Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

Everything matters. Time is precious.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.