The Cherry Orchard’ is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations. Stephen Karam Read Quote
Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people’s lives, like Robert Altman did. Stephen Karam Read Quote
I was sending off my plays almost like an 8-year-old would send letters to Santa Claus. So it was a bit of a miracle when the Blank Theatre Company actually called and selected a terrible little play that I wrote. Stephen Karam Read Quote
Columbinus’ was four years of my life, collaborating with a lot of people and gathering lots of information. Stephen Karam Read Quote
I was talking to so many teenagers for so long that I started to feel like, ‘I have my own story I want to tell, and I need to do it soon.’ So I started to store away pieces that eventually became ‘Speech & Debate.’ I felt this burning need to write it while I still had not only all of the ideas but the passion to do it. Stephen Karam Read Quote
I think ‘Speech & Debate’ surprised people because it’s a play about teenagers that took the teenagers very seriously. They are very real. People wanted to see if they identified with one of the kids, that loneliness, that yearning for something bigger. That feeling of being stuck, it’s very adolescent, but those kinds of feelings linger on. Stephen Karam Read Quote
I was the worst-dressed person in Scranton. I was a total nerd. Obviously, I got picked on, but I was also able to find my own cluster of friends, and I think when that happens, you get by just fine. Stephen Karam Read Quote
Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine’s dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly. Stephen Karam Read Quote
I had spent four months in Cedar City, Utah, right after graduation as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It’s a town that has many people living the polygamous lifestyle. Stephen Karam Read Quote
