Stephen Adly Guirgis
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Stephen Adly Guirgis is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He is a member and a former co-artistic director of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced both Off-Broadway and on Broadway as well as in the UK. His play Between Riverside and Crazy won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
CountryUnited States of America
ask began god kid needed talk
When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.
matters people reinforced september stories whatever
September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.
positive work
One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.
good
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
offending raised
I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.
lived women
I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.
entire informs life lived
I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.
advance characters social time trying
I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.
good life work
The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.