Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

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

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.'

If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.

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

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

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.