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.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

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

I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.

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.

I want the audience, when they leave, to think of the characters on the stage in three dimensions. I want them to have empathy. I also want them to think about engaging more with where we are culturally.