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

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

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.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

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

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

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