The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.