To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like,… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong.… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I've always viewed 'Sons of the Prophet' as the first part of a larger trilogy - not three plays dependent on each other but… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Until I have a family or a mortgage, I'm trying to keep my lifestyle simple and my apartment affordable so that I can continue… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I didn't quite fit in in any particular, specific way. I was a gay teenager who was into drama. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
To be totally honest, I thought I would have a Broadway debut in the distant, distant future, maybe in my 60s or 70s when… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Coming home for me isn't, like, one family dinner. It's about am I gonna see 50 relatives, or am I gonna see 85? — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]…" That's happening less and less… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
![“Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]…" That's happening less and less now, but all it takes is one of those when you're nine, ten, eleven, twelve - and it's hard to describe to people who aren't, because of course if…” quote by Stephen Karam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bbd/stephen-karam-10010_church_suddenly-you-re-at-church-and-you-hear-s_732855.jpg)
