Playwright Quotes

I didn't quite fit in in any particular, specific way. I was a gay teenager who was into drama.
I don't come from a family of artists.
I don't go into rehearsal for a production unless I've figured everything out.
I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.
I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.
I had spent four months in Cedar City, Utah, right after graduation as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It's a town that has many people living the polygamous lifestyle.
I hope to be known as a writer who told the truth.
I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.
I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.
I lived in a basement duplex on 96th Street on the Upper West Side.
I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.
I think it's scary to be alive, but also exhilarating and joyful.
I think 'Speech & Debate' surprised people because it's a play about teenagers that took the teenagers very seriously. They are very real. People wanted to see if they identified with one of the kids, that loneliness, that yearning for something bigger. That feeling of being stuck, it's very adolescent, but those kinds of feelings linger on.
I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing recedes into the background, and hope that it's still there.
I think the best directors aren't afraid to ask questions.
I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Miss Saigon,' were thrilling. But my love affair with theater started with seeing a production of 'Little Shop of Horrors' that my sister was in.
I was sending off my plays almost like an 8-year-old would send letters to Santa Claus. So it was a bit of a miracle when the Blank Theatre Company actually called and selected a terrible little play that I wrote.
I was talking to so many teenagers for so long that I started to feel like, 'I have my own story I want to tell, and I need to do it soon.' So I started to store away pieces that eventually became 'Speech & Debate.' I felt this burning need to write it while I still had not only all of the ideas but the passion to do it.
I was the worst-dressed person in Scranton. I was a total nerd. Obviously, I got picked on, but I was also able to find my own cluster of friends, and I think when that happens, you get by just fine.
I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on.
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