I Ended Up Becoming A Playwright Because

I Feel Like There's An Obsession With Pace Right Now In Theater, With Things Being Very Fast And Very Witty And Very Loud, And I Think We're All So Freaked Out About Theater Keeping Audiences Interested Because Everybody's So Freaked Out About Theater Becoming Irrelevant.

I Don't Enjoy Hearing The Sound Of My Voice. The Most Important Things For Me Are Impossible To Articulate Extemporaneously.

I Feel With Writing, So Much Of The Time, I Don't Know How To Tap In And Be Spontaneous And Alive On A Daily Basis. So I Don't Write Every Day. I'm Just Not Disciplined, And I Can't Be In The Groove Most Of The Time. I Feel Like I'm In The Groove Ten Days A Year Or Something. But With Reading And Research, I Feel Like I Have This Incredibly Instinctive Pleasure-driven Process That Ends Up Working Out For Me And Inspiring Me. It's Almost Like A Maze, Like I Know Eventually I'll Hit The Heart Of My Play If I Read Enough Books.

If Anything, I Was The Opposite Of Most College Students Who Think They Can Do Anything.

Yeah, I Have The Detail-obsessed, Controlling Personality Of A Novelist, But I Somehow Ended Up Writing Plays.