2016-06-24 15:25:31.197 TEST 2016-06-24 15:25:33.194 TEST 2016-06-24 15:41:00.011 >> HELLO, EVERYONE. 2016-06-24 15:41:01.014 WELCOME BACK. 2016-06-24 15:41:03.076 DID EVERYONE HYDRATE? 2016-06-24 15:41:06.011 YES? 2016-06-24 15:41:09.012 HAVE SOME TEA, COFFE E? 2016-06-24 15:41:15.019 WE HAVE A GREAT SESSION IN FRONT 2016-06-24 15:41:17.018 OF US. 2016-06-24 15:41:18.014 AND I WILL BEGIN AS PEOPLE START 2016-06-24 15:41:21.097 TO SETTLE IN. 2016-06-24 15:41:22.094 WELL, HISTORY ABOUNDS. 2016-06-24 15:41:28.097 AND IS 2016-06-24 15:41:36.092 MADE EVERY MOMENT WE SIT 2016-06-24 15:41:36.094 HERE TOGETHER. 2016-06-24 15:41:37.105 HISTORIC ELECTIONS HERE AND 2016-06-24 15:41:41.137 OVERSEAS. 2016-06-24 15:41:42.147 THIS WILL NO DOUBT BE A 2016-06-24 15:41:45.184 CONFERENCE THAT WILL GO DOWN IN 2016-06-24 15:41:47.182 THE HISTORY BOOKS AS WE 2016-06-24 15:41:49.188 EXPERIENCE IT ALL IN THE 2016-06-24 15:41:50.196 NATION'S CAPITAL. 2016-06-24 15:41:53.232 B -- LET IT BE THAT OUR U.S. 2016-06-24 15:41:57.233 CITIZENSHIP TAKES A DEEP BREATH 2016-06-24 15:42:00.233 AND TRULY THINK ABOUT WHO THEY 2016-06-24 15:42:01.233 VOTE FOR IN NOVEMBER AND THE 2016-06-24 15:42:05.235 REPERCUSSIONS OF THAT VOTE FOR 2016-06-24 15:42:07.232 ALL OF US. 2016-06-24 15:42:08.231 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:42:08.233 >> THE WORLD AS WE SEE IT IS 2016-06-24 15:42:16.266 RAPIDLY CHANGING AND WE NEED 2016-06-24 15:42:18.262 LEADERSHIP THAT CHANGES WITH IT. 2016-06-24 15:42:19.263 MODELS THAT CAN HANDLE THE 2016-06-24 15:42:21.262 CHANGE AND THINKING IT TAKES TO 2016-06-24 15:42:24.262 GUIDE. 2016-06-24 15:42:24.264 IT GIVES ME PAUSE AND MAKES ME 2016-06-24 15:42:27.27 LOOK INTERNALLY TO THE SYSTEMS 2016-06-24 15:42:30.31 WE IN THE THEATER HAVE IN PLACE. 2016-06-24 15:42:32.307 TODAY'S AFTERNOON SESSIONS 2016-06-24 15:42:37.304 CELEBRATE INDIVIDUALS AND 2016-06-24 15:42:38.307 COMPANIES THAT ARE TAKING RISKS, 2016-06-24 15:42:41.306 SPEAKING OUT, INNOVATING, LET'S 2016-06-24 15:42:43.306 EMBRACE THOSE VALUES AS WE 2016-06-24 15:42:45.306 NAVIGATE THE WATERS OFTEN GROW 2016-06-24 15:42:47.305 ROUGH. 2016-06-24 15:42:47.306 AND WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE 2016-06-24 15:42:50.307 LEADERSHIP MODEL, WHICH WAS 2016-06-24 15:42:53.346 DEVISED IN THE 20TH ENTRY, -- 2016-06-24 15:42:58.354 CENTURY, IS THIS THE BEST WAY 2016-06-24 15:43:01.346 FOR US TO LEAVE? -- LEAD? 2016-06-24 15:43:05.351 I WONDER. 2016-06-24 15:43:06.347 IS IT AS INCLUSIVE AS IT NEEDS 2016-06-24 15:43:10.351 TO BE? 2016-06-24 15:43:10.353 AGAIN, AS THE WATERS GROW ROUGH 2016-06-24 15:43:14.356 AND HISTORY IS MADE AROUND US, 2016-06-24 15:43:15.392 DO WE, LIKE OUR SPEAKERS TODAY, 2016-06-24 15:43:19.396 QUESTION AND EXAMINE OUR CURRENT 2016-06-24 15:43:20.395 MODELS? 2016-06-24 15:43:21.394 WHEN I HEAR TOM ROTHMAN, THE 2016-06-24 15:43:25.425 HEAD OF SONY'S VIDEOS -- STUD 2016-06-24 15:43:29.402 IOS, SAYING THAT GOING TO THE 2016-06-24 15:43:31.391 MOVIES AND BUYING POPCORN WILL 2016-06-24 15:43:34.391 BE AS VINTAGE AS A HORSE AND 2016-06-24 15:43:36.391 BUGGY AND IT WILL BE VINTAGE 2016-06-24 15:43:38.433 SOON, I START TO WONDER - IS 2016-06-24 15:43:42.433 THAT TRUE? 2016-06-24 15:43:44.432 I WE GOING TO BE THE ONLY PLACE 2016-06-24 15:43:48.434 WHERE PEOPLE GATHER TOGETHER TO 2016-06-24 15:43:49.437 HAVE A COMMUNAL EXPERIENCE OF 2016-06-24 15:43:51.433 HEARING A STORY? 2016-06-24 15:43:52.433 THE WORLD NEEDS THEATER AND WE 2016-06-24 15:43:55.484 MADE THE WORLD. 2016-06-24 15:43:56.482 HOW DO WE BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER 2016-06-24 15:43:59.485 WHEN THEY ARE HOME WATCHING 2016-06-24 15:44:02.483 AMAZON PRIME? 2016-06-24 15:44:02.485 DO WE CHANGE THE ARCHITECTURE OF 2016-06-24 15:44:06.503 OUR THEATER, DO WE RETHINK THEIR 2016-06-24 15:44:09.482 USE, DO WE TRAMPLE BORDERS TO 2016-06-24 15:44:12.514 FIND STORYTELLERS TO FILL OUR 2016-06-24 15:44:15.516 STAGES CONSISTENTLY WITH THEIR 2016-06-24 15:44:17.522 STORIES TOO? 2016-06-24 15:44:18.527 I WILL ANSWER THAT ONE, YES. 2016-06-24 15:44:21.556 INSTEAD OF THEATER NATION, WILL 2016-06-24 15:44:24.648 OUR CONFERENCE IN FIVE YEARS BE 2016-06-24 15:44:26.64 CALLED GLOBALIZATION? -- GLOVAL 2016-06-24 15:44:31.64 NATION? 2016-06-24 15:44:32.646 WILL THE BE LED BY FOUR PEOPLE, 2016-06-24 15:44:35.652 INSTEAD OF ONE? 2016-06-24 15:44:36.644 OUR DEVELOPMENT AND AUDIENCE 2016-06-24 15:44:40.645 CONDUCTIVITY, LEADERS COMING IN 2016-06-24 15:44:43.642 ALL SIZES AND GENDERS, FACING 2016-06-24 15:44:45.688 THE CHALLENGE OF THE FUTURE AND 2016-06-24 15:44:46.69 AN EQUITABLE AND THUS STRONGER 2016-06-24 15:44:48.784 WAY, I WONDER. 2016-06-24 15:44:49.735 WE UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF 2016-06-24 15:44:55.739 COMING TOGETHER, OF ASKING THE 2016-06-24 15:44:57.734 HARD QUESTIONS, OF OURSELVES TO 2016-06-24 15:45:01.738 BE OUR BETTER SELVES. 2016-06-24 15:45:02.735 TODAY, WE HEAR FROM FOLKS WHO 2016-06-24 15:45:04.744 HAVE HELPED SET OUR COURSE FOR 2016-06-24 15:45:07.782 THE FUTURE BY RECOUNTING OUR 2016-06-24 15:45:09.835 PAST IN ORDER TO PLOT OUR FUTURE 2016-06-24 15:45:14.827 , OR BY TURNING MODELS UPSIDE 2016-06-24 15:45:15.813 DOWN TO FIND OUT WHAT HAS BEEN 2016-06-24 15:45:19.815 HIDING INSIDE. 2016-06-24 15:45:20.809 I HAVE THE HONOR OF INTRODUCING 2016-06-24 15:45:25.811 MY FELLOW TCG BOARD MEMBER AND 2016-06-24 15:45:28.852 THE NEXT CHAIR OF THE BOARD, AN 2016-06-24 15:45:32.893 INDIVIDUAL WITH A GENEROUS 2016-06-24 15:45:35.895 SPIRIT AND VITALITY WHO WILL 2016-06-24 15:45:36.892 CONTINUE TO ASK THE HARD 2016-06-24 15:45:38.894 QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT THE 2016-06-24 15:45:43.917 STAFF 2016-06-24 15:45:43.919 IN THEIR CONTINUOUS INNOVATION. 2016-06-24 15:45:45.897 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, KEVIN 2016-06-24 15:45:48.941 MORIARTY, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, 2016-06-24 15:45:50.946 DALLAS THEATRE CENTER. 2016-06-24 15:45:51.936 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:45:52.936 KEVIN: I AM IMMENSELY 2016-06-24 15:46:03.937 HONORED TO 2016-06-24 15:46:03.939 SERVE TCG AS CHAIR AND I AM 2016-06-24 15:46:08.935 HUMBLED TO FOLLOW DIANE 2016-06-24 15:46:09.936 RODRIGUEZ IN THIS ROLE. 2016-06-24 15:46:11.936 SHE HAS SERVED ON THE BOARD 2016-06-24 15:46:14.936 SINCE 2008 AND SHE HAS BEEN OUR 2016-06-24 15:46:17.988 PRESIDENT FOR THESE PAST THREE 2016-06-24 15:46:18.985 YEARS. 2016-06-24 15:46:21.044 SHE EMBODIES THE VERY BEST 2016-06-24 15:46:22.986 QUALITIES OF TGG. 2016-06-24 15:46:24.984 -- TCG. 2016-06-24 15:46:26.988 I HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY HER 2016-06-24 15:46:29.986 PASSION FOR THE ARTS, HER 2016-06-24 15:46:32.034 COMMITMENT TO CREATING A FIELD 2016-06-24 15:46:34.04 THAT IS EQUITABLE AND JUST. 2016-06-24 15:46:35.033 HER DETERMINATION TO ENSURE THAT 2016-06-24 15:46:37.035 EACH PERSON'S VOICE IS HEARD. 2016-06-24 15:46:40.046 AND THE DEPTH OF HER FEELINGS 2016-06-24 15:46:44.035 AND THE JOY OF HER LAST. 2016-06-24 15:46:46.035 -- LAUGH. 2016-06-24 15:46:47.035 ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD, AND THE 2016-06-24 15:46:50.074 STAFF, I THINK -- THANK D 2016-06-24 15:46:57.105 IANCE 2016-06-24 15:46:57.107 FOR HER EXTRAORDINARY -- DIANE 2016-06-24 15:47:00.105 FOR HER EXTRAORDINARY 2016-06-24 15:47:01.146 LEADERSHIP. 2016-06-24 15:47:01.148 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:47:02.152 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:47:03.145 KEVIN: AS WE LOOK AHEAD, TC G 2016-06-24 15:47:17.144 AND R FIELD FACE MANY CHALLENGES 2016-06-24 15:47:18.146 -- OUR FIELD FACE MANY 2016-06-24 15:47:21.147 CHALLENGES AND EVEN MORE 2016-06-24 15:47:23.188 OPPORTUNITIES. 2016-06-24 15:47:23.19 WE ARE COMMITTED TO INSPIRING 2016-06-24 15:47:27.234 INCLUSION THROUGHOUT THE THEATER 2016-06-24 15:47:28.234 AND OUR COUNTRY. 2016-06-24 15:47:29.318 WE ARE COMMITTED TO ENCOURAGING 2016-06-24 15:47:33.244 INNOVATIONS IN CREATING THEATER 2016-06-24 15:47:36.24 THAT IS NOT JUST FOR, BUT ALSO 2016-06-24 15:47:40.235 OF AND WITH THE PEOPLE IN THE 2016-06-24 15:47:42.285 COMMUNITIES IN WHICH WE CREATE 2016-06-24 15:47:44.316 OUR ART. 2016-06-24 15:47:45.314 WE ARE COMMITTED TO 2016-06-24 15:47:47.312 STRENGTHENING THE FINANCIAL 2016-06-24 15:47:48.34 SECURITY OF OUR THEATERS, SO WE 2016-06-24 15:47:50.313 ARE ADEQUATELY CAPITALIZED TO 2016-06-24 15:47:52.315 TAKE RISKS AND PROVIDING 2016-06-24 15:47:54.313 MEANINGFUL LIVING FOR THE ARTIST 2016-06-24 15:47:55.324 AS WELL AS THE ADMINISTRATIONS 2016-06-24 15:47:58.314 -- ADMINISTRATORS ALIKE. 2016-06-24 15:47:59.325 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:48:00.317 KEVIN: MOST IMPORTANTLY, TCG 2016-06-24 15:48:07.361 EXISTS AS A REFLECTION OF THE 2016-06-24 15:48:09.355 AMERICAN THEATER ITSELF. 2016-06-24 15:48:10.356 THAT IS YOU, OUR MEMBERS. 2016-06-24 15:48:13.368 YOU ARE TCG, YOUR CONCERNS ARE 2016-06-24 15:48:17.356 OUR CONCERNS. 2016-06-24 15:48:17.358 WE SEEK TO CELEBRATE YOUR 2016-06-24 15:48:19.355 TRIUMPHS AND COME TO YOUR AID 2016-06-24 15:48:22.358 WHEN YOU FALTER. 2016-06-24 15:48:22.36 THOUGH, WE ALL MAKE OUR MANY 2016-06-24 15:48:27.378 PARTS OF OUR COUNTRY, NONE OF 2016-06-24 15:48:30.359 YOU ARE ALONE. 2016-06-24 15:48:32.356 WE ARE A THEATER NATION, 2016-06-24 15:48:35.357 TOGETHER WE ARE TCG. 2016-06-24 15:48:37.357 I INVITE THE BOARD TO STAND AT 2016-06-24 15:48:42.358 THIS TIME. 2016-06-24 15:48:42.36 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:48:42.361 KEVIN: 2016-06-24 15:49:00.444 SO, LOOK AROUND AT THOSE 2016-06-24 15:49:00.446 BOARD MEMBERS. 2016-06-24 15:49:01.446 I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEEK THEM OUT 2016-06-24 15:49:05.46 THROUGHOUT THIS CONFERENCE AND 2016-06-24 15:49:07.441 THROUGHOUT THE COMING YEAR, TO 2016-06-24 15:49:10.446 SHARE YOUR STORIES, YOUR HOPES, 2016-06-24 15:49:13.444 YOUR CONCERNS WITH THEM SO THAT 2016-06-24 15:49:15.442 TCG CAN BE EVER MORE RESPONSIVE 2016-06-24 15:49:19.501 TO YOUR NEEDS. 2016-06-24 15:49:19.504 AND I INVITE YOU TO JOIN ME IN 2016-06-24 15:49:22.497 THANKING THEM FOR THEIR SERVICE 2016-06-24 15:49:24.49 IN THE FIELD. 2016-06-24 15:49:25.487 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:49:26.498 KEVIN : AT A BOARD MEETING A 2016-06-24 15:49:33.535 MONTH AGO, I HAD THE PRIVILEGE 2016-06-24 15:49:35.538 OF EXPERIENCING VERY POWERFUL 2016-06-24 15:49:37.536 VIDEO THAT MEANS TO BE SAYING -- 2016-06-24 15:49:40.54 NEETS TO BE SEEN AND 2016-06-24 15:49:46.57 EMBRACED BY 2016-06-24 15:49:46.572 OUR FIELD. 2016-06-24 15:49:46.574 PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING 2016-06-24 15:49:50.576 ELENA, EMILYA, AND NELSON. 