Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

My parents took me to shows starting when I was a very little kid. I remember seeing Henry IV at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC and our neighbor, who was playing Banquo, winked at me during the curtain call. I remember thinking "he can SEE ME?!" I was hooked from then. I wanted to be part of the place where you can escape the world, and also wink at it.