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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. "

Lynn Nottage

Moment

Broadway

Sweat

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" Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be. "

" I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release. "

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

" The stage is the last bastion of segregation. "

" People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices; you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process. "

" I try to be led by my curiosity. "

" I wouldn't say I see my work as having a political ideology. Lynn Nottage certainly has a political ideology. I think that the work is an extension of who I am, but I don't think that when I write the play I'm looking to push the audience one way or another. "

" Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living. "

" If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white. "

" We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding Broadway back. "

" By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority. "

" I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color. "

" 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. "

" In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life. "

" 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. "

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

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Storyteller

Trade

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

" I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them. "

" I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. "

" Each play I write has its own unique origin story. "

" I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process. "

" Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs. "

" 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. "

" 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

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" When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes. "