I want to know why people suffer and what leads to the end of suffering. And not just the end of suffering, but the promise and purpose of ecstatic joy, dizzying elation and exquisite satisfaction. To understand these mysteries I courted death defying edges which led to plays designed to be spells and roadmaps. While studying psychology I wrote my first play about two fictional patients of Sigmund Freud whose alienation from society led their bodies to malfunction, but they still managed a gorgeous waltz.

Now, with a thriving private practice as a pain psychologist and a quote in a New York Times magazine cover story about pain, I am coming back to theater at a time when plays are inviting people who used to be separate to come together. Theaters welcome audiences more diverse than ever before in history and I am thrilled to write poignant, funny, sexy plays about dykes that lots of different kinds of people relish.