My mission is to write beautiful, challenging work that improves the world.
My work has always been intuitive and innate: like me, my work is serious but embodies a humorous outlook on painful subjects and experiences. I strive to write profound, engaging plays that tell truths; plays that tackle big themes with characters who are facing life-changing choices.

My life values and artistic values intersect deeply. My work replicates my personal search for meaning and asks audiences to consider similar questions in their own lives. All my plays so far have centered on profound questions - how do we find purpose in our lives? Where do we look for it? Will it connect us to something greater than ourselves? Can we, should we, believe in our dreams? And can we ever recover from unspeakable losses? I investigate these questions through writing on overtly or covertly political themes, such as Presidential campaigns, drug use in baseball, hate crime murders, and abortion rights.

I began my career writing characters who are beyond redemption, and on those around them for whom the truth is a painful mess. Early in my career, I hoped that the characters I focused on would find salvation or forgiveness, but to my great chagrin, they rarely did. As I’ve developed as a playwright, I’m still fascinated by flawed characters, but my work has taken on a more nuanced view of good and evil. This fascination is what drives my writing, wondering how characters whose outsides seem conventional have such shadowy internal lives. Embodying these characters’ hopes and frustrations is what drives me to keep writing for theater.