I believe my job as a theater artists is to remind my audience of their humanity.  I do this by using theatrical traditions and established styles and forms (which allow the audience to recognize what their experiencing) and injecting them with as much originality as I can (which creates surprise).  Surprise (not to be confused with shock) is the way I get audiences to feel.  When they feel, regardless of what they feel, they’re reminded of their humanity.

 

My work is extremely personal as I believe the more personal risk I take the more the audience will relate and see their humanity reflected back at them.  So, through art, I try to be as masculine, feminine, ugly, beautiful, intelligent, base, chaotic, graceful, joyful, sorrowful, perfect and flawed as I am in real life.

 

I believe theater is about intimacy and try to make theater that shrinks the distance between the user and the maker (between the audience and the players).  I believe theater is theatrical and strive to imbue my plays and performances with ideas, breadth, possibility, care, poetry, and craft.  Most of all I believe theater is community and think of myself as a community activists:  someone whose job it is to bring people together, give them a shared experience and remind them of what it means to be human.