Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process..

My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant tal….

I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see ….

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer..

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so….

This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become write….

In art as in life, some things need no translation..

My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I on….