2016-06-24 15:49:55.574 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:49:56.569 >> HELLO, THANK YOU KEVIN. 2016-06-24 15:50:03.612 A SOCIAL MOVEMENT IS LARGE, 2016-06-24 15:50:07.607 SOMETIMES INFORMAL, SOMETIMES 2016-06-24 15:50:11.612 ROWDY, A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS, 2016-06-24 15:50:12.61 ORGANIZATIONS THAT CARRY OUT, 2016-06-24 15:50:14.613 RESIST, AND SOMETIMES HOPEFULLY 2016-06-24 15:50:17.615 OFTEN, UNDO A SOCIAL ISSUE. 2016-06-24 15:50:19.609 TCG HAS CREATED A MOVEMENT, 2016-06-24 15:50:23.613 ALONG WITH PARTNERS IN THE ASIAN 2016-06-24 15:50:25.655 AMERICAN ARTS ALLIANCE, THE 2016-06-24 15:50:27.662 ASIAN AMERICAN PERFORMING 2016-06-24 15:50:30.652 COALITION, AND INCLUSION FOR THE 2016-06-24 15:50:31.657 ARTS, AND HERE IN WASHINGTON DC, 2016-06-24 15:50:34.657 THE SONY APPEARED IN INITIATIVE 2016-06-24 15:50:36.658 -- THE SMITHSONIAN. 2016-06-24 15:50:38.656 ONE THAT LAYS THE GROUNDWORK FOR 2016-06-24 15:50:42.669 THE MOVEMENT MOVING FORWARD OF 2016-06-24 15:50:46.653 POSITIVE IMAGES OF ALL PEOPLE OF 2016-06-24 15:50:47.69 COLOR. 2016-06-24 15:50:47.692 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:50:48.697 >> THE INCREASING VISIBILITY AND 2016-06-24 15:50:52.702 OPPORTUNITY FOR ASIAN-PACIFIC 2016-06-24 15:50:54.693 ISLANDER PEOPLE. 2016-06-24 15:50:54.695 WE HAVE PARTNERED, WE HAVE 2016-06-24 15:50:58.693 REGIONAL PARTNERS IN SEVEN 2016-06-24 15:51:00.692 CITIES OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK, IN 2016-06-24 15:51:04.698 LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, 2016-06-24 15:51:04.7 SEATTLE, CHICAGO, MINNEAPOLIS, 2016-06-24 15:51:08.742 BOSTON, AND PHILADELPHIA. 2016-06-24 15:51:10.738 AND SOON OTHERS TO JOIN ON. 2016-06-24 15:51:12.739 AND WE HAVE -- HAD A FORUM IN 2016-06-24 15:51:18.739 NEW YORK ON MAY 2, WHICH FOCUSED 2016-06-24 15:51:21.751 ON CHANGING THE PICTURE, IT WAS 2016-06-24 15:51:23.745 CALLED "BEYOND ORIENTALISM" -- 2016-06-24 15:51:26.798 THE FORM. 2016-06-24 15:51:26.8 WE WILL BE -- FORUM. 2016-06-24 15:51:28.792 WE WILL BE HAVING THINK TANKS, 2016-06-24 15:51:32.864 THE NEXT ONE FOR THE CONSORTIUM 2016-06-24 15:51:36.866 OF ASIAN-AMERICAN THEATERS, AT 2016-06-24 15:51:39.864 OUR PARTNER OREGON SHAKESPEARE 2016-06-24 15:51:41.928 FESTIVAL IN OCTOBER. 2016-06-24 15:51:43.861 AND OTHER THINK TANKS TO FOLLOW. 2016-06-24 15:51:46.861 ONE COMPONENT THAT WAS DEVELOPED 2016-06-24 15:51:49.866 FOR THE NEW YORK FORUM WAS A 2016-06-24 15:51:51.863 VIDEO THAT KEVIN REFERENCED AND 2016-06-24 15:51:53.863 I WANT TO ASK NELSON TO TEE IT 2016-06-24 15:51:58.916 UP. 2016-06-24 15:51:59.905 NELSON: THANK YOU. 2016-06-24 15:52:01.903 I MENTIONED EARLIER WHEN I, AT 2016-06-24 15:52:06.912 THE OPENING, THAT I TWEETED LAST 2016-06-24 15:52:11.903 YEAR THAT I WOULD TRY TO 2016-06-24 15:52:11.905 ERADICATE YELLOW FACE FROM THE 2016-06-24 15:52:12.903 AMERICAN THEATER. 2016-06-24 15:52:13.904 THERE WERE LAUGHS ABOUT THAT, 2016-06-24 15:52:16.998 BECAUSE I THINK THAT PEOPLE 2016-06-24 15:52:17.944 THINK THAT THIS IS NOT ANYTHING 2016-06-24 15:52:19.962 THAT HAPPENS ANYMORE ON OUR 2016-06-24 15:52:20.947 STAGE. 2016-06-24 15:52:21.949 ONE THING I WANTED TO SHARE IN 2016-06-24 15:52:24.947 THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO IS HOW 2016-06-24 15:52:25.953 EASY AND SIMPLE IT WAS TO FIND 2016-06-24 15:52:29.956 THE IMAGES TO CREATE IT. 2016-06-24 15:52:32.946 I WANT TO THANK ANGEL DESI WHO 2016-06-24 15:52:37.947 HELPED EDIT THE VIDEO WITH ME, 2016-06-24 15:52:40.995 AS WELL AS TCG IN BEING 2016-06-24 15:52:43.993 COURAGEOUS AND JOIN US TO ALL OF 2016-06-24 15:52:45.993 YOU. 2016-06-24 15:52:45.995 IT WAS DIFFICULT TO MAKE, EASY 2016-06-24 15:52:49.009 TO FIND MATERIAL, THIS IS NOT A 2016-06-24 15:52:49.993 NEW STORY. 2016-06-24 15:52:51.99 IT HAS -- BUT AS 2016-06-24 15:52:57.041 WAS SAID AT THE 2016-06-24 15:52:57.043 FORUM, HOW LONG WILL I LET YOU 2016-06-24 15:52:59.043 KEEP PUNCHING ME IN THE FACE, 2016-06-24 15:53:01.046 BEFORE I STOP YOU? 2016-06-24 15:53:03.045 WITHOUT FURTHER INTO -- ADO, A 2016-06-24 15:53:07.051 LITTLE EDUCATION, A LITTLE 2016-06-24 15:53:08.044 KNOWLEDGE FOR YOU ALL, BEYOND -- 2016-06-24 15:53:12.044 "BEYOND ORIENTALISM" -- A 2016-06-24 15:53:17.077 GUIDE 2016-06-24 15:53:17.079 TO ORIENTALISM. 2016-06-24 15:53:18.084 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:53:19.074 ♪ 2016-06-24 15:53:21.074 [VIDEO PLAYING] 2016-06-24 15:53:27.115 [SOFT MUSIC] 2016-06-24 15:54:06.79 >> YOU DISTURB ME. 2016-06-24 15:54:53.292 ♪ 2016-06-24 15:54:56.369 [SOFT MUSIC] 2016-06-24 15:55:02.37 >> M A BALI WOULD -- I AM A 2016-06-24 15:55:25.408 BOLLYWOOD PRODUCER. 2016-06-24 15:55:28.407 ♪ 2016-06-24 15:55:30.412 [SOFT MUSIC] 2016-06-24 15:56:06.854 ♪ 2016-06-24 15:58:24.706 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:58:25.715 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:58:42.75 [CHEERING] 2016-06-24 15:58:47.848 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:58:57.907 EMILYA: -- 2016-06-24 15:59:05.926 ELENA: WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF 2016-06-24 15:59:09.958 REAL ASIAN-AMERICANS TOWARDS THE 2016-06-24 15:59:12.957 END OF THE VIDEO. 2016-06-24 15:59:12.959 AND THERE ARE THREE OF US ON THE 2016-06-24 15:59:14.958 PAGE -- STAGE, BUT MOVEMENTS 2016-06-24 15:59:19.96 CANNOT SIMPLY BE SUSTAINED 2016-06-24 15:59:20.959 WITHIN ONE COMMUNITY. 2016-06-24 15:59:20.96 THIS EFFORT MOVING FORWARD NEEDS 2016-06-24 15:59:27.007 YOUR SUPPORT. 2016-06-24 15:59:27.008 THE SUPPORT OF TIMES AND 2016-06-24 15:59:33 ALLIES 2016-06-24 15:59:33.001 MIGHT MAKE YOU THAT THERE IS -- 2016-06-24 15:59:34 FRIENDS AND ALLIES -- WHAT CAN 2016-06-24 15:59:40.004 WE DO? 2016-06-24 15:59:40.005 WHAT CAN YOU DO? 2016-06-24 15:59:42.001 HERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES OF HOW 2016-06-24 15:59:45.001 WE CAN STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT. 2016-06-24 15:59:47.006 IF YOU TEACH, INCLUDE SCENES AND 2016-06-24 15:59:51.005 MONOLOGUES BY ASIAN-AMERICAN 2016-06-24 15:59:53.047 WRITERS IN YOUR CLASSES. 2016-06-24 15:59:55.05 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 15:59:55.052 WHEN YOU RECEIVE A PHONE 2016-06-24 16:00:02.097 SOLICITATION TO SUPPORT A 2016-06-24 16:00:03.099 SUBSCRIPTION AT A THEATER, 2016-06-24 16:00:04.098 MENTION THAT YOU CARE ABOUT THE 2016-06-24 16:00:06.1 DIVERSITY OF VOICES BEING 2016-06-24 16:00:09.098 REPRESENTED IN THEIR SEASON. 2016-06-24 16:00:11.1 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:00:11.101 IF YOU SEE AN INSTANCE 2016-06-24 16:00:18.166 OF YELLOW 2016-06-24 16:00:18.168 FACE, BROWN BASE, RED-FACED, AND 2016-06-24 16:00:20.169 MISINFORMATION, SPEAK UP. 2016-06-24 16:00:22.167 BRING IT TO THE PUBLIC'S 2016-06-24 16:00:25.174 ATTENTION, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE 2016-06-24 16:00:27.17 NOT ASIAN-AMERICAN. 2016-06-24 16:00:27.171 THANK YOU. 2016-06-24 16:00:28.168 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:00:29.168 [CHEERING] 2016-06-24 16:00:33.168 DIANE: THANK YOU. 2016-06-24 16:00:49.212 SO VERY POWERFUL. 2016-06-24 16:00:51.21 I MET BILL O'BRIEN WHEN HE WAS 2016-06-24 16:00:56.218 THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DEAF 2016-06-24 16:00:59.254 THEATER IN LOS ANGELES AND I WAS 2016-06-24 16:01:00.258 RUNNING THE THEATER AT THE 2016-06-24 16:01:03.255 MARKET TAPER FOR HIM. 2016-06-24 16:01:05.254 AND DEAF WEST WAS A SMALL AND 2016-06-24 16:01:10.257 SCRAPPY THEATER COMPANY AND HAD 2016-06-24 16:01:11.253 PRODUCED A SHOW CALLED, BIG 2016-06-24 16:01:14.254 RIVER. GROUNDBREAKING IN ITS 2016-06-24 16:01:17.258 AESTHETIC, GORDON DAVIDSON, WHO 2016-06-24 16:01:21.303 WAS THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, SAW 2016-06-24 16:01:23.352 IT AND DECIDED TO PRODUCE IT ON 2016-06-24 16:01:26.378 THE TAPER STAGE. 2016-06-24 16:01:26.38 AT THAT POINT IN THE 38 YEAR 2016-06-24 16:01:30.38 HISTORY, THE TAPER HAD NEVER 2016-06-24 16:01:32.384 PRODUCED A SHOW FROM ONE OF THE 2016-06-24 16:01:34.382 SMALL THEATERS IN LOS ANGELES. 2016-06-24 16:01:37.389 IT WAS A FIRST IN MANY WAYS. 2016-06-24 16:01:42.382 IT THEN OF COURSE WENT ON TO 2016-06-24 16:01:44.378 REPRODUCE ON BROADWAY AND ONTO 2016-06-24 16:01:46.38 THE TONY'S. 2016-06-24 16:01:47.385 BILL IS NOT THE NEA, SENIOR 2016-06-24 16:01:53.457 INNOVATION ADVISER TO THE 2016-06-24 16:01:53.458 CHAIRMAN. 2016-06-24 16:01:53.46 SO I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE TO 2016-06-24 16:01:56.381 YOU ALL, THE INNOVATOR THAT HE 2016-06-24 16:01:59.38 IS, BILL O'BRIEN. 2016-06-24 16:02:01.378 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:02:02.379 BILL: HELLO. 2016-06-24 16:02:10.421 IT IS GREAT TO BE BACK. 2016-06-24 16:02:12.422 I JUST HAVE ONE TECHNICAL THING 2016-06-24 16:02:17.421 I NEED TO SAY. 2016-06-24 16:02:18.421 I AM HERE REALLY TODAY TO 2016-06-24 16:02:20.427 PRESENT AN AWARD TO DEAF WEST 2016-06-24 16:02:25.423 THEATER, THE PETER ZEISLER 2016-06-24 16:02:26.427 MEMORIAL AWARD. 2016-06-24 16:02:28.465 OUR ETHICS OFFICE REQUIRES ME TO 2016-06-24 16:02:31.503 BE CLEAR, TO AVOID ANY 2016-06-24 16:02:32.505 FAVORITISM, I AM NOT HERE AS A 2016-06-24 16:02:34.505 REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NATIONAL 2016-06-24 16:02:36.504 ENDOWMENT. 2016-06-24 16:02:36.506 BUT THAT IS OK, BECAUSE I AM 2016-06-24 16:02:39.503 HERE AS ONE OF THE MILLION 2016-06-24 16:02:41.505 PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE 2016-06-24 16:02:44.505 SHOW AND HAVE FOUND THE 2016-06-24 16:02:45.503 EXPERIENCE TO BE LIFE-CHANGING 2016-06-24 16:02:47.507 AND MIND BLOWING. 2016-06-24 16:02:49.515 THE PETER ZEISLER MEMORIAL AWARD 2016-06-24 16:02:54.55 IS TO BE GIVEN OUT EVERY YEAR TO 2016-06-24 16:02:59.55 A THEATER COMPANY THAT 2016-06-24 16:03:00.549 DEMONSTRATES INNOVATION AND 2016-06-24 16:03:03.549 NONTRADITIONAL PRACTICES, 2016-06-24 16:03:04.552 ADVANCES FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, 2016-06-24 16:03:06.549 AND TO HONOR A THEATER THAT HAS 2016-06-24 16:03:09.6 NOT BEEN FULLY RECOGNIZED BY THE 2016-06-24 16:03:10.604 FIELD. 2016-06-24 16:03:11.6 I THINK THAT DEATH -- DEAF WEST 2016-06-24 16:03:16.6 IS A FANTASTIC RECIPIENT FOR 2016-06-24 16:03:18.6 THIS KIND OF AWARD. 2016-06-24 16:03:20.6 THIRD ITEM, IT MIGHT SOUND A 2016-06-24 16:03:26.639 LITTLE FUNNY AT FIRST, BECAUSE 2016-06-24 16:03:28.638 THEY HAVE BEEN ON BROADWAY TWICE 2016-06-24 16:03:31.634 . 2016-06-24 16:03:31.635 THEY HAVE WON A SPECIAL AWARD 2016-06-24 16:03:33.639 FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE THEATER. 2016-06-24 16:03:33.64 AND A COUPLE OF TONY 2016-06-24 16:03:36.676 NOMINATIONS. 