When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

I've always viewed 'Sons of the Prophet' as the first part of a larger trilogy - not three plays dependent on each other but three stand-alone plays connected by theme and, likely, further adventures of the Douaihy family.

Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and have zero name recognition.

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.

Football was always big in my family.

As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.