As a playwright, and as a person as a whole, I always knew I had a very specific outlook on life. I grew up in the suburban middle class of New Jersey, my father has worked in retail stores for the better half of 20 years and my mother has worked an office job for just about the same time. The only real exposure I had to theater as a child was from my local community theater that was run out of the middle school I attended. The American theatre as a whole, I believe, looks at its work through a specific lens: This lens of high prestige, using very flowery, metaphoric language, holding itself to a high degree that caters very directly to other people in the American theatre. And while there is nothing wrong with that, I prefer to look at it differently! My work is for the mom of 2 coming off of her 9 to 5 wanting to feel like she is understood. Or the young kid who can’t go to college because they can’t afford to go thousands of dollars into debt. It’s also for the Shakespearean performer who just got off of their matinee performance of Hamlet. I strive for my work to be a place where everybody can feel seen, in some way shape or form- not just the people that I am working with. Because that’s always what I needed growing up! I want a 20 year retail worker who is facing losing their job because of the economic strain in America to feel heard, just as much as the young trans person who is trying to discover who they are, to name a few. I ultimately want people to feel a part of themselves that they can connect to, because otherwise, why make art to begin with!