2016-06-24 16:03:36.678 IT HAS BEEN BACK ON BROADWAY 2016-06-24 16:03:38.714 THIS PAST YEAR AND HAD A 2016-06-24 16:03:40.713 NOMINATION. 2016-06-24 16:03:40.715 BUT HAVING HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO 2016-06-24 16:03:44.715 SERVE AS A MANAGING DIRECTOR AND 2016-06-24 16:03:46.716 PRODUCER DIRECTOR THERE FOR SIX 2016-06-24 16:03:46.718 YEARS, I KNOW IT WAS THE TUBE OF 2016-06-24 16:03:49.758 THE ICEBERG. 2016-06-24 16:03:50.756 -- TIP OF THE ICEBERG. 2016-06-24 16:03:52.76 IT WAS MOSTLY A SMALL 2016-06-24 16:03:58.763 THEATER IN 2016-06-24 16:03:58.765 LOS ANGELES AND I WAS PRIVILEGED 2016-06-24 16:03:59.804 TO BE ABLE TO REALLY WATCH HOW 2016-06-24 16:04:00.803 THAT, THE SECRET SAUCE 2016-06-24 16:04:05.849 WAS BAKED 2016-06-24 16:04:05.851 INTO THE APPROACH THAT THEY DO. 2016-06-24 16:04:06.851 IT INVOLVES SO MUCH COMMITMENT, 2016-06-24 16:04:09.853 SO MUCH INSIGHT. 2016-06-24 16:04:11.854 IF YOU THINK ABOUT THEATER AS A 2016-06-24 16:04:13.894 PLACE WHERE WE COME AROUND TO 2016-06-24 16:04:14.853 SHARE IDEAS IN A COMMUNAL WAY, 2016-06-24 16:04:17.854 THE PROCESS THAT THEY HAVE 2016-06-24 16:04:18.885 DEVELOPED OVER THE YEARS 2016-06-24 16:04:20.884 REQUIRES THAT EVERY ACTOR ON 2016-06-24 16:04:23.924 STAGE UNPACKS EVERY IDEA AND 2016-06-24 16:04:26.924 TRANSLATES IT THAT ALLOWS 2016-06-24 16:04:30.923 EVERYBODY TO BE ON THE SAME 2016-06-24 16:04:31.926 PAGE, INCLUDING AUDIENCE 2016-06-24 16:04:32.924 MEMBERS. 2016-06-24 16:04:32.925 AND IT IS REALLY WHAT ATTRACTED 2016-06-24 16:04:35.923 ME TO DEAF WEST IN THE FIRST 2016-06-24 16:04:40.977 PLACE. 2016-06-24 16:04:40.979 HOW MANY HAVE SEEN A PRODUCTION? 2016-06-24 16:04:42.97 THAT IS GREAT. 2016-06-24 16:04:45.082 WHAT ATTRACTED ME TO IT, I MET 2016-06-24 16:04:48.019 THE FOUNDING PRODUCER THERE, WAS 2016-06-24 16:04:51.016 HOW CLEAR IT WAS TO ME IN MY 2016-06-24 16:04:53.011 FIRST CONVERSATION WITH HIM THAT 2016-06-24 16:04:55.007 HE WAS NOT AT ALL INTERESTED IN 2016-06-24 16:04:57.01 CREATING A THEATER THAT WOULD 2016-06-24 16:05:00.008 ALLOW PEOPLE TO COME IN AS SOME 2016-06-24 16:05:02.009 SORT OF CHARITY, TO DO A LITTLE 2016-06-24 16:05:05.013 PAT ON THE HEAD TO THOSE 2016-06-24 16:05:08.054 HANDICAPS THAT CANDIDATE IF HE 2016-06-24 16:05:10.055 CAME IN -- THAT CAN. 2016-06-24 16:05:12.104 IF YOU CAME IN WITH THAT 2016-06-24 16:05:14.104 ATTITUDE, YOU WOULD GO TO 2016-06-24 16:05:16.104 ANOTHER SEAT. 2016-06-24 16:05:16.106 I THINK WHAT YOU REALLY WANTED 2016-06-24 16:05:18.104 TO DO WAS A RACE WHAT HE'S OUT 2016-06-24 16:05:20.106 -- ERASE WHAT YOU THOUGHT COMING 2016-06-24 16:05:23.109 IN THE DOOR. 2016-06-24 16:05:25.108 OR HEARING PEOPLE THAT WERE 2016-06-24 16:05:27.106 CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT THEY MIGHT BE 2016-06-24 16:05:28.104 INCURRED -- ENCOUNTERING. 2016-06-24 16:05:30.154 IT REALLY LET YOU IMMERSE 2016-06-24 16:05:32.178 YOURSELF IN THE KIND OF DEEPLY 2016-06-24 16:05:35.177 COMMITTED, HIGHLY EXPRESSIVE, 2016-06-24 16:05:37.177 FORM OF THEATER THAT NOBODY ELSE 2016-06-24 16:05:40.176 THAT I HAVE SEEN, CAN DO. 2016-06-24 16:05:42.182 I WAS HONORED TO BE ABLE TO 2016-06-24 16:05:44.18 WATCH THE WORK OF EDGEWATER 2016-06-24 16:05:46.18 STREET, -- ED WATERSTREET, THE 2016-06-24 16:05:54.225 CAST OF BIG RIVER, THE CAP OF -- 2016-06-24 16:05:57.253 CAST OF SPRING AWAKENING. 2016-06-24 16:05:59.24 AND TO WATCH THAT APPROACH TO 2016-06-24 16:06:03.219 THEATER MAKING, IT IS MORE 2016-06-24 16:06:05.219 DEEPLY FELT, IT IS MORE MOVING, 2016-06-24 16:06:07.225 IT IS MORE EXPRESSIVE. 2016-06-24 16:06:09.22 IT IS THE FURTHEST THING FROM 2016-06-24 16:06:11.228 BEING HANDICAP. 2016-06-24 16:06:12.221 IN FACT, THIS BECAME PAINFULLY 2016-06-24 16:06:16.22 AWARE FOR ME WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO 2016-06-24 16:06:19.218 PERFORM ALONGSIDE THE ACTORS IN 2016-06-24 16:06:23.218 TRUE WEST. 2016-06-24 16:06:24.219 I LEFT THAT EXPERIENCE GOING, 2016-06-24 16:06:29.227 THE FEELING OF THAT THEY HAD AN 2016-06-24 16:06:30.221 UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OF THEIR. 2016-06-24 16:06:31.22 SO DEAF WEST HAS 2016-06-24 16:06:37.225 EXPERIENCED THE 2016-06-24 16:06:37.226 BEST OF TIMES AND THE WORST OF 2016-06-24 16:06:38.22 TIMES. 2016-06-24 16:06:38.221 I WAS THERE FOR A LITTLE BIT OF 2016-06-24 16:06:40.22 BOTH. 2016-06-24 16:06:40.221 WE WERE A SMALL THEATER IN 2016-06-24 16:06:44.219 HOLLYWOOD, WE WENT TO BROADWAY, 2016-06-24 16:06:46.22 THEN THERE WERE SUBSEQUENT TORS 2016-06-24 16:06:49.23 -- TOURS, AND AT THE HEIGHT OF 2016-06-24 16:06:51.224 THAT SUCCESS WE ALSO FOUND THAT 2016-06-24 16:06:54.224 SUMMARY HAD TAKEN A RED PEN AND 2016-06-24 16:06:57.223 PUT A LINE ACROSS THE LINE ITEM 2016-06-24 16:06:59.221 THAT WAS FUNDING, AND IT WAS A 2016-06-24 16:07:02.263 SURPRISE OF THE NIGHT, IT WAS A 2016-06-24 16:07:04.267 SURPRISE BIT OF NEWS, LOSING 2016-06-24 16:07:05.273 HALF OF OUR FUNDING. 2016-06-24 16:07:07.264 I WAS DEEPLY CONCERNED, VERY 2016-06-24 16:07:10.275 WORRIED THAT I MIGHT BRING TO AN 2016-06-24 16:07:12.265 END 30 YEARS OF HARD WORK AND 2016-06-24 16:07:16.264 DEDICATION. 2016-06-24 16:07:16.266 BUT I THINK THAT WE SHOULD BE 2016-06-24 16:07:19.269 CONCERNED, BUT WE SHOULD NOT 2016-06-24 16:07:21.268 WORRY TOO MUCH, BECAUSE AS WE 2016-06-24 16:07:23.312 HAVE ALL SEEN BY THE 2016-06-24 16:07:26.356 DEMONSTRATION OF IT BECOMING, 2016-06-24 16:07:27.357 RISING UP AGAIN TO BE BACK ON 2016-06-24 16:07:31.406 BROADWAY, THAT WORKED -- THAT WO 2016-06-24 16:07:33.41 RK THAT THEY DO IS TOO GOOD TO 2016-06-24 16:07:36.407 GO AWAY. 2016-06-24 16:07:36.408 IT MUST NOT GO AWAY, IT WILL NOT 2016-06-24 16:07:39.404 GO AWAY. 2016-06-24 16:07:39.406 IT IS SIMPLY TOO GOOD. 2016-06-24 16:07:41.435 IT IS MY GREAT HONOR TO PRESENT 2016-06-24 16:07:44.439 TO DJ KURS 2016-06-24 16:07:49.515 , ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, 2016-06-24 16:07:49.517 DEAF WEST THEATRE, THIS YEAR'S 2016-06-24 16:07:54.515 PETER ZEISLER MEMORIAL AWARD. 2016-06-24 16:07:56.516 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:07:56.517 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:08:05.524 >> THANK YOU, BILL. 2016-06-24 16:08:23.594 AND THANK YOU TCG. 2016-06-24 16:08:26.556 DEAF WEST THEATER IS TRULY 2016-06-24 16:08:29.555 HONORED TO RECEIVE THIS AWARD. 2016-06-24 16:08:31.627 AS BILL MENTIONED, WE ARE A 2016-06-24 16:08:35.605 SMALL THEATER COMPANY FROM LOS 2016-06-24 16:08:36.609 ANGELES THAT WAS FOUNDED 25 2016-06-24 16:08:38.605 YEARS AGO BY DEAF ACTORS THAT 2016-06-24 16:08:41.659 WANTED TO MAKE GOOD THEATER. 2016-06-24 16:08:45.655 AS I STAND BEFORE YOU I SPEAK IN 2016-06-24 16:08:46.656 MY NATIVE LINGUIST, AMERICAN 2016-06-24 16:08:49.655 SIGN LANGUAGE -- LANGUAGE, 2016-06-24 16:08:52.658 AMERICAN FAMILY WITH. 2016-06-24 16:08:52.668 OUR LANGUAGES THE ONLY THING 2016-06-24 16:08:56.687 THAT SEPARATES YOU AND ME. 2016-06-24 16:08:57.71 IN THEATER THAT IS PERFORMED IN 2016-06-24 16:09:01.688 ASL, BRIDGES THIS DIVIDE. 2016-06-24 16:09:03.684 THE AUDIENCE BECOMES ONE FOR TWO 2016-06-24 16:09:07.69 HOURS IN THE DARK. 2016-06-24 16:09:08.685 THEATER IS A REMARKABLY 2016-06-24 16:09:15.684 EFFECTIVE VEHICLE FOR 2016-06-24 16:09:18.767 ILLUMINATING THE HIDDEN MARGINS 2016-06-24 16:09:20.765 OF OUR WORLD. 2016-06-24 16:09:21.765 INCREASED 2016-06-24 16:09:32.77 INCLUSION PROPELS OUR 2016-06-24 16:09:32.772 CRAFT TOWARD NEW ARTISTIC 2016-06-24 16:09:33.77 HEIGHTS. 2016-06-24 16:09:35.769 DEAF WEST'S TRACK RECORD AS A 2016-06-24 16:09:39.808 THEATER COMPANY IS TIED TO NEW 2016-06-24 16:09:41.818 MEANINGS THAT FINALLY WAS, ARE 2016-06-24 16:09:45.809 STAGING AND ARE ACTORS BRING TO 2016-06-24 16:09:47.809 THE MATERIAL. 2016-06-24 16:09:48.808 THE HISTORY OF FAMILY -- EMILY 2016-06-24 16:09:53.809 WAS THEATER IS YOUNG, WITH ANY 2016-06-24 16:09:54.807 LUCK -- SIGN LANGUAGE THEATER 2016-06-24 16:09:59.818 IS 2016-06-24 16:09:59.819 YOUNG AND WITH ANY LUCK, IT WILL 2016-06-24 16:10:00.813 GO UPWARD. 2016-06-24 16:10:00.814 WE HAVE IRRESPONSIBILITY TO 2016-06-24 16:10:04.855 ADVANCE OUR ART -AND RIPPING- 2016-06-24 16:10:09.908 -- AND WE MUST DO THIS TOGETHER. 2016-06-24 16:10:13.909 THANK YOU ALL. 2016-06-24 16:10:14.908 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:10:15.906 >> I NOW HAVE THE PLEASURE OF 2016-06-24 16:10:32.906 INTRODUCING TWO OUTSTANDING 2016-06-24 16:10:34.905 WRITERS. 2016-06-24 16:10:35.91 NICOLE SALTER IS AN 2016-06-24 16:10:39.909 AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS AND WRITER 2016-06-24 16:10:40.907 WHO ARRIVED ON THE PROFESSIONAL 2016-06-24 16:10:41.909 SAYING WITH HER COAUTHORSHIP -- 2016-06-24 16:10:43.938 SCENE OF HER COAUTHORSHIP OF THE 2016-06-24 16:10:47.98 PLAY, CONTINUE ON. 2016-06-24 16:10:48.986 SHE HAS WRITTEN SIX LANES PLAYS 2016-06-24 16:10:52.978 -- FULL-LENGTH PLAYS AND WAS 2016-06-24 16:10:55.98 RECENTLY SEEN IN THE PREMIER OF 2016-06-24 16:10:57.978 HEAD OF PASSAGE. 2016-06-24 16:10:58.981 SHE IS ALSO THE COFOUNDER OF THE 2016-06-24 16:11:00.978 CONTINUUM PRODUCT, A NONPROFIT 2016-06-24 16:11:03.98 ORGANIZATION THAT CREATES 2016-06-24 16:11:06.983 INNOVATIVE ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING 2016-06-24 16:11:06.984 FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AND 2016-06-24 16:11:06.986 ENRICHMENT. 2016-06-24 16:11:07.978 STEPHEN KAREM IS THE OTHER OF 2016-06-24 16:11:12.02 THE TONY AWARD WINNING PLAY, THE 2016-06-24 16:11:14.02 HUMANS, FOR WHICH HE ALSO 2016-06-24 16:11:16.022 RECEIVED THE DRAMA CRITICS 2016-06-24 16:11:19.02 CIRCLE AWARD, DRAMA AWARD, IT 2016-06-24 16:11:22.024 WAS A 2016. 2016-06-24 16:11:23.021 PRIZE-WINNING ANALYST. 2016-06-24 16:11:25.02 HE ALSO WROTE SON OF THE PROFIT 2016-06-24 16:11:29.02 AND WAS A FINALIST FOR THE 2012 2016-06-24 16:11:31.024 HOLES OR PRIZE. 2016-06-24 16:11:31.025 AND " SPEECH AND DEBATE, WHICH 2016-06-24 16:11:37.157 -- PLEASE WELCOME TO THE DCG 2016-06-24 16:11:39.157 STAGE -- TCG STATE, NICOLE AND 2016-06-24 16:11:44.157 STEVE. 2016-06-24 16:11:45.157 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:11:45.158 >> HELLO. 2016-06-24 16:11:58.189 HOW EXCITING. 2016-06-24 16:11:59.187 HOW ARE YOU? >> I AM -- HOW ARE 2016-06-24 16:12:04.185 YOU? 2016-06-24 16:12:05.186 >> I AM HAPPY TO BE HERE. 2016-06-24 16:12:07.193 I AM A FAN OF YEARS. 2016-06-24 16:12:09.192 >> DO NOT EVEN DO THAT. 2016-06-24 16:12:11.189 MR. TONY WINNER. 2016-06-24 16:12:13.191 HOW DOES IT FEEL? 2016-06-24 16:12:15.189 >> I JUST SPILLED WATER ALL OVER 2016-06-24 16:12:19.228 MYSELF. 2016-06-24 16:12:19.23 >> LET'S GET HIM SOMETHING. 