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I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on.
- Stephen Karam
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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 to focus on theater. That's as good as it gets for me.
- Stephen Karam
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#Me
#Simple
I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.
- Stephen Karam
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#Something
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All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.
- Stephen Karam
#Autobiography
#Deeply
#Plays
#Straight
The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.
- Stephen Karam
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#Human Condition
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#Life
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My own journey as a writer has been the discovery of different theatrical voices. Chekhov was a revelation. Tennessee Williams was another one. We read 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and I still remember the cover.
- Stephen Karam
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I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Miss Saigon,' were thrilling. But my love affair with theater started with seeing a production of 'Little Shop of Horrors' that my sister was in.
- Stephen Karam
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I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.
- Stephen Karam
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Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives, like Robert Altman did.
- Stephen Karam
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#He
#People
I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.
- Stephen Karam
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#Standing
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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 game instantly.
- Stephen Karam
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#Game
#Good
#Pine
#Play
In writing 'The Humans,' I obsessed over the financial district and the architecture.
- Stephen Karam
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#Financial
#Over
#Writing
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
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#Death
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#Middle Class
#Out
To be honest, it's more fun being the underdog.
- Stephen Karam
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#Fun
#More
#To Be Honest
#Underdog
Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.
- Stephen Karam
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I had spent four months in Cedar City, Utah, right after graduation as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It's a town that has many people living the polygamous lifestyle.
- Stephen Karam
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#Graduation
#Lifestyle
#People
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