I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

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.

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.

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

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.