2016-06-24 16:12:21.236 >> I NEED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 2016-06-24 16:12:24.229 IT IS GOOD. 2016-06-24 16:12:25.232 I AM AN INTROVERT, SO I FEEL 2016-06-24 16:12:26.235 LIKE, I FEEL LIKE THE 2016-06-24 16:12:33.237 WHOLE WAVE 2016-06-24 16:12:33.239 OF AWARD SEASON, I WAS SAYING, 2016-06-24 16:12:36.234 IT FEELS LIKE -- ONCE YOU GET TO 2016-06-24 16:12:39.23 OPENING NIGHT AND YOU MAKE 2016-06-24 16:12:41.351 SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE PROUD OF, 2016-06-24 16:12:42.306 THAT MEANS SOMETHING TO YOU AND 2016-06-24 16:12:43.28 IS REACHING PEOPLE, THAT FEELS 2016-06-24 16:12:45.302 LIKE THE ACTUAL 2016-06-24 16:12:46.276 >> THAT IS THE REWARD. 2016-06-24 16:12:49.279 >> THE HIGHEST HIGH. 2016-06-24 16:12:51.313 SO GETTING THE STICKERS OF 2016-06-24 16:12:55.287 ACHIEVEMENT, IT IS A SORT OF, IT 2016-06-24 16:12:59.278 IS EXCITING AND OVERWHELMING AND 2016-06-24 16:13:01.572 THRILLING, BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU 2016-06-24 16:13:02.324 MORE LIFE WITH THE PLAY AND IF 2016-06-24 16:13:06.381 YOU LIKE IT COULD REACH MORE 2016-06-24 16:13:07.412 PEOPLE. 2016-06-24 16:13:07.413 >> I JUST FINISHED WORKING AT 2016-06-24 16:13:11.39 YIELD, -- YALE, A LEADERSHIP 2016-06-24 16:13:15.364 CONFERENCE, AND GUESS WHOSE PLAY 2016-06-24 16:13:18.369 THEY ARE USING. 2016-06-24 16:13:19.402 YOUR'S. 2016-06-24 16:13:21.425 >> I ALMOST SAID AMY HERZOG. 2016-06-24 16:13:26.409 >> AND HERS. 2016-06-24 16:13:28.41 BUT THEY ARE DOING YOUR PLAY. 2016-06-24 16:13:29.41 THE RIPPLE EFFECTS OF YOUR WORK, 2016-06-24 16:13:33.411 THAT YOU DO NOT GET TO SEE, DO 2016-06-24 16:13:34.408 YOU CONSIDER THAT? 2016-06-24 16:13:35.41 >> NOW I AM CONSIDERING IT. 2016-06-24 16:13:38.443 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:13:38.444 >> I THINK ABOUT IT MORE AND 2016-06-24 16:13:40.443 MORE BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THE 2016-06-24 16:13:42.444 OLDER I GET, THE MORE CONSCIOUS 2016-06-24 16:13:44.441 I AM, I THINK BACK TO THE PLACE 2016-06-24 16:13:47.443 THAT HAVE MEANT A LOT FOR ME AND 2016-06-24 16:13:50.442 HAVE BROUGHT -- ROCKED MY 2016-06-24 16:13:54.442 WORLD. 2016-06-24 16:13:54.444 MY LIFE HAS BEEN CHANGED. 2016-06-24 16:13:57.46 SO THE LONGER AND MORE STUFF YOU 2016-06-24 16:14:00.441 MAKE, THE MORE YOU HAVE A CHANCE 2016-06-24 16:14:02.483 TO MAKE A STORY LIKE THAT. 2016-06-24 16:14:02.485 OR MEET SOMEONE. 2016-06-24 16:14:06.447 OR GET A FACEBOOK MESSAGE. 2016-06-24 16:14:07.442 >> A RANDOM FACEBOOK MESSAGE. 2016-06-24 16:14:10.441 >> A RANDOM FACEBOOK MESSAGE. 2016-06-24 16:14:12.489 >> TELL US ABOUT YOUR PLAY. 2016-06-24 16:14:15.487 >> I WAS TALKING TO NICOLE 2016-06-24 16:14:19.513 YESTERDAY, I HAD JUST RECEIVED A 2016-06-24 16:14:21.492 MESSAGE FROM A LOVELY MAN WHO 2016-06-24 16:14:22.487 WAS HARVARD EDUCATED AND SAID, I 2016-06-24 16:14:26.486 JUST CAME BACK FROM YOUR PLAY 2016-06-24 16:14:28.488 AND I LIKED IT VERY MUCH, HERE 2016-06-24 16:14:30.487 ARE FIVE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO 2016-06-24 16:14:32.489 MAKE IT BETTER. 2016-06-24 16:14:32.49 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:14:32.492 >> YOU HAVE TO LOVE FACEBOOK. 2016-06-24 16:14:35.541 >> SO, I THOUGHT THAT KIND OF 2016-06-24 16:14:39.526 SUMS UP A KIND OF TALK BACK 2016-06-24 16:14:42.527 EXPERIENCE. 2016-06-24 16:14:42.528 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:14:43.524 >> THAT IS GREAT. 2016-06-24 16:14:45.526 SO, I KNOW THAT YOU WERE A 2016-06-24 16:14:47.525 THEATER KID. 2016-06-24 16:14:48.526 WE WILL DELVE IN THAT DIRECTION. 2016-06-24 16:14:50.527 >> I WOULD LIKE TO TAG ONTO THE 2016-06-24 16:14:53.528 QUESTION, BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN 2016-06-24 16:14:56.527 ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN TERMS OF 2016-06-24 16:14:59.525 -- YOU HAVE NOT ALWAYS BEEN A 2016-06-24 16:15:00.528 PART OF, YOUR DISCOVERY OF YOUR 2016-06-24 16:15:03.538 WORK IN DIFFERENT PLACES, HAVE 2016-06-24 16:15:06.526 YOU BEEN SURPRISED? 2016-06-24 16:15:08.54 >> I AM SURPRISED TODAY. 2016-06-24 16:15:10.526 ONE OF MY STUDENTS FROM ZIMBABWE 2016-06-24 16:15:14.535 WAS HERE. 2016-06-24 16:15:14.536 GETTING -- GIDEON. 2016-06-24 16:15:17.526 I WALKED IN AND I SAID, GIDEON? 2016-06-24 16:15:21.526 HE SAID, PROFESSOR. 2016-06-24 16:15:23.527 I SAID, NO. 2016-06-24 16:15:25.526 I AM THE COLD. 2016-06-24 16:15:26.533 MY PROFESSOR. 2016-06-24 16:15:27.525 -- NICOLE. 2016-06-24 16:15:29.526 I AM PROFESSOR. 2016-06-24 16:15:31.525 I AM OFTEN STOPPED BY YOUNG 2016-06-24 16:15:35.531 WOMEN WHO USE MY PLAY FOR 2016-06-24 16:15:39.534 AUDITIONING, TO GET INTO THE 2016-06-24 16:15:39.536 BUSINESS WITH MY WORK. 2016-06-24 16:15:41.525 THAT ALWAYS FLOORS ME. 2016-06-24 16:15:43.532 BECAUSE I REMEMBER THOSE 2016-06-24 16:15:45.569 MONOLOGUES BOOKS, FILTERING 2016-06-24 16:15:47.57 THROUGH EITHER HOPING THAT 2016-06-24 16:15:48.569 PEOPLE LIKE ME. 2016-06-24 16:15:49.571 I THINK I DID -- 2016-06-24 16:15:52.57 >> PART OF IT WAS PART OF THE 2016-06-24 16:15:55.569 GENESIS. 2016-06-24 16:15:55.571 BECAUSE YOU MADE IT WHEN YOU ARE 2016-06-24 16:15:58.611 IN SCHOOL. 2016-06-24 16:15:59.618 >> A STUDENT. 2016-06-24 16:16:01.61 IT MAKES ME FEEL THE IMPACT THAT 2016-06-24 16:16:03.613 YOU DO NOT DO CURATE, SOMETIMES 2016-06-24 16:16:07.613 MIX ME FEEL LIKE -- MAKES ME 2016-06-24 16:16:11.619 FEEL LIKE -- I FEEL LIKE I AM A 2016-06-24 16:16:15.663 HARD WORKER AND SO MUCH OF WHAT 2016-06-24 16:16:17.661 I EXPERIENCED IS OUT OF MY 2016-06-24 16:16:19.677 CONTROL. 2016-06-24 16:16:20.663 SO I FEEL LIKE, HOW DID THAT 2016-06-24 16:16:23.661 HAPPEN? 2016-06-24 16:16:24.664 >> WOULD YOU WANT TO CURATE IT? 2016-06-24 16:16:27.661 >> I DO NOT THINK I WOULD. 2016-06-24 16:16:29.661 BUT WHEN I MAKE A GRILLED CHEESE 2016-06-24 16:16:32.674 SANDWICH, I KNOW WHERE I GOT 2016-06-24 16:16:33.698 THIS CHEESE, THE BREAD, I OWN 2016-06-24 16:16:37.696 METHOD IT IS GOOD. 2016-06-24 16:16:38.697 -- THAT. 2016-06-24 16:16:40.711 IT IS GOOD. 2016-06-24 16:16:41.699 THAT -- THERE IS SOMETHING 2016-06-24 16:16:48.697 ABOUT 2016-06-24 16:16:48.698 WORDS ON THE PAGE, LIVING BEYOND 2016-06-24 16:16:49.754 YOUR IMAGINATION. 2016-06-24 16:16:49.755 IT IS LIKE SHAKESPEARE, HE WOULD 2016-06-24 16:16:51.78 MAKE IT TO SOUTH-CENTRAL LOS 2016-06-24 16:16:56.778 ANGELES. 2016-06-24 16:16:56.779 I WONDER WHAT HIS RESPONSE WOULD 2016-06-24 16:16:58.78 BE. 2016-06-24 16:16:58.781 >> I AM ADAPTING THE CHERRY 2016-06-24 16:17:02.781 ORCHARD NOW AND I HAVE DONE A 2016-06-24 16:17:04.782 VERSION FOR FILM, AND THE 2016-06-24 16:17:07.781 ACCOUNTS OF THAT FIRST 2016-06-24 16:17:09.78 PRODUCTION. 2016-06-24 16:17:10.78 CHECK OFF -- CHEKH 2016-06-24 16:17:16.86 OV, IT WAS AN 2016-06-24 16:17:16.862 ENORMOUS FAILURE, SO YOU CANNOT, 2016-06-24 16:17:20.868 OR IT IS HARD TO KNOW WHAT THE 2016-06-24 16:17:22.868 LASTING LEGACY WOULD BE. 2016-06-24 16:17:23.899 BUT IT IS ALSO INTERESTING THAT 2016-06-24 16:17:26.868 WE ARE CONTROL FREAKS, IN A 2016-06-24 16:17:29.91 MEDIUM, BUT WE ARE DRAWN TO A 2016-06-24 16:17:30.913 MEDIUM WHERE -- 2016-06-24 16:17:31.912 >> WHERE YOU HAVE NO CONTROL. 2016-06-24 16:17:34.928 >> AND YOU HAVE COLLABORATION. 2016-06-24 16:17:36.918 AND WE ARE DRAWN TO THAT. 2016-06-24 16:17:38.918 >> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE LACK OF 2016-06-24 16:17:41.916 CONTROL. 2016-06-24 16:17:41.918 >> UGH. 2016-06-24 16:17:43.962 DO NOT LIKE IT. 2016-06-24 16:17:45.963 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:17:45.964 >> THERE IS A LACK OF CONTROL 2016-06-24 16:17:48.964 FROM THE BEGINNING. 2016-06-24 16:17:48.965 PEOPLE THINK, YOU WROTE IT. 2016-06-24 16:17:51.968 MY HUSBAND SAYS TO ME, I AM 2016-06-24 16:17:54.968 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A PLOT LINE 2016-06-24 16:17:56.996 OR A CHARACTER ARC AND HE DOES 2016-06-24 16:17:58.995 NOT GET THAT I DO NOT FEEL LIKE 2016-06-24 16:18:02.03 I AM MANIPULATING IT. 2016-06-24 16:18:04.031 HE SAYS, MAKE IT WHATEVER YOU 2016-06-24 16:18:06.036 WANT. 2016-06-24 16:18:06.038 SHE ENDED UP ON THE PLANE. 2016-06-24 16:18:08.029 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:18:09.032 >> BUT HOW DID SHE GET THERE? 2016-06-24 16:18:12.031 HE SAYS, IT DOES NOT MATTER. 2016-06-24 16:18:14.03 JUST PUT HER ON THE PLANE. 2016-06-24 16:18:17.035 HE SAYS, I DO NOT GET IT. 2016-06-24 16:18:19.036 ARE YOU READY TO PLAY -- WR 2016-06-24 16:18:24.168 ITING 2016-06-24 16:18:24.169 THE PLAY? 2016-06-24 16:18:25.168 I CANNOT EXPLAIN THE LACK OF 2016-06-24 16:18:28.164 CONTROL. 2016-06-24 16:18:28.166 I DO HAVE A WAY OF THINKING 2016-06-24 16:18:31.187 ABOUT IT, BUT I ACTUALLY -- IT 2016-06-24 16:18:32.169 IS A SCARY PROCESS. 2016-06-24 16:18:34.168 >> AND WHEN YOU HAVE THE 2016-06-24 16:18:36.219 CLEAREST IDEAS AS A STARTING 2016-06-24 16:18:38.221 POINT, BY THE TIME YOU REACH THE 2016-06-24 16:18:41.217 FINISH LINE, I KNOW FOR ME IT 2016-06-24 16:18:43.217 SOMETIMES CHANGES SO MUCH THAT 2016-06-24 16:18:45.216 SOMETIMES THEY RECEIVED INTO THE 2016-06-24 16:18:49.218 BACKGROUND -- RECEDE INTO THE 2016-06-24 16:18:52.217 BACKGROUND SO MUCH, SUDDENLY A 2016-06-24 16:18:55.241 PLAY YOU THOUGHT WAS ABOUT 2016-06-24 16:18:57.243 POLITICAL ACTION, YOU HAVE 2016-06-24 16:18:58.242 WRITTEN SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 2016-06-24 16:18:59.241 >> COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. 2016-06-24 16:19:01.241 >> THE PLAY TAKES CONTROL. 2016-06-24 16:19:04.287 BUT I LOVE THAT. 2016-06-24 16:19:05.335 DON'T YOU LOVE THAT KIND OF -- 2016-06-24 16:19:08.282 >> I LOVE IT WHEN IT WORKS. 2016-06-24 16:19:10.284 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:19:11.288 >> I GUESS I DO NOT ALWAYS 2016-06-24 16:19:16.297 -- IT 2016-06-24 16:19:16.298 IS A PROCESS THAT MAKES ME 2016-06-24 16:19:19.286 LAUGH, BECAUSE WHEN YOU STEP 2016-06-24 16:19:20.284 BACK AFTER YOU HAVE DONE IT A 2016-06-24 16:19:22.288 COUPLE TIMES, THIS IS THE PART 2016-06-24 16:19:25.301 WHERE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU DO NOT 2016-06-24 16:19:27.289 KNOW WHERE YOU ARE DOING -- WHAT 2016-06-24 16:19:29.327 YOU ARE DOING GOOD BUT IT IS -- 2016-06-24 16:19:32.42 WHAT YOU ARE DOING. 2016-06-24 16:19:32.421 >> AND IF YOU LIKE YOU WILL 2016-06-24 16:19:36.42 NEVER BE ABLE TO DO IT AGAIN. 2016-06-24 16:19:37.497 AND IT HAPPENS AGAIN SOMEHOW. 2016-06-24 16:19:39.43 >> I FEEL GOOD EVERY TIME I 2016-06-24 16:19:42.418 START SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING 2016-06-24 16:19:45.468 IN ME FEELING LIKE I HAVE NEVER 2016-06-24 16:19:47.47 DONE IT BEFORE. 