I tend to write plays which take place in supernatural or exaggerated settings. I’m not exactly sure why this is – maybe I’m just bored or depressed at our current world.

But I like putting normal people in fantastical places. Not to see how they’d react differently, exactly – rather, it’s just fun to juxtapose relatable struggles with non-relatable circumstances. There’s a reason we laugh at demons with briefcases, or gods with intestinal problems. It lets us look at our own lives a little more objectively. And when you can get to that point in a fun and goofy way, it gets easier to ask some unsettling questions about who we are, who we should be to others, and how we should run our lives.

Also, my dialogue tends to skew comedic because all my characters use humor to avoid tough questions. Don’t know where they get that from.