Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,' or 'I don't think the kind of people you write about are the ones our audience wants to see'... Up and coming young black female writers are still struggling to have their voices heard and have their plays produced.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.