I grew up in Largo and started working at 12 at my father's theater (the Largo Theatre), two blocks from the hotel .

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

I knew the Phoenix Theatre was going down, that's why I looked for another facility to direct, to do theater.

In all my years in theater, I have never been involved in anything as extraordinary as this. We didn't know which way to jump. To be involved in something so improvisatory, to use one's craft, well, you don't usually get asked to do things like this at my age.

In all my years in theater, I have never been involved in anything as extraordinary as this.

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