I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I'm very underground.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.