Biography

Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1984.

Ming Cho Lee is a truly great man and generous teacher, and I learned a lot about plays and design and life on earth auditing his set-design class at Yale.

We expect certain behaviors of our partners because we think we know them so well, as well as we know ourselves practically, and we're sending little messages about our predicted outcomes that I think can't help but have an effect.

How to go on living in the face of death? That's everybody's conundrum. I mean, we know death is inevitable. How do we most fully live our lives as our deaths draw nearer by the day?

We sort of fetishize happiness, I think, in our culture. And that can prevent us sometimes from actually living in the now, or the now-ish, anyway.

Expectation has everything to do with how we relate to one another all day long, with strangers, acquaintances and intimates.