I Am My Parents' Daughter, And I

Theresa Rebeck's Writing Is So Scarily Funny. I Just Love How Unapologetic She Is With Her Writing: She Doesn't Try To Make Her Characters Likeable Or Heroic, She Just Really Makes Them Human. Hopefully, The Audience Is Able To Love Them In The End - Or Have Whatever Feelings That They Want To Have About All Of Them - But I Love That She Doesn't Have That Agenda. That Is Something That, As An Actress, Was Really Appealing To Me; To Just Get To Be In This Group Of People Who Are Complicated And Very Human.

As Someone Who's Been Doing A Lot Of Classical Theater Recently, I Loved The Idea Of Getting To Run Around In Steven Alan, And Not Be In A Corset And A Wig, And Not Have A Dialect, And Get To Be In A 90-minute Play With No Intermission, And Get To Do Real Comedy.

It's Very Hard When You're Doing A New Play That You Believe In, And You Want To Tell The Story In The Best Way Possible.

When I Was Teeny Tiny, I Definitely Had A Voice That Didn't Quite Match The Way I Looked At Five.

You Want To Feel Like People Are Hiring You Because They Want To Work With You, Not Because Of Who Your Parents Are.