I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process.… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I see the audience as the final collaborator. I think it's kind of bullshit when people say, "I'm not interested in the… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share
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… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share
The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share
African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career.… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share
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 Copy Share
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share
My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial decisions based… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share
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?… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share
The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share
Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin,… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share
