Mike Harrison didn’t set out to become “the Broadway dressing room guy.” But when word spread about his miraculous backstage transformation for “Hamilton” star Leslie Odom Jr., he soon found himself working his interior design magic on drab dressing rooms for everyone from Cynthia Erivo to Ben Platt.
What drew you to working with dressing rooms? I never would have expected this career path, but it actually makes perfect sense, because it combines all of my worlds. I went to school for music and I was a performer. I came to New York and was singing backup and acting a bit, but my interior decorating firm was my paycheck. I met Leslie at a barbecue and we hit it off. Then he got “Hamilton.” He reached out to me with an idea about transforming his dressing room into this cool lounge. So I did it, and he said, “I hope you’re ready for this, because I’m telling you, this is going to be a thing.” I didn’t know he was being serious. But my second dressing room was for Cynthia Erivo, and then it was Lupita Nyong’o. Now, I’m working on my 20-something-th dressing room—all in a year and a half.
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