My job as a writer isn’t to make stories. My job is to be fully present to the stories that exist around us and to give them shape and coherence so that you, dear audience, can connect with them more fully.

I write a lot about the environment, social justice, and how we treat our dead, because I am passionate about these things. I also write about bowling alleys and sex toys, because if we can’t have fun at the theater, then what’s the point?

Many of my characters are queer and/or Pagan, because I am queer and Pagan, and I want to recognize my community onstage. And, like real-life queer folks and Pagans, these characters are also much more than this, so that other people can recognize themselves, too.

I hope you leave my plays inspired to DO something. Call your senator. Call your dad. Write your advance directive. Learn the ukulele. Even if you’re only inspired to be kinder to yourself and others for an hour or two, I’ve done my job. Because with every action, you change the Story. And then I go back to work.