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The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

Beth Henley

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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

BETH HENLEY

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
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I’m very into the first production of the show.

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I’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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Community Theatre
I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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Restless
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
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Louisiana Lucky
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

BETH HENLEY

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
BETH HENLEY

Christmas
Plays are so much more special if they’ve never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
BETH HENLEY
That’s what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
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Smoking
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
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Enlightening Playwright
What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn’t you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

BETH HENLEY

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn’t you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
BETH HENLEY

Long
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

BETH HENLEY

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
BETH HENLEY

Glorious
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

BETH HENLEY

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
BETH HENLEY
It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.

BETH HENLEY

It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.
BETH HENLEY
Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

BETH HENLEY

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
BETH HENLEY

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

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