Each audience seems to have a life of its own, which is why watching the show regularly is so exciting, because it's always a different experience.

At heart, I'm really interested in this marriage of theater, film and television and I think what happened in the UK and obviously is happening here is that there's a convergence of talent kind of moving between the different disciplines and I find that very exciting.

My principal focus is finding great dramas.

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.

I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people in the film business working in television, obviously something that we were very influential in starting and doing at HBO. And I think that that's the focus of where I see the company moving forward, continuing to explore that intersection of all that talent.

I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.

The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.