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

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

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

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.

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

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.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.