My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
I got into theater at an early age.
I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.
I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
I wrote my first play when I was eight.
My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.