When the Meat Locker is Full

and the archive overflows

It is time to delete some plays.

and incinerate some sketches.

send some tiny model pieces to the set design scrapyard.

Some wonderful plays no longer fit the folks I aim to serve.

which is:

Small theaters and schools doing their absolute best work with a very very diverse range of plays.

and

All theaters having sold-out audiences at every show/ Everyone who might enjoy a show getting to go.

so, an awesome high-quality, super exciting theater scene available to everyone.

….in the USA.

...who wants to be a part of said theater scene.

(if I am being honest, I do want that for everyone in the world - if that’s what they want for themselves elsewhere…but deep down I know I am very very American, and I stick to what I know.)

(and…Theater is very much so Not for Everyone…if you don’t like theater ever, no big deal. That’s very fine. Not for you. Sure! Come to a show with your cousin if they make you - but I don’t even need you to pretend you are having a good time. Sit there with a straight face, …