The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, th…

- Stephen Karam

Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]...." That's happening less and less…

- Stephen Karam

As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice abou…

- Stephen Karam

Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want …

- Stephen Karam

I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are cur…

- Stephen Karam

I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most important people in my life, and wh…

- Stephen Karam

I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee …

- Stephen Karam

Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.

- Stephen Karam

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

- Stephen Karam