What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, "well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct".

I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.