Nonfiction
SELECTED ESSAYS
“I Watched My World Burn Down Twice” in The New York Times
“Dear Family” in Esquire
“Newtown, A New Play About the Sandy Hook Shooting” in Esquire
“An Irish Play Revisited” in The Irish Times
“That’s (Political) Entertainment” in American Theatre
“A Family Secret Fueled My OCD” in The Washington Post
“My Bird Today Promises a Story” in the Los Angeles Review of Books
“Confession as Transgression” in Poetry London
“In Praise of Poet Voice” in Literary Hub
“Dear Brother” in New England Review
“The Essential Value—and Deep Cost—of Reporting From War” in Literary Hub
“Without Evidence” in American Scholar
“Second-act Problems: What Comes Next” in American Theatre
“Second Acts: Theatre Post-Covid” in The Stage
“Write in Terror” in The Guardian
“A Playwright Reckons With the Gift of Creativity That Trauma Can Bring” in The Washington Post
“The Mistake No Dialogue Writer Should Ever Make” in Literary Hub
“It’s the Words That We Don’t Say That Scare Me So” in American Theatre
“Writing in the Wings” in American Scholar
“Life Shrinks: Lessons from a Chemo Quarantine” in the Times Literary Supplement
“Lost and Found, Anguish and Grace” on The Three Christs of Ypsilanti in the Times Literary Supplement
“Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage” in Literary Hub
“The Drama of Conflict” in The Paris Review
“Of Time and the Theatre” in Missouri Review and excerpted in Literary Hub