With Commencement upon us, get to know Class of 2025 graduate Maxwell Brown! #Yale2025 🎓 From an early age, Maxwell Brown has known his place in the circle of life. “My parents put me into different summer camps and training programs for musical theater,” Brown said. “I confess that I was, and still am, a musical theater kid.” At one of those camps, Brown met some of the actors behind his favorite Broadway musical at the time: “The Lion King.” He loved the musical so much that he would dance around his bedroom to the soundtrack, sometimes prancing like a gazelle. Born in Queens and raised on Long Island, Brown’s deep love for theater and music continued at Yale, where he majored in theater, dance, and performance studies. “It started as this outlet for me to express myself, and it’s turned into a love for the craft,” Brown said. “Art can be an opportunity for people to shape who we are as humans in this world. It’s really a profound aspect of the human condition.” Both in and ...