At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.