“As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.” KnowsLooksEndsPlayAnswersAdvicePoetBabyFinalsGutsThe End Of The DayPlaywright Author:Stephen Karam
“Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want to tell. In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts.” ThinkingWayWantTryingDifferentPlayStoriesNightTermRegretTasteBest WayOpeningSyllablesTry Your BestChanges Over TimeOpening Night Author:Stephen Karam
“I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.” ThinkingWritingStillsPlayChoicesFinalsRhythmRuthlessWord Choice Author:Stephen Karam
“I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are currently practicing.” PeopleWaySelfPlaySeemsMightConsciousAssumingCome UpHarshSelf Conscious Author:Stephen Karam
“Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.” WritingPlayTermLevelsBasements Author:Stephen Karam
“I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.” ThinkingWayHas BeensPlayParentGenerationsCircumstancesVariousFascinatingConcreteHurdleOlder Generation Author:Stephen Karam
“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
