The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it’s different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else. Anna D. Shapiro Read Quote
If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong. Anna D. Shapiro Read Quote
I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don’t know if a lot of other people would see me that way. Anna D. Shapiro Read Quote
What I’ve understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job. Anna D. Shapiro Read Quote
I’m not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that’s the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do. Anna D. Shapiro Read Quote
I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don’t like speaking in front of people, I don’t think I’m bad at it. Anna D. Shapiro Read Quote
I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don’t really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can’t make them. Anna D. Shapiro Read Quote
