1. “The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren’t necessary familiar with, the more open you become.”
2. “Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.”
3. “It’s much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you’re representing people in a truthful way.”
4. “Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.”
5. “All of my play are about people who have been marginalized… erased from the public record.”
6. “In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.”
7. “Replace judgement with curiosity.”
8. “I need a release from whatever I’m writing.”
9. “We use metaphors to express our own truths.”
10. “Each play I write has its own unique origin story.”
11. “I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life was sitting just beyond my mother’s gaze.”
12. “For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.”
13. “Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting.”
14. “There’s never any ebb in human misery.”
15. “I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.”
