“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.” FeelsKindPlayMomentsRememberReadingLanguageAcceptingKnowingUniversityBrownNot KnowingWorldlyUnderdogForeign LanguageFreshmanWaspsBrown University Author:Stephen Karam
“So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.” KindHas BeensCertainInterestStrangeDramaGreat AmericanDysfunctionDysfunctional Family Author:Stephen Karam
“There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.” YearsKindMeanMatterMotherFiveDaughterTwentiesRaisedFive YearsNervesTwenty FiveUnspokenShortcutsMother And Daughter Author:Stephen Karam