I believe that the lives we are compelled to live are almost always ensnared in some kind of conspiracy that robs of us of our true size. I believe to enter a theatre is to receive an implicit promise that the true dimensions of our humanity may be restored to us. My characters come from all walks of life: a 16-year-old boy convinced he is 84 through lucid dreams; a rich art dealer/astrophysicist/ chess grandmaster tyrant; a 100-year-old man more alive than his young orderlies; a blind Spaniard who bargains for his death; a mother from Westchester, NY finally getting to know her dead daughter; a derrick man on an oil rig estranged from his family. Often there is a dangerous frontier that must be crossed for a character to be the person they want to be. Sometimes they risk everything they know of life to become this person. They might fail because they are delusional to begin with. But that doesn't mean they fail at everything or their struggle isn't glorious. I am interested in the truths people find too painful to look at straight on and make comedy out of it. I'm fascinated by what people believe and why they believe it. I try to expose what is underneath the ideas we use to shield us from reality. I want us to laugh at these strange and ego-bound ideas that steal our lives. And I want us to laugh as a group, together, remembering the true height, depth, and breadth of us.