113 Quotes by Lynn Nottage

The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.

Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.

The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.

I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless.

I feel like 'Sweat' arrived on Broadway at the moment that it needed to. I feel like a commercial audience was not prepared for 'Ruined' or 'Intimate Apparel' for many different reasons.

I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world.

In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.

'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.

Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.