I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,' or 'I don't…

- Katori Hall

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

- Katori Hall

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

- Katori Hall

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

- Katori Hall

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

- Katori Hall

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

- Katori Hall

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of t…

- Katori Hall

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

- Katori Hall

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun. You don't know everything, and tha…

- Katori Hall