Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.
The process of doing plays will make you an actor.
I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.
From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.
I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.