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.

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.

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

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

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.

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