I'm always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

At the core of what I’m doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn’t mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

Im always interested in looking – historically – at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

When you’re a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

I don’t want to be in an art bubble.

I’ve gotten to the point that I don’t even know what tomorrow brings. When I’m teaching, obviously I’m in town for the class every week.

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it’s all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that’s the definition of spectacle.

Im always interested in working with people who are good team players – that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

Creativity and the world of the imagination – the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child – can be a way for us to survive tough times.

I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.'