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

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

I'm very into the first production of the show.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

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.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.