EST

2021

THE PHILOSOPHY

What I think I know right now.

You can’t own an idea. You can let it pass through you to become some piece of the world.

Plays are gestures towards expanding community around an idea. The idea is possessed, owned if you insist, by everyone. And when an idea transforms into a play, more people possess it. 

We sow seeds. We wait. They burst open in the darkness, they find their light. I’m a farmer. I come from sharecroppers and natural healers and soothsayers and conjures and church folk that still got the old spirits written on the inside of their bottom lip. 

Apart of my inheritance from my ancestors is nature. Queer as she is, she is for me. And so the natural world runs through my work like rivers. 

Extremes are natural. I find the divine in the extreme. 

I haven’t walked a straight-line in my whole life. 

As horrible a dancer as I am, I just love to move in curves. The plays bend around themselves so by the end, the crowd is looking over its own shoulder to see the mess we’ve made. 

Theater is brutal and delicate. And expensive. So. Very. Expensive.  

Finally, art should be both surprising and inevitable.