Found Excerpt

I found this little ditty from a writing assignment with a guest we had, professing my goals with my plays. It's always nice to focus in again on what your intentions are. I've been telling people that I want to write plays, but why, what kind of plays? Here's the answer:

"I love a dark humor of the world, where lines are crossed, and characters still have a lot of youth in them. I love characters that aren’t afraid to say what they enjoy, but are afraid to really say what’s important to them. I love and hate at the same time, how uncomfortable it is to watch my plays because of how much I’m in them. I want to be inside of my plays, the discomfort with religion and seeking of God, the discomfort with American politics, the fears I have and the frustrations I have. I want people to laugh [at the dark side of things] and then realize, "Shit, this is awful." Laugh because what else can we do? I want humor that’s not just funny and enjoyable, but that eats at you. All the things that you "know for certain," I want to take that and question it. Do I know that I really think I know? I don’t think I do. The world is a terrible and wonderful place. I want to investigate people, what’s inside of them, what their buttons are, what they’re hiding from. People need to be exposed to the little ugly parts. I’ve said that I want to roll in mud and blood and shit and semen and then use them to paint a face in clown make-up. Elegance in the grotesque. Comedy in what’s on the other side of the line drawn by society. Honesty in the face of fear."