Her father worked in a factory and her mother "kept house", she said once – in a tone so elegantly ominous, she conjured an image of a woman holding up a full dwelling with seven children in it, with her bare hands. Yet, given she started writing plays aged nine, arguably she was only hastening a creative career that was inevitable.
Her father worked in a factory and her mother "kept house", she said once – in a tone so elegantly ominous, she conjured an image of a woman holding up a full dwelling with seven children in it, with her...
Yet, given she started writing plays aged nine, arguably she was only hastening a creative career that was inevitable.
Manhattan in the late 70s, and she was there at the height of the Aids crisis, a brutal time of mass bereavements and poisonous prejudice.
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Her father worked in a factory and her mother "kept house", she said once – in a tone so elegantly ominous, she conjured an image of a woman holding up a full dwelling with seven children in it, with her bare hands. Yet, given she started writing plays aged nine, arguably she was only hastening a creative career that was inevitable. Manhattan in the late 70s, and she was there at the height of the Aids crisis, a brutal time of mass bereavements and poisonous prejudice.
She grew up in Chicago with six younger siblings. If I hadn't met my gay friends I would be a suburban SUV-driving granny. They taught me the value of insurrection and fun.
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