Any Quote by Suzan-Lori Parks

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

— Jesse Eisenberg

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're…

— John Cho

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an…

— George A. Sheehan

I'm in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I get drawn…

— Nish Kumar

Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told that I'm…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of…

— August Wilson

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

— George C. Wolfe

There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being…

— Edward Albee

It's difficult because usually when they cast things, the main characters are Caucasian in absolutely almost every situation.

— Sandrine Holt

On a radio drama, I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr. Darcy as anyone else because I…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar