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I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Miss Saigon,' were thrilling. But my love affair with theater started with seeing a production of 'Little Shop of Horrors' that my sister was in.

My own journey as a writer has been the discovery of different theatrical voices. Chekhov was a revelation. Tennessee Williams was another one. We read 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and I still remember the cover.

I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.

Until I have a family or a mortgage, I'm trying to keep my lifestyle simple and my apartment affordable so that I can continue to focus on theater. That's as good as it gets for me.

I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on.

I think it's scary to be alive, but also exhilarating and joyful.

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

The best thing about being nominated in a category like best new play is realizing there were enough new plays to make a category.

Without a conscious effort, all of my plays have all featured gay characters. I'm proud of that.

I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.

Because I didn't go to graduate school or have mentorship out of college, meeting other playwrights and developing those friendships as a result of being a 'grown up' playwright - that's become an essential community for me. My contemporaries are all my mentors whether they know it or not.

I hope to be known as a writer who told the truth.

I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing recedes into the background, and hope that it's still there.

I lived in a basement duplex on 96th Street on the Upper West Side.

I didn't quite fit in in any particular, specific way. I was a gay teenager who was into drama.

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