"I sometimes wonder with young people today that there's a fragility born of carrying around violence machines every day of your life...

"I think the way we measure our success is how successful we are at maintaining that sense of community. This industry is up and down—no...

"It's such synchronous situation...As an artist-scholar, I find an issue that's really interesting to me and I end up having a both...

“For me, it’s age and experience. If I had gone to [Juilliard when I was younger], I think it would have been harder. I think I would...

“Whenever you walk into a space into a theatre, you can usually feel that it’s a white space. Usually from the way the audience members...

“Putting the language of ‘being a playwright’ into your mouth makes you a playwright. I discovered late in the game is that just saying...

“It’s why I write plays now, y’all need to understand where we’re coming from and you need to understand whatever idea you have in your...

"Write whatever the fuck you want to write. Period! Be as authentic and true to yourself as you possibly can. That is your only...

“What I’ve discovered is the older I get, the less I actually truly open up and express myself and let myself feel these things. I can...

"I try to write stories that I want to hear and experience. I am trying to make theatre to say to a demographic often ignored in the...

"Everybody wants to consume Africa in a certain way...they've already taken so much in terms of our stories and our culture...Let us have...

“I am so a black artist, but I am an artist first. When you put “black” you are telling the audience they may only relate to a certain...

“There is no musical I can get my brother to come to if I’m not in it and that bothers me. There is nothing, nothing, not a single show...

“I think people get it mixed up all the time, as if like an aversion to the construct of whiteness means you don’t like white people, and...

“In the best of worlds, as actors, we should be able to do whatever roles we’re right for—at base—in a perfect world. It’s not a perfect...

We head out of the studio and to the opening night party of Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play at MCC Theater!...

“I think that the role of producer is incredible important in these times because they are the Chief Imagineer. In this crazy political...

“[I thought], we can only do shows that are the all-black version of something, or we can do a show that is a musical revue that has no...

“I think diversity in musical theatre means acknowledging there is an entire jewel with endless facets of points of views that need to be...