Writing Is My Primary Way Of Expressing

For Early Plays Of Mine, I Started With Character. But I Think That's Because I Hadn't Been In Theaters; I Hadn't Worked That Much. I'm Very Interested In Character, Obviously, But Once I Started Having My Plays Produced, I Became So Fascinated By The Theatrical Experiment And The Weirdness Of Theatrical Space, So Now All My Plays Start With Space And Stage Picture And Setting - Or Container Is Maybe The Better Way To Put It.

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.

Yeah, I Have The Detail-obsessed, Controlling Personality Of A Novelist, But I Somehow Ended Up Writing Plays.

I'm Very Interested In Silence. And, More Importantly, In What Happens When People Aren't Talking On Stage. I'm Interested In Letting Actors Play And Do Things Between The Lines. And In Slowing Everything Down.

I Feel Like The Reason I Ended Up Becoming A Playwright Is Because I Never Choose The Right Word. As A Kid, My Fantasy Profession Was To Be A Novelist. But The Thing About Writing Prose - And Maybe Great Prose Writers Don't Feel This Way - But I Always Felt It Was About Choosing Words. I Was Always Like, "i Have To Choose The Perfect Word." And Then It Would Kill Me, And I Would Choose The Wrong Word Or I Would Choose Too Many Perfect Words - I Wrote Really Purple Prose.