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Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage,…

— Martin McDonagh

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

— Brit Marling

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the…

— Martin McDonagh

I wanted to go to drama school really badly, but I'd never been to a theatre. I had no knowledge of Shakespeare. Never been…

— Jamie Demetriou

I actually grew up seeing a lot of classical theater - a lot of Shakespeare - but I have such a passion for music…

— Phillipa Soo

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far…

— Alex Flinn

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

— Christopher Durang

I felt that I had done years and years of theatre, and it had been a wonderful journey where I'd learned a lot, but…

— Rachel House

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond…

— Aaron Sorkin

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

— Eugene Ionesco

I was really into theater, really into music a lot.

— Jacob Zachar

The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the habit of…

— Manoj Bajpayee