1. WHITEY is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about?
As the title hints, WHITEY is a play about race.
2. Did you choose the theme of WHITEY or did it choose you? Did the theme change during the writing of the play?
Race might be the most pressing and difficult issue in America today, so I think the theme and I chose each other. With so many writers tackling the same issue, the danger is you could turn out a cliché. I hope I’ve avoided that.
3. What is you approach to developing a play?
I work a play and rework it. And rework it again. As Gene Fowler said, “Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
4. Tell us about yourself.
I like Siesta Key Spiced Rum, and I like feeding apples and bread to the deer in my neighborhood.