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" As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation. "

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Lynn Nottage

Men

America

Angry

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Bear

Sometimes

" I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage. "

" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "

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" I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the mainstream media. "

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" It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people. "

" I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire. "

" When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other. "

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

Lynn Nottage

Storyteller

Trade

" For me, the first thing is to tell a good story. "

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Story

Good Story

" Saying, 'I'm going to create jobs' is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of the suffering now. "

" My hobby is raising my children. "

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People

Talking

" There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage. "

" For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories. "

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Experiences

Sharing

" Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations. "

" When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about. "

" All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record. "

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "

" The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become. "

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You

Become