I'm interested in the moments where the audience is restless. I'm interested in the moments where they lean in and become incredibly… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are… — 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
I want the audience, when they leave, to think of the characters on the stage in three dimensions. I want them to… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end… — 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 feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Hopefully this is going to be a trend, the beginning of a movement to reclaim theater for the artist and not commerce.… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going. — 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 are holding… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse. — 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 decisions based… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
