For the past two years, Sills has been working in his family’s business, helping to manage his late father’s real estate portfolio. Now that the business is stable, he is ready to make his theatrical return. “When we have these journeys as artists that take us away from our art, you come back a different person,” he says, and calls the temporary career shift humbling. “You come back changed,” he says. “I know I changed, so I’m curious to see how that plays out. So far, it’s been great, ‘cause it makes me grateful to be an actor and grateful for the opportunity to work.”
"I think more than anything, I took [this job] because it was a little scary to me," he says thoughtfully. "It's always scary 'cause you're doing it so fast." He compares the accelerated pace of an Encores production to walking on a balance beam, but says that he gets through it by not looking down. "As you get older as an artist, you worry less, and you just try and let it be about the work and recognize that everybody's pointed toward the same goal, generally speaking-and in this case, certainly," he says. "And most of the stuff you worry about, you can't control, anyway, so once you come to terms with that, then you can have more success in letting the things go that you can't control and just do your best."
