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" Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn. "
Lynn Nottage
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" The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller. "
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" If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that populate the American theater. "
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" I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive. "
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" I feel like 'Sweat' arrived on Broadway at the moment that it needed to. I feel like a commercial audience was not prepared for 'Ruined' or 'Intimate Apparel' for many different reasons. "
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" I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze. "
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" A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what I'm calling the 'de-industrial revolution.' "
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" My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends. "
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" My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines. "
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" I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color. "
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" I am a Tony voter; it is an honor that I take seriously. Each season, I enter the process with a degree of enthusiasm and optimism, which dissipates as I slowly plow through show after show. "
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