For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.