When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.

Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

Hopefully this is going to be a trend, the beginning of a movement to reclaim theater for the artist and not commerce. I think there's a level of fatigue. Artists are tired of having to create work that's then coopted by commercial demands. When you begin souping up the car, the car no longer feels like your own.

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.