I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.