2016-06-24 16:19:47.471 I WAS IN CLEVELAND, TALKING TO 2016-06-24 16:19:50.469 ERIC. 2016-06-24 16:19:51.469 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:19:52.47 >> AND HE HAD A WONDERFUL 2016-06-24 16:19:54.468 ANALOGY. 2016-06-24 16:19:55.469 HE SAID, EVERY TIME HE WRITES A 2016-06-24 16:19:59.47 PLAY HE FEELS LIKE HE HAD -- IS 2016-06-24 16:20:03.493 CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN. 2016-06-24 16:20:04.492 AND HE MUST CREATE A PATH SO 2016-06-24 16:20:07.492 THAT OTHER PEOPLE CAN CLIMB THE 2016-06-24 16:20:09.492 MOUNTAIN THAT IS -- CLIMB THE 2016-06-24 16:20:12.492 MOUNTAIN. 2016-06-24 16:20:12.493 AND THAT IS THE STORY. 2016-06-24 16:20:13.596 AND YOU GET TO A PART WITH THE 2016-06-24 16:20:16.543 GRIPS, HOW DO I WANT TO CLIMB 2016-06-24 16:20:19.546 THE MOUNTAIN? 2016-06-24 16:20:19.547 AND YOU GET HALFWAY AND IF YOU 2016-06-24 16:20:22.536 LIKE, I NEED TO FINISH NOW. 2016-06-24 16:20:24.55 I AM NOT GOING BACK DOWN THE 2016-06-24 16:20:26.536 MOUND. 2016-06-24 16:20:26.537 AND YOU GET TO THE TOP AND YOU 2016-06-24 16:20:29.538 HAVE A VICTORY, BUT YOU REALIZE 2016-06-24 16:20:31.538 THAT THE PATH IS NOT CLEAR, SO 2016-06-24 16:20:34.537 YOU NEED TO GO BACK DOWN AND 2016-06-24 16:20:34.547 CLIMB THE PATH AGAIN MY CAR IT 2016-06-24 16:20:37.542 OUT. 2016-06-24 16:20:37.543 -- AGAIN, CARVED IT OUT. 2016-06-24 16:20:40.54 AND YOU THINK, THERE IS MY 2016-06-24 16:20:43.539 MOUND. 2016-06-24 16:20:43.541 AND YOU LOOK UP AND SEE THAT 2016-06-24 16:20:46.537 THERE ARE OTHER MOUNTS -- 2016-06-24 16:20:49.537 MOUNTAINS. 2016-06-24 16:20:49.539 AND YOU GET OFF AND YOU TRY TO 2016-06-24 16:20:51.536 CLIMB ANOTHER ONE. 2016-06-24 16:20:52.542 >> THAT IS INCREDIBLE. 2016-06-24 16:20:55.578 >> IT IS INCREDIBLE. 2016-06-24 16:20:57.579 I THINK I FEEL MORE LIKE A TIDAL 2016-06-24 16:21:00.62 WAVE IS APPROACHING. 2016-06-24 16:21:01.62 >> YOU ARE ALWAYS LEARNING TO 2016-06-24 16:21:03.619 WRITE THE PLAY THAT YOU ARE 2016-06-24 16:21:05.62 WRITING. 2016-06-24 16:21:05.621 >> YES. 2016-06-24 16:21:06.618 >> IT IS LIKE STARTING OVER THE 2016-06-24 16:21:09.618 FIRST TIME. 2016-06-24 16:21:09.619 BECAUSE YOU CRACKED ONE 2016-06-24 16:21:13.62 PARTICULAR STORY AND MANAGED TO 2016-06-24 16:21:15.621 FIND THE GENRE OR THE STRUCTURE, 2016-06-24 16:21:19.619 PLAYS ARE LIKE ALUMS. 2016-06-24 16:21:24.67 THAT IS -- POEMS. 2016-06-24 16:21:26.668 THAT IS WHAT MAKES THEM SO 2016-06-24 16:21:29.674 POWERFUL. 2016-06-24 16:21:29.675 YOU REALLY ARE, YOU HAVE ALL OF 2016-06-24 16:21:32.718 THE RULES IN THE WORLD, THERE 2016-06-24 16:21:35.719 ARE A LOT OF TOOLS IN THE 2016-06-24 16:21:36.717 TOOLBOX. 2016-06-24 16:21:37.718 IT A LOT I CAN BE TAUGHT AND 2016-06-24 16:21:40.717 SHARED, BUT THEN IT REALLY IS 2016-06-24 16:21:41.718 LIKE IN THE SAME WAY THAT I FEEL 2016-06-24 16:21:43.741 LIKE, I SAY TO MY STUDENTS, THE 2016-06-24 16:21:47.748 BEST PLAY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO 2016-06-24 16:21:48.746 WRITE IS THE PLAY THAT ONLY THEY 2016-06-24 16:21:50.749 CAN WRITE. 2016-06-24 16:21:51.751 IT IS NOT JUST A PHRASE, AS A 2016-06-24 16:21:55.748 TEACHER. 2016-06-24 16:21:55.75 IT IS ALSO LIKE WHEN YOU'RE 2016-06-24 16:21:57.748 STARTING FROM SCRATCH WITH AN 2016-06-24 16:21:58.748 IDEA, IT FEELS LIKE YOU HAVE TO 2016-06-24 16:22:01.757 FIGURE OUT HOW TO WRITE THIS 2016-06-24 16:22:02.749 PLAY. 2016-06-24 16:22:02.75 >> THIS STORY. 2016-06-24 16:22:04.748 >> THE OLD RULES DO NOT ALWAYS 2016-06-24 16:22:07.834 APPLY. 2016-06-24 16:22:07.835 YOU TAKE A STYLE WITH YOU, BUT 2016-06-24 16:22:10.833 YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING 2016-06-24 16:22:11.831 ABOUT. 2016-06-24 16:22:11.832 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:22:12.83 >> YES. 2016-06-24 16:22:14.832 >> YOU JUST THROW THEM AWAY 2016-06-24 16:22:19.831 SOMETIMES. 2016-06-24 16:22:20.839 >> IF IT WORKS, IT WORKS. 2016-06-24 16:22:23.831 WHAT ROLE IT WAS -- RULE IT WAS. 2016-06-24 16:22:27.831 SPEAKING OF TEACHERS, HOW DID 2016-06-24 16:22:30.874 YOU COME TO LEARN WHAT YOU KNOW? 2016-06-24 16:22:31.874 >> THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION. 2016-06-24 16:22:34.874 I FEEL IN THIS DAY AND AGE, IT 2016-06-24 16:22:38.872 IS NOT SO STRANGE, BUT IT IS 2016-06-24 16:22:42.873 STRANGE, BECAUSE A LOT OF 2016-06-24 16:22:42.874 CONTEMPORARIES HAVE GOTTEN MFA'S 2016-06-24 16:22:46.873 IN PLAYWRITING. 2016-06-24 16:22:47.874 THE FAMILY I GREW UP WITH, THERE 2016-06-24 16:22:50.919 WERE NO ARTISTS IN THE FAMILY. 2016-06-24 16:22:52.917 TO ME IT DID NOT FEEL LIKE 2016-06-24 16:22:54.97 SOMETHING THAT WAS FEASIBLE. 2016-06-24 16:22:55.967 SO I WAS A VERY SCARED 2016-06-24 16:22:59.004 UNDERGRADUATE, IN ENGLISH 2016-06-24 16:23:02.001 DEPARTMENT, DOING THEATER 2016-06-24 16:23:03.005 CONSTANTLY. 2016-06-24 16:23:03.007 CONSTANTLY. 2016-06-24 16:23:04.998 AND TAKING SO MANY THEATER 2016-06-24 16:23:05.997 CONCERT -- CLASSES THAT I ENDED 2016-06-24 16:23:08.999 UP MAJORING IN THEATER. 2016-06-24 16:23:11.006 AND ENGLISH. 2016-06-24 16:23:12.001 IN TERMS OF -- BASICALLY I TOOK 2016-06-24 16:23:16.998 THE STRANGE MESS OUT OF -- IN 2016-06-24 16:23:22.999 HUNTINGTON HAD GOOD ENOUGH -- I 2016-06-24 16:23:27 DID NOT THINK THAT I HAD GOOD 2016-06-24 16:23:27.001 ENOUGH PLAYS TO SUBMIT. 2016-06-24 16:23:29 AT 23, 24, 25, NOBODY HAS 2016-06-24 16:23:35.003 WRITTEN A GOOD AMERICAN PLAY. 2016-06-24 16:23:37.04 MAYBE A FEW PEOPLE HAVE. 2016-06-24 16:23:39.042 I WAS VERY TIMID, VERY SHY. 2016-06-24 16:23:42.043 I WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT 2016-06-24 16:23:45.043 WOULD LIKE, NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE 2016-06-24 16:23:47.04 OF OFFICE HOURS AND THOSE 2016-06-24 16:23:49.045 CONNECTIONS. 2016-06-24 16:23:50.045 BUT I KEPT WRITING PLAYS, I 2016-06-24 16:23:53.042 NEVER STOPPED, EVER. 2016-06-24 16:23:55.045 I WAS HIDING OUT IN A LAW FIRM 2016-06-24 16:23:58.043 FOR YEARS WHILE HE KEPT CREATING 2016-06-24 16:24:00.043 WORK. 2016-06-24 16:24:00.044 AND IN SOME WAYS IT WAS KIND OF 2016-06-24 16:24:03.096 AN EDUCATION THAT TURNED OUT TO 2016-06-24 16:24:05.086 BE, I THINK A LOT OF MY LAST TWO 2016-06-24 16:24:09.08 PLAYS WORK ON ANXIETY, AND 2016-06-24 16:24:14.09 EXISTENTIAL FEAR OF POVERTY IS 2016-06-24 16:24:16.087 ALL OVER THEM. 2016-06-24 16:24:16.088 AND I THINK A LOT OF THAT COMES 2016-06-24 16:24:18.086 FROM OTHER PLACES, BUT FROM 2016-06-24 16:24:21.113 BEING SCARED ABOUT STUDENT DEBT. 2016-06-24 16:24:23.081 AND IN SOME WAYS IT WAS A GIFT 2016-06-24 16:24:27.188 TO HAVE A DIRTY AREA WEEK -- 30 2016-06-24 16:24:30.131 HOUR A WEEK JOB, BECAUSE IT LET 2016-06-24 16:24:32.126 ME FOCUS AND IT GAVE ME LIFE 2016-06-24 16:24:34.129 EXPERIENCE. 2016-06-24 16:24:34.13 TO CUT TO THE CHASE, I FEEL LIKE 2016-06-24 16:24:37.131 A LOT OF MY EDUCATION IN 2016-06-24 16:24:40.127 GRADUATE SCHOOL HAS BEEN 2016-06-24 16:24:41.128 TEACHING AND ALSO THE GENEROSITY 2016-06-24 16:24:43.127 OF OTHER WRITERS, 2016-06-24 16:24:47.17 CONTEMPORARIES, WRITERS FROM -- 2016-06-24 16:24:50.178 WHO I NEVER DREAMED I WOULD GET 2016-06-24 16:24:52.174 TO KNOW AND ME. 2016-06-24 16:24:53.173 >> DO YOU HAVE A MENTOR? 2016-06-24 16:24:55.171 >> BUT I FEEL LIKE I HAVE 10 2016-06-24 16:25:00.221 PEOPLE WHO I FEEL LIKE OUR 2016-06-24 16:25:02.223 MENTORS. 2016-06-24 16:25:03.238 AND PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT I MEET 2016-06-24 16:25:06.22 THROUGH THINGS LIKE THIS. 2016-06-24 16:25:07.221 >> STOP. 2016-06-24 16:25:09.222 >> YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING 2016-06-24 16:25:11.221 ABOUT. 2016-06-24 16:25:11.222 THOSE PEOPLE BECOME YOUR MENTORS 2016-06-24 16:25:14.225 AND YOU ARE HAVING BREAKFAST 2016-06-24 16:25:16.22 WITH THEM. 2016-06-24 16:25:16.221 AND THEY THINK MAYBE YOU HAD A 2016-06-24 16:25:18.255 VERY CLEAR, IN COLLEGE, THIS 2016-06-24 16:25:21.256 PERSON WHO SAID YOU ARE A 2016-06-24 16:25:23.254 WRITER. 2016-06-24 16:25:23.256 >> AND COME WITH ME. 2016-06-24 16:25:26.253 YES. 2016-06-24 16:25:27.253 >> AND THE WAYS IN WHICH I WAS 2016-06-24 16:25:31.251 INTROVERTED AND SHY SO MUCH THAT 2016-06-24 16:25:35.257 I DID NOT REACH OUT. 2016-06-24 16:25:36.252 BUT JAMES LAPINE, WE STARTED 2016-06-24 16:25:41.261 HAVING BREAKFAST BEGGARLY AND HE 2016-06-24 16:25:43.253 DOES NOT KNOW I AM -- BREAKFAST, 2016-06-24 16:25:46.253 AND HE DOES NOT KNOW HE IS MY 2016-06-24 16:25:48.253 MENTOR. 2016-06-24 16:25:48.254 >> I GET TOGETHER AT SOMEONE'S 2016-06-24 16:25:51.252 HOUSE AND SHE DOES NOT KNOW. 2016-06-24 16:25:53.251 >> AND I GET TOGETHER WITH AMY 2016-06-24 16:25:56.308 HERZOG, THESE PEOPLE, SO I FEEL 2016-06-24 16:25:59.298 LIKE I HAVE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO 2016-06-24 16:26:02.3 BE IN THE COMMUNITY AS A RESULT 2016-06-24 16:26:03.298 OF HAVING A CAREER, THAT IS HOW 2016-06-24 16:26:06.299 I BUILT THAT EDUCATION AND THAT 2016-06-24 16:26:09.297 COMMUNITY OF MENTOR SHIP. 2016-06-24 16:26:09.298 HOW ABOUT YOU? 2016-06-24 16:26:11.297 YOU WERE IN GRADUATE SCHOOL FOR 2016-06-24 16:26:13.301 ACTING. 2016-06-24 16:26:13.302 >> I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A CLOSETED 2016-06-24 16:26:16.299 WRITER. 2016-06-24 16:26:17.393 YOU SAID THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS 2016-06-24 16:26:20.339 WRITING, BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE. 2016-06-24 16:26:21.336 >> AND IN THEATER. 2016-06-24 16:26:23.336 >> I ALWAYS WROTE, BUT NEVER 2016-06-24 16:26:26.34 WROTE, NEVER SHARED ANYTHING. 2016-06-24 16:26:30.337 I HAVE A LAPTOP FROM 1997 THAT 2016-06-24 16:26:33.335 LOOKS LIKE A BRICK AND IN IT ARE 2016-06-24 16:26:37.336 FOR PLAYS THAT I STARTED -- 4 2016-06-24 16:26:41.339 PLAYS THAT I STARTED. 2016-06-24 16:26:42.338 CONTINUUM WAS THE FIRST TIME 2016-06-24 16:26:45.341 THAT I STARTED TO SEE SOMETHING 2016-06-24 16:26:45.342 THROUGH. 2016-06-24 16:26:46.339 AND THAT WAS THE VICTORY. 2016-06-24 16:26:48.338 EVERYTHING THAT CAME AFTER THAT, 2016-06-24 16:26:52.339 OH MY GOD, YOU WANT TO HEAR IT? 2016-06-24 16:26:55.445 I JUST WANTED TO FINISH IT. 2016-06-24 16:26:57.341 I WANTED TO ACCOMPLISH 2016-06-24 16:27:00.343 SOMETHING. 2016-06-24 16:27:00.344 >> "A CONVERSATION WITH 2016-06-24 16:27:00.345 PLAYWRIGHT STEPHEN KARAM" WHAT 2016-06-24 16:27:01.339 WHAT WAS IT LIKE? 2016-06-24 16:27:08.382 DID YOU LEAVE ON OTHER PEOPLE -- 2016-06-24 16:27:10.382 LEAN ON OTHER PEOPLE? 2016-06-24 16:27:12.38 >> I WAS NAIVE. 2016-06-24 16:27:15.38 PART OF WHY I WROTE WAS BECAUSE 2016-06-24 16:27:18.38 PEOPLE WERE ASKING, WHAT ARE YOU 2016-06-24 16:27:19.38 WRITING NEXT? 2016-06-24 16:27:20.388 I THOUGHT, WHAT DO YOU WANT 2016-06-24 16:27:24.381 NEXT? 2016-06-24 16:27:24.382 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:27:25.381 >> THEY DETERMINED YOU ARE A 2016-06-24 16:27:28.382 WRITER. 