Occupation: Playwright Birth: 1960
I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a blessing because the work gets more exp….
If you think of dramaturgy in North America, which is so realistic and so literal sometimes, sometimes what theaters - especially dramaturgs - ask fo….
Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a g….
I actually cut my sentences a lot. I'm very aware of the actor, giving them too many words - just a mouthful of words - it's difficult sometimes for ….
I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the critics agree on part….
One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the beginning, when the play is being discu….
I think I have a certain kind of style. I think at the same time, I'm aware that there's certain things that I did as a playwright in certain plays, ….
I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a culture that is ve….
Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the pla….
I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system….
I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts that I brought in. B….
I feel like I have to be a walking encyclopedia - I constantly have to be explaining myself - especially when I do table work or when I'm talking to ….
I'm very much inspired by the Latin music, especially the romantic boleros. Not that when I sit to write a play I listen to boleros. But I think it's….