Adam Rapp
Adam Rapp
Adam Rappis an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician and film director. His play, Red Light Winter, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth15 June 1968
CountryUnited States of America
thinking authorship working-it
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.
thinking play littles
I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
couple rooms actors
When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
matter hats directors
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.
couple writing games
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes, I'll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
jobs hate thinking
I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
lying actors bigs
I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.
consist few greatest modern people room work works
Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.
time uncertain
I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.
fit hang jock nerd sort
I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn't look like a nerd. I never really fit into any social set.
edges fan love musical musicals noble per plays straight structure
I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.
anarchy dominated drove hairy life lines physical towel younger
There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class.
drafts eat period tend time until
I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. 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. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry.
becomes third using
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.