Leslie Odom, Jr. to receive the Spotlight Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival
Odom has said he wants to use his work in film and theater as platforms for change. As he told the Desert Sun, “I recognized conversations like this as a child .. As an adult, I’ve started to have them myself. These were the conversations we were having backstage at ‘Hamilton.’ We were saying, ‘What is our responsibility to the movement outside the doors of this theater?'”