We live in an era where each of us has a massive catalog of film and television available through the internet at the swipe of a finger. To get folks out of their homes for a piece of art or entertainment, I think you need to offer something they can't get on Netflix or Amazon.

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.

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

The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater more vital than ever. It's definitely expensive, but I have faith that the market will keep recognizing the live experience as a valuable and important one.

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

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.