I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
Adam RappIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
Adam RappI don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
Adam RappI feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.
Adam Rapp