2016-06-24 16:27:28.383 >> I WAS NOT QUITE READY TO BE 2016-06-24 16:27:30.381 STAMPED. 2016-06-24 16:27:31.385 EVEN WHEN I DECIDED I WANTED TO 2016-06-24 16:27:34.383 WRITE, I WOULD GO FOR EMERGING 2016-06-24 16:27:36.382 WRITERS PROGRAMS, BUT THEY WOULD 2016-06-24 16:27:38.381 SAY, YOU ARE ON BROADWAY. 2016-06-24 16:27:40.38 I WOULD SAY, I NEED HELP. 2016-06-24 16:27:43.379 THEY SAID, NO HELP HERE. 2016-06-24 16:27:46.427 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:27:46.428 >> THAT IS FUNNY. 2016-06-24 16:27:48.475 WHEN I WAS IN THE UNDERGROUND, 2016-06-24 16:27:52.473 WHERE IS HE? 2016-06-24 16:27:53.479 THERE HE IS. 2016-06-24 16:27:55.521 THERE IS A FUNNY MOMENT THAT 2016-06-24 16:27:57.522 HAPPENS, I HAVE BEEN WORKING IN 2016-06-24 16:27:59.523 THE LAW FIRM FOR 10 YEARS. 2016-06-24 16:28:01.529 I HAD CREATED IN -- AN THINKABLE 2016-06-24 16:28:05.522 PROGRAM, A PLAY, AND I FELT LIKE 2016-06-24 16:28:09.528 I WAS READY TO START. 2016-06-24 16:28:10.549 AND ALSO, THE KIND OF RESPONSE I 2016-06-24 16:28:13.55 GOT BACK IN FROM A LOT OF THOSE 2016-06-24 16:28:15.548 EMERGING WRITERS, MAYBE YOU WERE 2016-06-24 16:28:17.558 TOO -- YOU GO FROM 2016-06-24 16:28:23.547 BEING, I WILL 2016-06-24 16:28:23.548 NEVER HAVE A CAREER IN THE ARTS 2016-06-24 16:28:26.553 TO -- 2016-06-24 16:28:27.548 IT IS A PROBLEM. 2016-06-24 16:28:28.552 I KNOW WRITERS, EVERYTHING FALLS 2016-06-24 16:28:32.633 INTO PLACE AFTER YOUR FIRST, YOU 2016-06-24 16:28:35.631 KNOW. 2016-06-24 16:28:35.632 AS IF EVERYTHING CLICKED. 2016-06-24 16:28:38.63 >> IT DID NOT. 2016-06-24 16:28:40.633 IT WAS VERY SCARY. 2016-06-24 16:28:41.633 I DID NOT KNOW WHAT I WANTED TO 2016-06-24 16:28:44.634 SAY. 2016-06-24 16:28:44.635 AND WHAT WAS THAT? 2016-06-24 16:28:47.633 I AM TEASING. 2016-06-24 16:28:48.633 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:28:49.633 >> I THINK THAT ONCE I KIND OF 2016-06-24 16:28:54.674 GOT A HANDLE ON MY OWN VOICE AND 2016-06-24 16:28:57.675 WHAT I WANTED TO SAY, AT LEAST 2016-06-24 16:29:00.676 IT BECAME A DECISION I MADE. 2016-06-24 16:29:01.673 I DO NOT THINK IT MADE IT 2016-06-24 16:29:04.678 EASIER, BUT I WAS DOING THIS. 2016-06-24 16:29:05.678 >> WHERE YOU PATIENT WAITING FOR 2016-06-24 16:29:08.678 THE NEXT IDEA? 2016-06-24 16:29:09.677 >> NO. 2016-06-24 16:29:11.724 I SAID, WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE? 2016-06-24 16:29:14.727 DON'T YOU SEE I WROTE SOMETHING 2016-06-24 16:29:16.723 YOU -- NEW? 2016-06-24 16:29:19.78 >> THE IDEA FOR YOUR SECOND 2016-06-24 16:29:21.731 FLIGHT. 2016-06-24 16:29:23.773 -- PLAY? 2016-06-24 16:29:25.781 DO YOU HAVE TIMES WHEN THERE IS 2016-06-24 16:29:28.779 A DROUGHT? 2016-06-24 16:29:28.78 >> THERE IS NEVER A DROUGHT. 2016-06-24 16:29:31.776 I FEEL PLAGUED BY IDEAS. 2016-06-24 16:29:33.775 I AM THINKING, THIS IS THE LAST 2016-06-24 16:29:36.774 ONE. 2016-06-24 16:29:36.775 THEN AT ONE. 2016-06-24 16:29:38.801 THAT IS IT. 2016-06-24 16:29:39.842 >> HOW DO YOU DETERMINE -- WHAT, 2016-06-24 16:29:44.841 DOES IT JUST SORT OF HAPPENED? 2016-06-24 16:29:46.845 -- HAPPEN? 2016-06-24 16:29:49.848 >> IT NEEDS TO BE FINISHED. 2016-06-24 16:29:52.843 IT TAKES OVER ME. 2016-06-24 16:29:53.905 I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE 2016-06-24 16:29:55.853 IT. 2016-06-24 16:29:55.854 AND THEN PEOPLE ARE CALLING YOU. 2016-06-24 16:29:57.849 IT NEEDS TO BE FINISHED. 2016-06-24 16:29:59.884 THEY PUSH YOU FORWARD. 2016-06-24 16:30:02.933 >> IT IS VERY HELPFUL. 2016-06-24 16:30:03.93 >> FORWARD AND BEYOND. 2016-06-24 16:30:06.929 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:30:06.93 >> I THINK THE INITIAL PULSE, 2016-06-24 16:30:10.927 THE DESIRE TO HAVE AND 2016-06-24 16:30:12.928 CONTRIBUTE, TO HAVE VOICES THAT 2016-06-24 16:30:16.931 I RECOGNIZE THE APART OF THE 2016-06-24 16:30:18.929 OPTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO 2016-06-24 16:30:20.929 PEOPLE. 2016-06-24 16:30:20.93 I GUESS, THE OVERARCHING 2016-06-24 16:30:24.932 MOTIVATION. 2016-06-24 16:30:24.933 BUT I AM ALSO ISSUE DRIVEN, 2016-06-24 16:30:28.977 SOMETHING THAT MAKES ME MAD OR 2016-06-24 16:30:30.982 VERY SAD. 2016-06-24 16:30:33.035 >> THAT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE I 2016-06-24 16:30:36.024 FEEL LIKE I ARRIVE AT 2016-06-24 16:30:42.034 ISSUES OR 2016-06-24 16:30:42.035 VERY POLITICAL PLACES THAT ARE 2016-06-24 16:30:44.028 PERSONAL. 2016-06-24 16:30:44.029 BY STARTING FROM A PLACE THAT IS 2016-06-24 16:30:49.025 MYSTERIOUS, BUT I FEEL LIKE, 2016-06-24 16:30:51.054 KRISHNA TALKED ABOUT THIS AND I 2016-06-24 16:30:54.053 CANNOT SLEEP FOR THREE WEEKS, 2016-06-24 16:30:56.053 BECAUSE HE JUST CHANGED THE WAY 2016-06-24 16:30:58.053 THAT I THOUGHT ABOUT CERTAIN 2016-06-24 16:31:00.052 AMERICAN PLAYS THAT I THOUGHT -- 2016-06-24 16:31:04.053 THAT I NEVER THOUGHT WAS 2016-06-24 16:31:05.055 POLITICAL, BUT HE WAS MAKING THE 2016-06-24 16:31:07.065 POINT THAT ESSENTIALLY ANY OF US 2016-06-24 16:31:10.093 ARE WRITING ABOUT THE HUMAN 2016-06-24 16:31:10.093 CONDITION, WE ARE ASKING 2016-06-24 16:31:12.097 QUESTIONS ABOUT, HOW DO WE LIVE 2016-06-24 16:31:14.092 NOW? 2016-06-24 16:31:14.095 WHERE DO WE COME FROM? 2016-06-24 16:31:16.094 WHERE DO WE WANT TO GO? 2016-06-24 16:31:18.095 AND PLAYS LIKE "LONG DAY 'S 2016-06-24 16:31:23.104 JOURNEY" BECOMES POLITICAL. 2016-06-24 16:31:27.099 IN WAYS THAT I DID NOT -- I JUST 2016-06-24 16:31:31.138 THOUGHT, IF I WAS NOT STARTING 2016-06-24 16:31:33.144 FROM AN ISSUE, BUT WITH THE 2016-06-24 16:31:36.136 HUMANS IT BECAME A PLAY THAT 2016-06-24 16:31:39.142 HAPPENED, THE ISSUES THAT 2016-06-24 16:31:42.144 HAPPENED AT THIS ELECTION 2016-06-24 16:31:45.139 CYCLE. 2016-06-24 16:31:45.139 BUT ALSO KNOWING WHERE THE 2016-06-24 16:31:47.139 PERSON OR PLACE CAME FROM, IT IS 2016-06-24 16:31:50.151 INTERESTING TO SEE THE HEADLINES 2016-06-24 16:31:53.139 SAYING, THAT THE PLAY IS ABOUT 2016-06-24 16:31:55.141 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MIDDLE 2016-06-24 16:31:56.141 CLASS. 2016-06-24 16:31:57.142 >> A LOT OF PLAYS ABOUT THAT 2016-06-24 16:32:00.144 NOW. 2016-06-24 16:32:00.145 >> YES. 2016-06-24 16:32:01.142 BECAUSE WE ARE WRITING -- 2016-06-24 16:32:05.141 >> "SWEAT." 2016-06-24 16:32:09.139 >> AND ALSO, THAT PLAY TAKING 2016-06-24 16:32:13.139 PLACE IN PENNSYLVANIA, SCRANTON. 2016-06-24 16:32:15.138 WHO IS FROM SCREEN? -- SCR 2016-06-24 16:32:20.235 ANTON? 2016-06-24 16:32:20.236 >> THAT PERSON. 2016-06-24 16:32:23.229 >> THAT IS AMAZING. 2016-06-24 16:32:24.232 IT IS AMAZING HOW THIS COMMENT 2016-06-24 16:32:28.234 YES, THESE -- THIS, YEAH, WHEN 2016-06-24 16:32:32.23 YOU COME FROM A CITY THAT BUILT 2016-06-24 16:32:34.229 UPON AN INDUSTRY THAT NO LONGER 2016-06-24 16:32:35.279 EXISTS, YOU REALIZE WHAT STRANGE 2016-06-24 16:32:38.28 THINGS SEEP INTO YOUR 2016-06-24 16:32:41.277 CONSCIENCE. 2016-06-24 16:32:41.278 I THINK THAT PEOPLE LIVED IN 2016-06-24 16:32:45.279 PLACES WHERE YOU PASS THE GIANT 2016-06-24 16:32:46.278 MOUNTAINS OF COAL. 2016-06-24 16:32:48.279 THE GIANT MOUNTAINS OF EXTRA 2016-06-24 16:32:51.279 MEN. 2016-06-24 16:32:51.28 AND I REMEMBER TRYING TO EXPLAIN 2016-06-24 16:32:54.35 TO A FRIEND IN COLLEGE, IT IS 2016-06-24 16:32:56.351 LIKE ONE OF THOSE -- 2016-06-24 16:32:57.349 WHAT? 2016-06-24 16:32:59.356 THE MOUNTAINS -- THEY DO NOT 2016-06-24 16:33:02.358 EXIST EVERYWHERE. 2016-06-24 16:33:03.35 >> I GREW UP IN CALIFORNIA WITH 2016-06-24 16:33:05.389 THE OIL WELLS. 2016-06-24 16:33:08.39 AND I WAS LIKE, YOU DO NOT -- 2016-06-24 16:33:13.399 THEY ARE DIGGING FOR OIL ALL THE 2016-06-24 16:33:15.389 TIME I AM FROM. 2016-06-24 16:33:15.39 >> HAVE YOU WRITTEN ABOUT THAT? 2016-06-24 16:33:18.389 >> NO. 2016-06-24 16:33:19.389 MAYBE I WILL. 2016-06-24 16:33:21.433 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:33:21.433 >> DO NOT ADD TO MY LIST OF 2016-06-24 16:33:24.43 THINGS. 2016-06-24 16:33:24.431 THIS CONFERENCE IS VERY MUCH 2016-06-24 16:33:27.485 ABOUT PETER NATION AND 2016-06-24 16:33:29.481 CONSIDERING OURSELVES CITIZENS 2016-06-24 16:33:32.48 OF THAT NATION AND CLEARLY WE 2016-06-24 16:33:33.479 ARE IN A POLITICAL TIME WHEN WE 2016-06-24 16:33:36.477 ALL SHOULD BE CONSIDERING WHERE 2016-06-24 16:33:38.479 WE ARE IN THE NATION AND THE 2016-06-24 16:33:38.48 WORLD. 2016-06-24 16:33:39.479 SO STARTING SMALL AND MOVING TO 2016-06-24 16:33:42.478 MORE GRAND, AS A THEATER 2016-06-24 16:33:44.528 PRACTITIONER, HOW DO YOU SEE 2016-06-24 16:33:45.533 YOURSELF AS A CITIZEN OF THIS 2016-06-24 16:33:48.529 NATION? 2016-06-24 16:33:48.53 >> HELP ME OUT. 2016-06-24 16:33:50.529 HOW DO YOU SEE YOURSELF AS A 2016-06-24 16:33:52.53 CITIZEN OF THIS NATION? 2016-06-24 16:33:54.529 >> THINK OF IT LIKE DUTIES AND 2016-06-24 16:33:57.53 RIGHTS AND YOU KNOW, PRIVILEGES. 2016-06-24 16:34:01.528 WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR RESPONSE 2016-06-24 16:34:03.571 BUDDIES AND DUTIES ARE -- 2016-06-24 16:34:06.56 RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES ARE? 2016-06-24 16:34:09.558 AND RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES? 2016-06-24 16:34:12.559 >> FIRST AND FOREMOST ONE THING 2016-06-24 16:34:16.562 ABOUT THE POLITICAL, I THINK IT 2016-06-24 16:34:17.558 IS EVERY ARTIST'S JOB, MY JOB, 2016-06-24 16:34:20.56 TO TELL THE TRUTH. 2016-06-24 16:34:22.559 IN TERMS OF EXPLAINING CONDITION 2016-06-24 16:34:26.559 AND EVERYTHING, THAT IS A 2016-06-24 16:34:27.56 STARTING POINT. 2016-06-24 16:34:29.56 AND IF YOU LIKE -- SO PART OF 2016-06-24 16:34:32.559 THAT. 2016-06-24 16:34:33.598 >> PART OF RESPONSIBILITY. 2016-06-24 16:34:36.601 >> AND IT DOES NOT MEAN -- I 2016-06-24 16:34:40.6 MEAN, IT IS HARD TO TELL THE 2016-06-24 16:34:41.609 TRUTH. 2016-06-24 16:34:42.603 IT IS A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY. 2016-06-24 16:34:44.614 AND PART OF IT MEANS BEING 2016-06-24 16:34:46.604 CONNECTED TO THOSE AROUND ME, 2016-06-24 16:34:49.601 BEING AWARE OF -- IT IS HARD, 2016-06-24 16:34:54.643 BECAUSE IT IS CONNECTED. 2016-06-24 16:34:55.644 READING THE NEWSPAPER YESTERDAY, 2016-06-24 16:34:58.688 THE UNBELIEVABLE RESPONSE. 2016-06-24 16:35:00.685 THE TONY'S WHERE EXCITING AND 2016-06-24 16:35:03.686 CAME UNDER THE WAVE, ESPECIALLY 2016-06-24 16:35:06.685 AS A GAY MAN, TO BE IN CLUBS 2016-06-24 16:35:09.685 LIKE PAUL -- PULSE, TO HAVE 2016-06-24 16:35:14.688 ORLANDO AND WITH THE SAID IN -- 2016-06-24 16:35:17.695 SIT IN, AND TO SEE PAUL RYAN 2016-06-24 16:35:22.686 AT THE PODIUM AND TO FEEL SO -- 2016-06-24 16:35:26.685 SO, A KIND OF DESPONDENCY 2016-06-24 16:35:32.687 SETTING IN. 2016-06-24 16:35:32.688 PART OF ME, WHEN I HEAR THE WORD 2016-06-24 16:35:36.692 CITIZEN, I FEEL LIKE IT IS NOT 2016-06-24 16:35:39.689 AS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO TELL THE 2016-06-24 16:35:41.69 TRUTH, BUT TO CLING TO A VERY 2016-06-24 16:35:43.688 REAL HOPE. 2016-06-24 16:35:45.688 AND TELLING STORIES, EVEN IF I 2016-06-24 16:35:48.691 AM NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT THE 2016-06-24 16:35:49.685 ORIGIN IS, NOT TO 2016-06-24 16:35:54.695 BE DEPRESSING, 2016-06-24 16:35:54.696 BUT FEAR-BASED. 