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In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.

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Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.

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I have two sensational kids who I have raised with my husband, hoping and working every day to help them become healthy, happy, and decent human beings.

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I have a dog whose name is Banquo.

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Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy.

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Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth?

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I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people.

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The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.

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Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.

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Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: February 19th, 1958

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