When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Pratt in 1973. Fierstein appeared three times in "The Haunted Host" by Robert Patrick: in Boston in 1975 and at La MaMa and then Off-Broadway in 1991. in Andy Warhol's only play Pork.

Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is an American actor and playwright noted for the distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family as well as writing the award-winning book to the musical La Cage aux Folles.