I grew up as a reader and writer of speculative fiction. Before Beckett there was Tolkien, and these two writers can tell you a lot about me. I am wholly uninterested in the popular conception of realism: it's an artifice, like any other.

A play is a world--sometimes even a galaxy far, far away--where we are not bound by hegemonic notions of time and space. I do not experience my life as a linear course of events, but a series of memories, dreams, might-have-beens, and déjà vus that collide with the present to form my self, a view my plays reflect. Like Atwood’s picture of time, my plays, poems, stories are palimpsests. I deal in connections and juxtapositions. My recent play She Eats Apple employs the wonders of biology, videogames, fairytales, classical art, biblical mythology, texting, childhood rhymes, and sex education to triangulate the play’s world. I am interested in marginalized voices. I like telling women's stories. And because I am a designer, my plays are also pictures, on the stage and on the page.