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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.

Adam Rapp

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
ADAM RAPP

Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Behaving Couple Room Scene
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
ADAM RAPP

Death Move House Moving People Some Unwritten Wall
The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
ADAM RAPP

Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
ADAM RAPP

Focus Focused Rigorous Scheduling Show Time
If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPP

Day Directing Typical Writing
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
ADAM RAPP

Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
ADAM RAPP

Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
ADAM RAPP

Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
ADAM RAPP

Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
ADAM RAPP

Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
ADAM RAPP

Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
ADAM RAPP

Ability Conflict Ending Everyone Fair Minor Write
I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
ADAM RAPP

Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
ADAM RAPP

Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write

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