The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

I'm attracted to the underrated characters.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.

It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished.

A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.