Stephen Karam

There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years…

— Stephen Karam

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured…

— Stephen Karam

Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to…

— Stephen Karam

Traditionally, I like to watch my plays from the very back.

— Stephen Karam

I think it's scary to be alive, but also exhilarating and joyful.

— Stephen Karam

I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most…

— Stephen Karam

I don't go into rehearsal for a production unless I've figured everything out.

— Stephen Karam

I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was.…

— Stephen Karam

In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts. So I wrestle with word…

— Stephen Karam

If there's ever a moment when I am an Anglophile, it's when I see so many theatres in this country that have…

— Stephen Karam

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

— Stephen Karam

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the…

— Stephen Karam

To me, 'Glee' is totally fantastic.

— Stephen Karam

I had spent four months in Cedar City, Utah, right after graduation as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It's a…

— Stephen Karam

In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one…

— Stephen Karam

I was talking to so many teenagers for so long that I started to feel like, 'I have my own story I…

— Stephen Karam

I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.

— Stephen Karam

Without a conscious effort, all of my plays have all featured gay characters. I'm proud of that.

— Stephen Karam