouldn’t be a bad thing.”

I had the pleasure to interview Marcy Harriell. An actress by trade — having starred in film, TV and Broadway productions (most notably, in Rent and Lin Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights) — Marcy is a Sewist, founder of fashion blog Oonaballoona, and the host of “Re:Fashion,” a new series on NBCUniversal’s streaming on-demand subscription service Bluprint (it’s like the Netflix of makers, doers and creators). Her upcoming show is a DIY costume series in partnership with DC Comics called Suit Up!, which…