All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.

Our balance and versatility. We have team speed and power to work with. We have young players to bring energy and veterans with game experience.

With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.