Do you ever feel as lonely and isolated as, as a tormented novelist might feel? Or are you kept company by imagining all the people who will soon be helping you bring the story to life?

Oh, I mean, that, that is the joy of making theater, just, just as you described it, to be honest, is the moment when you get to be in a room with lots of people who are there to kind of work with you to bring it to life.

And, you know, I always say that when you're writing a play, you're not writing something that is just going to be read by somebody in their head, like a novel.

You know, y- it's specifically written as a script that will be realized in a physical way, with sound and vision and all sorts of wonderful extra sort of theatrical tricks and bells and whistles.

And to get it to that place on a stage takes a huge collaborative effort, and it's joyous.

And yes, I do have those t- you know, when I'm trying to churn out a, a first draft, and then going back and doing my redrafting before we get to a rehearsal room, it is a lonely place.

And actually doing that bit is probably my least favorite part of the process.

Mm