Doing is everything. Doing is learning, doing is improving, doing is growing. After a few years of pursuing a playwriting career in New York, this is the biggest lesson I have learned. It’s incredibly important to have great training, but after that the most vital component of you playwriting career is finding opportunities to write, write, write. I’ve taken numerous classes over the last few years to force myself to write. But once that has been accomplished, the next step is to find opportunities to see things produced. As everyone knows, plays aren’t meant to be read, they are meant to be seen. And as writers, we don’t grow unless we go through the painful and glorious process of getting our plays up on their feet. I love theatre because I’m thrilled when I hear the truth. And there’s something exhilarating about being in the same room with the performer when you hear it. I don’t get that same connection in other mediums. And there is something dramatic about hearing and seeing an idea in conflict. As a young writer, I had a tendency to write about abstract ideas. When you start with an idea, it tends to not be that dramatic. What is dramatic is the human element. The world is profoundly unfair. Things do not work out that well for most people in the world. But there is something innate in us, which always seems to think that the world is supposed to be fair. That there is an ideal we can attain. And we are continually shocked when we miss the mark. I think most people live in the space in between these two ideas. How happy we are usually depends on how well we adjust to this dissonance.