Based on immersive reporting from the trenches of democracy, Hoyle’s shape-shifting performance introduces us to more than a dozen remarkable characters, all based on real people and conversations. From a crew of Latino barbers in Las Vegas to a Christian socialist from Colorado to a former gang-member turned social worker in Chicago, Takes All Kinds channels powerful, funny, and complex people caught in the social forces roiling the country, offering hope and ways forward in these tumultuous times.