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.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.

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.

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

The only thing that matters is the theater!