Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

Replace judgment with curiosity.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.'

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

I like to go into a space, listen, absorb, and then interpret.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

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 Broadway back.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage

I try to be led by my curiosity.