I’m driven by the idea that theater can help assuage an overwhelming sense of existential despair and loneliness that – without it – threatens to envelop the universe. I see people get sad on stage, and I remember I’m not the only human who gets sad. I see people get angry on stage, and I remember I’m not the only human who gets angry. I see people fall in love on stage, and I remember I’m not the only human who falls in love. Then, incredibly, I can turn to my left or right, and watch an audience full of people feeling the same I am! As acts of journalism, of community, of empathy, and of revolution, my favorite plays find a way to remind me that I’m not alone. That I’m part of a great, human community.

Those are the plays I'm trying to write. The ones that remind us that we're not in this alone. That juxtapose the hilarious with the heartbreaking, the mythic with the mundane, and point a finger at the awful, wonderful strangeness of being alive and surrounded by other alive people.