2016-06-24 16:35:55.691 THINGS THAT ARE KEEPING ME UP 2016-06-24 16:35:57.691 AND I CAN IT IS CONNECTED -- 2016-06-24 16:36:01.689 KEEPING ME UP AT NIGHT. 2016-06-24 16:36:02.691 IT IS CONNECTED TO POLITICS. 2016-06-24 16:36:05.732 AND POLITICIANS ARE OBSESSED 2016-06-24 16:36:08.731 WITH WHAT IS KEEPING PEOPLE UP 2016-06-24 16:36:11.73 AT NIGHT. 2016-06-24 16:36:11.73 THEY TAP, IN A DANGEROUS WAY, 2016-06-24 16:36:15.73 THEY TRIED TO GET THE VOTES AND 2016-06-24 16:36:18.732 TRY TO WIN. 2016-06-24 16:36:18.733 BUT WE ARE TELLING THE TRUTH AND 2016-06-24 16:36:21.779 IT IS A PRIVILEGED POSITION TO 2016-06-24 16:36:23.787 BE IN. 2016-06-24 16:36:23.788 I DO NOT KNOW. 2016-06-24 16:36:24.779 I AM JUST -- 2016-06-24 16:36:26.78 >> WHAT IS KEEPING YOU UP AT 2016-06-24 16:36:28.779 NIGHT? 2016-06-24 16:36:29.78 >> EVERYTHING I READ IN THE 2016-06-24 16:36:31.853 PAPER YESTERDAY. 2016-06-24 16:36:32.781 HOW ARE YOU GUYS SLEEPING? 2016-06-24 16:36:34.781 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:36:35.779 >> THESE ARE SCARY TIMES, BUT 2016-06-24 16:36:38.782 ALSO TIMES, WE LIVE IN A TIME 2016-06-24 16:36:41.815 WHERE THE RESPONSE POST ORLANDO, 2016-06-24 16:36:45.812 THE WAY THAT PEOPLE HAVE 2016-06-24 16:36:46.811 ORGANIZED AND THAT TOGETHER AND 2016-06-24 16:36:49.813 THE WAY THAT YOU AND A LOT OF 2016-06-24 16:36:49.814 YOU, YOU ARE HERE YESTERDAY, YOU 2016-06-24 16:36:54.812 SAW THE SIT IN, I FEEL LIKE -- 2016-06-24 16:36:59.812 >> WE WENT TO THE HILL. 2016-06-24 16:37:03.815 >> HOW ARE YOU DOING? 2016-06-24 16:37:05.813 >> IT FEELS LIKE A PLAY. 2016-06-24 16:37:09.829 I SAID TO SOMEONE EARLIER TODAY, 2016-06-24 16:37:12.853 I WROTE THIS AND NOBODY WOULD 2016-06-24 16:37:14.906 PRODUCE IT. 2016-06-24 16:37:15.9 WHAT? 2016-06-24 16:37:16.909 >> CAN WE TALK ABOUT ENGLAND? 2016-06-24 16:37:19.898 >> THAT SCARES ME. 2016-06-24 16:37:21.899 >> IT GOES BACK TO FEAR. 2016-06-24 16:37:23.901 >> YES? 2016-06-24 16:37:25.898 >> TALKING ABOUT IT. 2016-06-24 16:37:28.899 IT IS SO, IN TERMS OF -- WHAT IS 2016-06-24 16:37:33.898 INTERESTING, I FEEL LIKE I 2016-06-24 16:37:34.901 STARTED MY LAST PLAY BECAUSE I 2016-06-24 16:37:36.998 WAS OBSESSING NOT JUST ON THE 2016-06-24 16:37:40.985 THINGS THAT WERE KEEPING ME UP, 2016-06-24 16:37:41.994 BUT THE UNIVERSAL FEARS WE ALL 2016-06-24 16:37:42.993 HAVE. 2016-06-24 16:37:43.985 THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY. 2016-06-24 16:37:45.983 HOW DIFFERENTLY WE COPE WITH 2016-06-24 16:37:50.041 THEM. 2016-06-24 16:37:50.041 WHAT IS THOSE UNIVERSAL FEARS, 2016-06-24 16:37:54.03 THE FEAR OF POVERTY, FAILURE, 2016-06-24 16:37:57.035 IRRELEVANCE -- 2016-06-24 16:37:59.034 >> I CAN GO ON. 2016-06-24 16:38:01.034 >> IN TERMS OF UNDERSTANDING 2016-06-24 16:38:03.033 THINGS I DO NOT UNDERSTAND. 2016-06-24 16:38:04.036 PEOPLE WHO ARE VOTING FOR DONALD 2016-06-24 16:38:07.083 TRUMP. 2016-06-24 16:38:07.083 BUT THERE IS A VERY REAL KIND OF 2016-06-24 16:38:09.079 FEAR WE CAN CONNECT TO PEOPLE IN 2016-06-24 16:38:12.092 ENGLAND, ESPECIALLY THE LOWER 2016-06-24 16:38:14.087 WORKING CLASSES, I THINK THERE 2016-06-24 16:38:17.173 IS A KIND OF FEAR THAT WE DO 2016-06-24 16:38:19.115 HAVE TO WORK TO UNDERSTAND, EVEN 2016-06-24 16:38:22.11 IF WE DO NOT THINK THAT THE 2016-06-24 16:38:23.109 CORNER THAT THEY HAVE RUN TO 2016-06-24 16:38:26.11 TAKE UP WITH THE FEAR -- COPE 2016-06-24 16:38:29.109 WITH THE FEAR SEEMS INSANE, TO 2016-06-24 16:38:33.113 ME PERSONALLY. 2016-06-24 16:38:33.114 I AM TRYING TO NAVIGATE THOSE 2016-06-24 16:38:36.112 WATERS. 2016-06-24 16:38:36.113 >> I THINK THERE IS FEAR OF LOSS 2016-06-24 16:38:40.15 OF IDENTITY. 2016-06-24 16:38:40.15 >> YES. 2016-06-24 16:38:42.149 AND THE FACT THAT THE FEAR OF 2016-06-24 16:38:45.235 THE CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING, 2016-06-24 16:38:48.234 TO SEE THESE SETBACKS IN TERMS 2016-06-24 16:38:50.233 OF IMMIGRATION. 2016-06-24 16:38:51.277 MY GRANDFATHER WAS BORN ABROAD. 2016-06-24 16:38:55.233 TO SEE THIS FEAR OF THE OTHER IN 2016-06-24 16:39:00.233 2016 WORK SO SUCCESSFULLY, AND 2016-06-24 16:39:03.281 FOR US TO MAYBE JUST FEEL GOOD 2016-06-24 16:39:05.284 ABOUT DONALD TRUMP BEING MORE OF 2016-06-24 16:39:08.286 A JOKE. 2016-06-24 16:39:08.287 WAS I NEVER THOUGHT -- 2016-06-24 16:39:10.284 >> YOU DIDN'T? 2016-06-24 16:39:12.284 >> BUT DID YOU GROW UP IN A 2016-06-24 16:39:17.343 SWING STATE? 2016-06-24 16:39:18.332 >> NO, CALIFORNIA. 2016-06-24 16:39:20.333 VERY BLUE. 2016-06-24 16:39:21.342 >> WHERE IS SCRANTON AT? 2016-06-24 16:39:25.333 >> WHAT IS INTERESTING ABOUT THE 2016-06-24 16:39:30.332 PEOPLE WHO POPULATE THIS PLACE. 2016-06-24 16:39:32.335 YOU ARE JUST VERY CLOSE TO 2016-06-24 16:39:36.361 PEOPLE WHO COULD VERY EASILY GO 2016-06-24 16:39:38.367 ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. 2016-06-24 16:39:38.368 AND THAT IS THE FASCINATING 2016-06-24 16:39:41.367 THING. 2016-06-24 16:39:41.368 I REFLECT ON IT. 2016-06-24 16:39:44.36 >> I LIVE IN NEW JERSEY AND MY 2016-06-24 16:39:47.362 MECHANIC, IT IS OFTEN 2016-06-24 16:39:50.414 INTERESTING TO HEAR HIM TALK, 2016-06-24 16:39:52.405 BECAUSE HE SPEAKS POLITICALLY. 2016-06-24 16:39:53.4 AND I DO NOT. 2016-06-24 16:39:55.4 AND I SAY, HOW ARE YOU DOING? 2016-06-24 16:39:58.404 AND HE IS ALWAYS TELLING US THAT 2016-06-24 16:40:02.406 CLIMATE CHANGE DOES NOT EXIST 2016-06-24 16:40:03.404 AND IF IT DOES, IT IS SURVIVAL 2016-06-24 16:40:07.404 OF THE FITTEST. 2016-06-24 16:40:07.404 THE CREAM WILL RISE TO THE TOP. 2016-06-24 16:40:11.404 HE STOPPED MY HUSBAND AND SAID 2016-06-24 16:40:14.45 TO HIM, HE IS UPSET BECAUSE 2016-06-24 16:40:17.451 SOMEBODY CALLED HIM RACIST AND 2016-06-24 16:40:19.453 HE THOUGHT IT WAS A COP OUT. 2016-06-24 16:40:21.441 IN MY HUSBAND IS A VERY BIG, 2016-06-24 16:40:24.443 BLACK MAN. 2016-06-24 16:40:24.444 HE SAID, YOU ARE MY FRIEND. 2016-06-24 16:40:28.453 HOW AM I RACIST? 2016-06-24 16:40:30.445 >> WHY DO YOU KEEP GETTING YOUR 2016-06-24 16:40:33.445 CAR BY THE START -- FIXED BY 2016-06-24 16:40:37.443 THIS GUY? 2016-06-24 16:40:38.446 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:40:39.445 >> HE IS REALLY GOOD. 2016-06-24 16:40:41.452 AND REALLY NEARBY. 2016-06-24 16:40:43.451 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:40:43.452 >> UM. 2016-06-24 16:40:45.446 >> IT IS LIKE STARBUCKS. 2016-06-24 16:40:49.445 NONE OF US WANT TO GO THERE. 2016-06-24 16:40:51.446 >> BUT IT IS THERE. 2016-06-24 16:40:53.45 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? 2016-06-24 16:40:55.449 I MEAN. 2016-06-24 16:40:56.456 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:40:56.456 >> IT IS LIKE THE INSTITUTION, 2016-06-24 16:41:01.446 LIKE, THESE INSTITUTIONAL 2016-06-24 16:41:05.445 CONNECTION TO THIS ISSUE. 2016-06-24 16:41:07.451 KIND OF RESPONSIBILITY TO THEM 2016-06-24 16:41:10.452 OR NOT. 2016-06-24 16:41:11.45 YOU CANNOT JUST, LIKE, I DO NOT 2016-06-24 16:41:14.449 MIND GOING TO QUALITY AUTO. 2016-06-24 16:41:18.51 LARRY IS A PART OF IT. 2016-06-24 16:41:20.491 WE ARE IN THIS INSTITUTION. 2016-06-24 16:41:22.484 >> AND DISCUSSIONS ARE 2016-06-24 16:41:25.49 IMPORTANT. 2016-06-24 16:41:25.491 NOT LEAVING A LOT OF ROOM FOR 2016-06-24 16:41:27.486 POINT OF VIEW, OR MAYBE NOT 2016-06-24 16:41:29.491 HEARING YOU COMPLETELY. 2016-06-24 16:41:30.492 BUT YOU KNOW, SEVERING THOSE 2016-06-24 16:41:33.491 TIES IS NOT ALWAYS THE ANSWER 2016-06-24 16:41:35.507 EITHER. 2016-06-24 16:41:35.508 >> FOR INSTANCE, WE FOUND OUT 2016-06-24 16:41:38.491 EARLIER, THAT CAME IN QUIT -- 2016-06-24 16:41:43.491 CAMERON QUIT. 2016-06-24 16:41:45.538 HE QUIT, RIGHT? 2016-06-24 16:41:47.537 HE HAS RESIGNED. 2016-06-24 16:41:49.536 I GUESS I HAVE SEVERAL REACTIONS 2016-06-24 16:41:53.546 TO THAT. 2016-06-24 16:41:53.546 MAYBE THAT IS MY EMPATHETIC 2016-06-24 16:41:56.587 BRAIN, I CAN SEE THAT DECISION, 2016-06-24 16:42:00.585 BUT I SAID TO SOMEONE WHEN YOU 2016-06-24 16:42:02.588 LEAVE THE MARRIAGE, YOU DO NOT 2016-06-24 16:42:03.583 JUST RESIGN. 2016-06-24 16:42:04.59 WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE KIDS 2016-06-24 16:42:06.585 AND THE HOUSE? 2016-06-24 16:42:08.585 YOU CANNOT JUST LEAVE. 2016-06-24 16:42:10.59 WHAT HAPPENS? 2016-06-24 16:42:11.617 >> IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING OVER 2016-06-24 16:42:14.617 SEVERAL WEEKS BUT THERE IS AN 2016-06-24 16:42:16.614 UNDERSTANDING THAT WHAT CAN OR 2016-06-24 16:42:21.624 SHOULD HAPPEN, CANNOT HAPPEN. 2016-06-24 16:42:22.613 >> IT IS IN VULCANIZATION OF 2016-06-24 16:42:26.612 EVERYTHING. 2016-06-24 16:42:27.62 IT IS A CELEBRATION OF 2016-06-24 16:42:30.613 DIVERSITY, THE ABILITY TO STAND 2016-06-24 16:42:33.685 IN YOUR OWN AND TRUTH AND 2016-06-24 16:42:34.613 CELEBRATE YOUR CULTURE AND WAY 2016-06-24 16:42:36.616 OF EXPRESSING TO THE WORLD AND 2016-06-24 16:42:39.615 INSISTING THAT PEOPLE TAKE YOU 2016-06-24 16:42:41.618 LIKE THAT. 2016-06-24 16:42:41.619 PEOPLE TAKE ME WITH MY BOX. 2016-06-24 16:42:44.614 AND AT THE SAME TIME, THERE IS 2016-06-24 16:42:47.615 ANOTHER MOVEMENT. 2016-06-24 16:42:48.617 THAT MEANS I ONLY HAVE TO BE 2016-06-24 16:42:50.616 WITH THEM, AND I NEED TO 2016-06-24 16:42:55.702 FIND MY 2016-06-24 16:42:55.703 CREW. 2016-06-24 16:42:55.704 IT IS THE SIMULTANEOUS PULL AND 2016-06-24 16:42:59.701 FREEDOM. 2016-06-24 16:43:00.701 I DO NOT KNOW. 2016-06-24 16:43:01.7 I THINK IT IS AN INTERESTING 2016-06-24 16:43:03.701 MOMENT IN THE COUNTRY. 2016-06-24 16:43:05.7 >> BECAUSE, THIS IS JUST, MY 2016-06-24 16:43:08.701 MIND -- I AM HALF HERE AND HALF 2016-06-24 16:43:13.701 THINK ABOUT BREXIT AND DONALD 2016-06-24 16:43:16.702 TRUMP, BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU 2016-06-24 16:43:17.711 REALIZE THAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING 2016-06-24 16:43:20.7 THIS NOW, BUT IT LIKE A SHOCKING 2016-06-24 16:43:24.702 REMINDER OF HOW PEOPLE FEEL JUST 2016-06-24 16:43:29.699 COMPLETELY DISENFRANCHISED, AND 2016-06-24 16:43:32.702 HOW MANY PEOPLE FEEL SO UN 2016-06-24 16:43:36.701 HEARD. 