David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaireis an American playwright, lyricist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth30 November 1969
CountryUnited States of America
events unlikely
So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ...
cash change charge check course people
Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your words. People can give you notes, but you don't have to take them. In Hollywood you take them and you cash your check and that's your job. It's very different.
charge director mostly pictures stage terms visual
Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night.
class age identity
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.
men totems bottom
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
writing dark people
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
play outsiders clarity
My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.
writing passion play
I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.
hard-work opportunity thinking
We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.
class identity knows
Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
writing thinking who-i-am
I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.
writing rabbits looks
I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.
musical want ifs
I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.
writing play nazi
Only assholes write plays about Nazis.