If Anything, I Was The Opposite Of

If I Think Back To Every Rehearsal Process For Every Play I've Ever Worked On, There's Just So Much Crying At Home. I Barely Sleep. There Are Moments Of Deep Despair And Anxiety, And Then There Are Moments In Rehearsal That Are The Most Exhilarating; Feeling Seen And Seeing Everybody. Feeling Like You Have A Purpose On The Planet. A Huge Part Of The Process I Enjoy Is Watching The Actors Figuring Out What They Can Handle And What They Can Take And What They Need From The Director And Me.

I Feel Like There's An Obsession With Pace Right Now In Theater, With Things Being Very Fast And Very Witty And Very Loud, And I Think We're All So Freaked Out About Theater Keeping Audiences Interested Because Everybody's So Freaked Out About Theater Becoming Irrelevant.

I Don't Enjoy Hearing The Sound Of My Voice. The Most Important Things For Me Are Impossible To Articulate Extemporaneously.

There Are Certain Early Plays Of Mine That I Really Don't Like, But I Can't Imagine Going Back And Fixing Them. I Would Be Totally Incapable Of It. I'm Not In The Head Of The Characters Anymore.

I Was 22 And Stopped Writing Plays, And I Didn't Start Again Until I Was 25. I Was Writing Badly. In College, I Attempted To Write These More Conventional Plays, But The Theater I Loved Was Downtown Experimental Theater. I Didn't Feel Like I Could Do That Either. It Didn't Occur To Me To Do My Own Thing.