Adam Rapp (born June 15, 1968) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician and film director. His play, Red Light Winter, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006. Read full biography of Adam Rapp →
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were... →
I have never successfully written in the third person. If there's a rhythm or a musicality that interests me, I become obsessed with the... →
I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me... →
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am... →
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... →
I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York... →
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of... →
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... →
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... →
The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, and everyone... →
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... →
When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do.... →
When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me... →
Adam Rapp (born June 15, 1968) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician and film director. His play, Red Light Winter, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006.