2016-06-24 16:43:37.707 THERE IS A NATIVISM THAT HAS 2016-06-24 16:43:40.788 CAUSED PEOPLE IN ENGLAND TO 2016-06-24 16:43:42.787 RESPOND TO THIS CALL. 2016-06-24 16:43:43.791 BUT IT IS A WAVE OF FRUSTRATION 2016-06-24 16:43:47.802 THAT FEELS LIKE A MESSAGE BEING 2016-06-24 16:43:49.793 SENT. 2016-06-24 16:43:49.793 IT FEELS LIKE I AM GIVING UP. 2016-06-24 16:43:52.793 MAYBE THIS WILL WORK. 2016-06-24 16:43:54.791 MAYBE NOW YOU WILL PAY 2016-06-24 16:43:56.836 ATTENTION. 2016-06-24 16:43:56.837 LESS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES AND 2016-06-24 16:43:59.87 MORE ABOUT, YOU HAVE TO, ALMOST 2016-06-24 16:44:02.911 LIKE A KID WHO'S PARENTS -- THE 2016-06-24 16:44:06.91 KID IS ACTING OUT. 2016-06-24 16:44:07.909 I DO NOT KNOW IF THAT IS REAL. 2016-06-24 16:44:09.911 WE ARE DRAMATISTS 2016-06-24 16:44:14.921 , WE KNOW THAT 2016-06-24 16:44:14.921 PEOPLE ARE COMPLICATED. 2016-06-24 16:44:15.909 BUT IT FEELS LIKE, IN TERMS OF 2016-06-24 16:44:19.915 TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE 2016-06-24 16:44:20.915 PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND IT, IT IS 2016-06-24 16:44:23.918 IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IT IN 2016-06-24 16:44:25.948 THAT CONTEXT. 2016-06-24 16:44:26.951 >> DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE ARE, AS 2016-06-24 16:44:33.954 AN INDUSTRY, OR YOU AS AN 2016-06-24 16:44:35.953 INDIVIDUAL, ARE RESPONDING FAST 2016-06-24 16:44:36.951 AND? 2016-06-24 16:44:37.953 -- ENOUGH? 2016-06-24 16:44:40.953 >> HONESTLY, NO. 2016-06-24 16:44:41.963 NO. 2016-06-24 16:44:42.952 FEEL LIKE THERE IS ALWAYS MORE I 2016-06-24 16:44:45.996 CAN DO AND SHOULD BE DOING. 2016-06-24 16:44:48.004 AND I THINK THAT MAYBE IT IS 2016-06-24 16:44:52.994 THINGS LIKE THIS THAT CAUSE 2016-06-24 16:44:55.993 PEOPLE TO ORGANIZE AND FIND WAYS 2016-06-24 16:44:56.995 TO MOBILIZE OR SPEAK OUT. 2016-06-24 16:45:00.994 ART COMES OUT OF SITUATIONS LIKE 2016-06-24 16:45:03.993 THIS, TOO. 2016-06-24 16:45:04.993 MY LAST PLAY CAME OUT OF TRYING 2016-06-24 16:45:09.046 TO MAKE SENSE OF FRUSTRATION AND 2016-06-24 16:45:10.039 ANXIETY I WAS FEELING POST 2016-06-24 16:45:13.041 FINANCIAL CRISIS AND POST 9-11. 2016-06-24 16:45:17.041 WORKING AT A LAW FIRM AND TRYING 2016-06-24 16:45:19.042 TO UNDERSTAND OR MAKE SENSE OF 2016-06-24 16:45:21.041 WHERE THAT GOES. 2016-06-24 16:45:22.038 WHEN PEOPLE THINK THERE HAS BEEN 2016-06-24 16:45:25.095 A RECOVERY. 2016-06-24 16:45:26.09 PART OF ME UNDERSTANDS THIS AS A 2016-06-24 16:45:28.092 BIG "F YOU" IN TERMS OF THOSE 2016-06-24 16:45:36.092 PEOPLE THAT DID NOT GET RECOVERY 2016-06-24 16:45:37.094 OR WERE STUCK IN STAGNATION. 2016-06-24 16:45:39.092 THERE IS A VERY, KIND OF 2016-06-24 16:45:44.121 BANALITY AND HUMILIATING ASPECT 2016-06-24 16:45:47.122 TO BEING POOR IN THIS COUNTRY 2016-06-24 16:45:51.123 RIGHT NOW. 2016-06-24 16:45:51.124 THAT I DO NOT THINK -- 2016-06-24 16:45:54.132 >> HASN'T IT ALWAYS BEEN? 2016-06-24 16:45:58.167 >> WELL, PEOPLE IN POWER TALKING 2016-06-24 16:46:01.16 ABOUT JOB CREATION. 2016-06-24 16:46:02.168 I THINK WHAT WE ARE HEARING AND 2016-06-24 16:46:06.163 THE REALITY OF PEOPLE WHO FEEL 2016-06-24 16:46:07.164 LIKE THEY ARE TRAPPED AND UNABLE 2016-06-24 16:46:10.16 TO ESCAPE. 2016-06-24 16:46:11.167 WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE THERE IS 2016-06-24 16:46:14.161 SOMETHING TO REACH FOR. 2016-06-24 16:46:16.202 THINGS CAN'T POSSIBLY GET 2016-06-24 16:46:19.246 BETTER. 2016-06-24 16:46:19.247 THE INSTINCT TO PULL THE RUG OUT 2016-06-24 16:46:22.257 FROM THE ENTIRE SYSTEM. 2016-06-24 16:46:24.25 IT FEELS LIKE, I UNDERSTAND THAT 2016-06-24 16:46:28.245 IMPULSE. 2016-06-24 16:46:29.247 >> THIS IS DEPRESSING. 2016-06-24 16:46:31.253 >> THIS CONVERSATION WAS 2016-06-24 16:46:34.245 SCHEDULED AND WE DO NOT KNOW 2016-06-24 16:46:36.247 ABOUT THE WEEK'S EVENTS. 2016-06-24 16:46:38.29 I AM SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT 2016-06-24 16:46:39.292 TALKING ABOUT PLAYWRITING MORE. 2016-06-24 16:46:41.293 >> WE NEED TO WRAP UP. 2016-06-24 16:46:43.294 BUT I WANTED LAST THOUGHTS. 2016-06-24 16:46:45.292 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR WORK 2016-06-24 16:46:48.291 OR THE WORK OF THIS GENERATION, 2016-06-24 16:46:50.29 WHAT YOU HOPE THAT OUR LEGACY -- 2016-06-24 16:46:53.342 WHAT DO YOU HOPE THAT OUR LEGACY 2016-06-24 16:46:56.339 WILL BE? 2016-06-24 16:46:56.34 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT BABY 2016-06-24 16:46:59.343 BOOMERS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS 2016-06-24 16:47:00.346 TO THE WORLD, PEOPLE LOOK AT US 2016-06-24 16:47:03.374 AND WHAT WE ARE INTRUDING. 2016-06-24 16:47:05.382 -- CONTRIBUTING. 2016-06-24 16:47:07.386 WHAT DO YOU HOPE? 2016-06-24 16:47:09.373 >> I HOPE WE REMAIN A GROUP OF 2016-06-24 16:47:12.375 TRUTH TELLERS. 2016-06-24 16:47:13.373 THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN MAY BE 2016-06-24 16:47:15.373 DOING SOMETHING THAT NO OTHER 2016-06-24 16:47:16.374 GENERATION AS DONE BEFORE, BUT I 2016-06-24 16:47:19.451 THINK THAT SOMETHING, THIS WAS 2016-06-24 16:47:24.415 ASTONISHING, THAT THE FOUR OF US 2016-06-24 16:47:25.46 WERE NOMINATED FOR BEST PLAY AND 2016-06-24 16:47:28.498 WE ARE ALL UNDER 40. 2016-06-24 16:47:31.497 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:47:32.497 >> WELL, ONE DAY I WILL BE OVER 2016-06-24 16:47:36.501 40. 2016-06-24 16:47:36.501 >> I AM ALMOST THERE. 2016-06-24 16:47:38.5 I THINK WE ARE VERY CLOSE. 2016-06-24 16:47:40.499 BUT, WHAT IS GREAT, I 2016-06-24 16:47:45.509 THINK THE 2016-06-24 16:47:45.509 POINT I WAS TRYING TO MAKE IS 2016-06-24 16:47:46.546 THAT THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS ARE 2016-06-24 16:47:48.597 ALWAYS GOOD AT BEING THE 2016-06-24 16:47:53.609 ROUSERS, TELLING A KIND OF TRUTH 2016-06-24 16:47:55.596 THAT IS SPECIFIC TO A POINT OF 2016-06-24 16:47:59.597 VIEW THAT ONLY THEY WOULD HAVE. 2016-06-24 16:48:00.592 SO I THINK THAT IS KIND OF, THAT 2016-06-24 16:48:04.629 IS NOT REALLY -- 2016-06-24 16:48:06.626 >> IT IS BEAUTIFUL. 2016-06-24 16:48:07.624 >> HOW ABOUT YOU? 2016-06-24 16:48:09.667 >> I HOPE THAT 2016-06-24 16:48:16.754 WE APOLOGETICALLY 2016-06-24 16:48:16.755 -- UNAPOLOGETICALLY MAKE A 2016-06-24 16:48:18.778 CONTRIBUTION THAT IS TRUTH 2016-06-24 16:48:20.752 TELLING AND IMMEDIATE. 2016-06-24 16:48:21.75 THAT WE FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT 2016-06-24 16:48:24.75 IMMEDIATE. 2016-06-24 16:48:24.751 THIS WAS WONDERFUL. 2016-06-24 16:48:29.753 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:48:29.754 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2016-06-24 16:48:31.761 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 2016-06-24 16:48:33.791 I WILL REMEMBER YOU FOREVER. 2016-06-24 16:48:35.801 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:48:36.841 >> GOING OUT THIS WITH -- THIS 2016-06-24 16:48:40.843 WAY? 2016-06-24 16:48:41.843 >> I GUESS SO. 2016-06-24 16:48:44.003 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH STEPHEN AND 2016-06-24 16:48:46.847 NICOLE. 2016-06-24 16:48:47.841 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:48:47.842 >> YOU ARE OUR TRUTH 2016-06-24 16:48:53.893 TELLERS AND 2016-06-24 16:48:53.894 WE APPRECIATE THAT YOU GAVE US 2016-06-24 16:48:56.924 THAT TIME TO REFLECT ON ALL OF 2016-06-24 16:48:57.925 THE THINGS HAPPENING IN OUR 2016-06-24 16:48:58.918 WORLD IN THESE LAST FEW DAYS. 2016-06-24 16:49:01.916 ALSO, JUST REALLY ALLOWING US TO 2016-06-24 16:49:05.92 GET TO KNOW YOU A LITTLE BETTER. 2016-06-24 16:49:05.921 THAT WAS WONDERFUL. 2016-06-24 16:49:07.92 I ALSO WANT TO THANK NELSON, 2016-06-24 16:49:13.92 ELENA AND EMILYA FOR SHARING 2016-06-24 16:49:17.965 "BEYOND ORIENTALISM". 2016-06-24 16:49:20.004 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:49:20.005 >> AND ALSO, I THINK I GOT THE 2016-06-24 16:49:25.002 TITLE WRONG. 2016-06-24 16:49:26.004 AND ALSO, BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO 2016-06-24 16:49:30.004 DEAF WEST. 2016-06-24 16:49:31.018 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:49:32.003 TERESA: I WANT TO ALSO, WE ARE 2016-06-24 16:49:39.045 ABOUT TO -- WE HAD A VERY BIG 2016-06-24 16:49:43.096 DAY TODAY. 2016-06-24 16:49:43.096 I HAVE BEEN HEARING FROM PEOPLE 2016-06-24 16:49:46.142 ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY ARE ENJOYING 2016-06-24 16:49:49.142 WHAT THEY ARE LEARNING AND 2016-06-24 16:49:49.142 HEARING IN THE SESSIONS. 2016-06-24 16:49:51.207 NOW WE HAVE MORE. 2016-06-24 16:49:52.147 THIS IS A BUSY EVENING. 2016-06-24 16:49:54.142 WE HAVE PROFESSIONAL AFFINITY 2016-06-24 16:49:57.143 GROUPS. 2016-06-24 16:49:57.144 AND I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT 2016-06-24 16:50:00.148 THE DIME AROUNDS -- DINE AROUND 2016-06-24 16:50:04.169 WILL BE RALLYING AROUND 6:15 2016-06-24 16:50:06.173 P.M. AND SPACE IS STILL 2016-06-24 16:50:08.171 AVAILABLE. 2016-06-24 16:50:08.172 YOU CAN CHECK OUT THINGS IN 2016-06-24 16:50:12.169 CONFERENCE 2.0. 2016-06-24 16:50:14.178 THERE WILL BE DINNER AT STATION 2016-06-24 16:50:17.173 4, BEFORE THE RADIO PLAY OF THE 2016-06-24 16:50:20.173 ORIGINALIST. 2016-06-24 16:50:20.174 AND THERE WILL BE AT THE 2016-06-24 16:50:25.174 HAMILTON -- AND P MILLER WILL 2016-06-24 16:50:29.182 ESCORT A GROUP TO DISTRICT TACO 2016-06-24 16:50:33.169 AND TO THE EASTERN MARKET. 2016-06-24 16:50:34.18 THERE ARE TWO PERFORMANCES THAT 2016-06-24 16:50:37.173 ARE JUST FOR TCG ATTENDEES. 2016-06-24 16:50:42.172 YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT 2016-06-24 16:50:45.179 ALSO ON CONFERENCE 2.0. 2016-06-24 16:50:47.201 AND FINALLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE 2016-06-24 16:50:50.172 PARTY LEFT IN THEM, WOOLLY 2016-06-24 16:50:52.186 MAMMOTH IS HOSTING A PARTY TO 2016-06-24 16:50:55.179 SHOWCASE THE DISTRICT COMMUNITY 2016-06-24 16:50:57.175 FROM 9:00 P.M.-12:30 A.M. AND 2016-06-24 16:51:00.173 YOU CAN ARRIVE ANYTIME AFTER THE 2016-06-24 16:51:02.176 SHOWS AND WE WILL BE THERE. 2016-06-24 16:51:03.172 WOOLLY MAMMOTH IS A 10-15 MINUTE 2016-06-24 16:51:07.212 WALK FROM THE HOTEL. 2016-06-24 16:51:08.216 BRING IN ID AND CONFERENCE 2016-06-24 16:51:11.215 BADGE. 2016-06-24 16:51:11.216 AND THE HOST COMMITTEE HAS FOUND 2016-06-24 16:51:14.254 SUPPORT FOR A FREE DRINK TICKET, 2016-06-24 16:51:18.256 SO HOW CAN YOU MISS THIS? 2016-06-24 16:51:19.256 [LAUGHTER] 2016-06-24 16:51:20.26 TERESA: THAT IS IT. 2016-06-24 16:51:23.298 HAVE A GREAT NIGHT. 2016-06-24 16:51:25.255 SEE YOU TOMORROW. 2016-06-24 16:51:26.256 [APPLAUSE] 2016-06-24 16:51:27.257 [CAPTIONING PERFORMED BY THE 2016-06-24 16:51:28.256 NATIONAL CAPTIONING INSTITUTE, 2016-06-24 16:51:28.256 WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS 2016-06-24 16:51:29.259 CAPTION CONTENT AND ACCURACY. 2016-06-24 16:51:29.26 VISIT NCICAP.ORG]