Hometown: Somerset, NJ
Current Town: Bedstuy
Q: What are you working on now?
A: Surreal & absurdist play about a society that murders people for breaking morality laws on the day a revolution begins. It is an all female cast and each woman is of a different ethnicity. There are so many insanely underutilized actresses that I want to create a world that asks these actresses to tackle the kinds of roles that are generally written for dudes.
Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.
Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.
A: Years ago, I got an email from my preschool teacher who fondly recalls my obsession with getting the other kids to put on the Wiz after I saw it on Broadway. It seems I failed miserably and threw plenty of discouraged temper tantrums. I ran a student theater troupe at Stanford but we never did the Wiz. And I threw no tantrums. If anyone says I did, I'm fairly confident there's no proof.
Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?
Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?
A: I would make it way cheaper to mount shows and cheaper to attend Theater so the experience of seeing a show could be accessible to the masses. In this Utopian society, I could cry out "lets make something new!" And all the kids who never get called off the bench dive in and after a few months of rehearsal, we open to massive crowds because theater is as accessible as McDonalds...in this Utopian society.
Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?
Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?
A: Honestly they're mostly teachers who were and are deeply invested in sharing their infectious love for the theater: My High School drama teacher, Barbara Herzberg, Stanford's Patricia Ryan & Judith Dolan, USC's Nina Foch, and Darrell Larson & Oscar Machado from my time at Columbia.
Q: What kind of theater excites you?
Q: What kind of theater excites you?
A: Theater that cracks my mind open and makes my jaw drop with perspectives and ideas that changed the way I saw something - anything. I could count on 2 hands the times that has happened. The most recent was Small Mouth Sounds at Ars Nova.
Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?
Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?
A: Nobody knows anything, so beware of advice. Mine whatever is inside you and don't worry about commercial viability or pleasing anyone but yourself - that's ultimately what people will be drawn to.
Q: When not writing on a computer, what's your go-to paper and writing utensil?
Q: When not writing on a computer, what's your go-to paper and writing utensil?
A: I used to go for simple leather journals & black ball point pens, but lately I'm digging the Pokemon journals.
Q: When on computer, what's your font?
A:
Garamond or Caviar Dreams.
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