- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing for the screen.
- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
- Production
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very into the first production of the show.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
- Enlightening
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fault now is making my plays too short.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
- Both Ways
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.
- Guinea Pigs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
- Theatre
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020