As a playwright I tell stories that illuminate the points where disparate threads in American life intersect and entangle. I am inspired by and committed to a theater that centers those who exist on society’s margins and to feats of storytelling that can motivate social change. As a white, male-presenting person, I am firmly in the camp of the privileged. But as a queer Jew growing up in a red state, I have also been “the other.” My work interrogates these and other contradictions. While the characters in my plays come from all swaths of society, in exploring them I look for the common human threads that unite us. In doing so I aim to tell stories about characters we can connect with deeply, even when they seem entirely opposite from who we are and what we know.