Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

To be honest, it's more fun being the underdog.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

The older I get, the more appreciative I am of where I came from.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

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
Stephen Karam

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
Stephen Karam

Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and have zero name recognition.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

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

Stephen Karam
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 what I would call federal funding.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

'Columbinus' was four years of my life, collaborating with a lot of people and gathering lots of information.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing recedes into the background, and hope that it's still there.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

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

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

I've always viewed 'Sons of the Prophet' as the first part of a larger trilogy - not three plays dependent on each other but three stand-alone plays connected by theme and, likely, further adventures of the Douaihy family.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

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
Stephen Karam

Sometimes you realize you don't give people in your hometown enough credit.

Stephen Karam
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 town that has many people living the polygamous lifestyle.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

With 'The Humans,' I've found that because it's related to very familiar forms - the family play and the thriller, almost a genre-collison play - some people want it to be one or the other. Either less dark and more of a family comedy or a full-fledged thriller with blood and ghosts jumping out of closets. Everyone's taste is different.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

To me, 'Glee' is totally fantastic.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

I hope to be known as a writer who told the truth.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.

Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam

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.