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Stephen Karam

American Playwright

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I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens. Stephen Karam

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'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations. Stephen Karam

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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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I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on. Stephen Karam

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Without a conscious effort, all of my plays have all featured gay characters. I'm proud of that. Stephen Karam

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I didn't quite fit in in any particular, specific way. I was a gay teenager who was into drama. Stephen Karam

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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

'Sons of the Prophet' is a dark comedy about human suffering. The play explores the particularly messy portions of life - the times where you find yourself coping with multiple life issues, and before any of them can be resolved, two more show up on your plate. We've all been there, I'd wager. Stephen Karam

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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

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I was sending off my plays almost like an 8-year-old would send letters to Santa Claus. So it was a bit of a miracle when the Blank Theatre Company actually called and selected a terrible little play that I wrote. Stephen Karam

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.' Stephen Karam

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

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I was talking to so many teenagers for so long that I started to feel like, 'I have my own story I want to tell, and I need to do it soon.' So I started to store away pieces that eventually became 'Speech & Debate.' I felt this burning need to write it while I still had not only all of the ideas but the passion to do it. Stephen Karam

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I think 'Speech & Debate' surprised people because it's a play about teenagers that took the teenagers very seriously. They are very real. People wanted to see if they identified with one of the kids, that loneliness, that yearning for something bigger. That feeling of being stuck, it's very adolescent, but those kinds of feelings linger on. Stephen Karam

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I was the worst-dressed person in Scranton. I was a total nerd. Obviously, I got picked on, but I was also able to find my own cluster of friends, and I think when that happens, you get by just fine. 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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To be honest, it's more fun being the underdog. Stephen Karam

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

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

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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

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

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