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Compulsions and Avoidance
I stayed up late playing with Legos last night. More accurately, I stayed up late reinforcing a speedy little yellow vehicle C and I spent much of the afternoon building, racing, breaking, and...
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Why I wrote I Am Not an Allegory
I wrote the play because I didn’t know who I was anymore. And as I realized I didn’t know who I was anymore, I started to realize that I never knew, never had a clue as to who I was. What I had were...
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Why I still don’t want to be a woman writer
Why I still don’t want to be a woman writer When I scanned the bookshelves of the little bookstore on South Street I was looking for authors and books I could relate to. People recommended to me Sylvia...
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Earning names and coming of age, talking to Khalil Kain
I learned about the Fire This Time Festival a few or more years ago, when I was invited to be on a panel of writers talking about making work, both on the page and on the stage. Founded by grad school...
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“I’m getting better at writing when I’m happy” talking to Christine Jean...
“I’m getting better at writing when I’m happy” talking Fire This Time with Christine Jean Chambers I remember Christine Chambers vividly from the first day of classes at Columbia. We all sat around a...
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On the importance of being in the room.
Shirley Kaplan yelled at me and I felt like an ass. We were talking about my play, Subways, that had just premiered at the downstairs space at Sarah Lawrence, where I spent my undergraduate years. She...
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“I either go ham or I ghost” talking to Ngozi Anyanwu
“I either go ham or I ghost” talking to Ngozi Anyanwu I talked to Ngozi Anyanwu about her compelling play in progress Homecoming Queen. The play about– thus far– family, belonging, and the contemporary...
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“Mr. Rochester definitely needed a better support system.” Talking writing...
I feel like this topic needs no introduction. In our American artistic spaces there has been an ongoing conversation about race and racial disparity, about gender and gender disparity, about minorities...
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“The characters know what they want to say,” talking to Maia Matsushita
The Fire This Time Festival is already underway! If you haven’t checked it out, you can do so, in NYC, right now. This Obie Award winning festival features stellar work from new and more established...
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“‘Do it better’ is relative.” talking casting & classics with Edgar Chisholm
This post is the penultimate in my series of interview this year’s Fire This Time writers’ group writers on the plays they’ve been developing. I went into this profile project without any expectations,...
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