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" 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. "

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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. "

Lynn Nottage

Beginning

Woman

Power

" There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives. "

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

Lynn Nottage

Storyteller

Trade

" African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently. "

" 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. "

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

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "

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

" I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless. "

Lynn Nottage

People

Talking

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

" 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'm a schizophrenic writer. "

Lynn Nottage

Writer

Schizophrenic

" The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America. "

" In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields. "

" 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. "

" I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization. "

" 'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.' "

" What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it. "

Lynn Nottage

Find

Hunt

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

Lynn Nottage

You

Become

" I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze. "

" American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world. "

" By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires. "

" 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. "

" Silence is complicity. I believe that. "

" The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax. "

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

Lynn Nottage

Story

Good Story