The visual and performing arts offers a unique opportunity for humans to participate in an irrefutable cosmic truth: to live is to create. From the very first “let there be," it is evident that the purpose of humanity is to bring order to chaos – to explain our existence to the best of our ability and to feed off of what we observe. The earth marches in stride with the other beings in an unrelenting celestial dance. Each individual in the theatre and on the screen contributes in their own way to the creation that occurs on the sacred grounds of the stage. There is beauty and there is death among us. The theatre reminds us that time is fleeting, pain is momentary, and happiness is something worth fighting for. To live is to create. The finite nature of the theatre and the chemistry produced therein cannot be recreated in any other context. The relationship between actor and audience is what keeps us coming back for more. The love between creation and creator – artist and pen – man and breath. To live is to create.