“We go in and try to be completely transparent with them: I am not a journalist, I’m a playwright, and I’m developing a piece that is creative and not going to be solely based on their lives but inspired by conversations that we have.”

— Lynn Nottage

On how the interview process is different when writing a work of fiction in “An Interview with Lynn Nottage” https://www.theintervalny.com/interviews/2015/10/an-interview-with-lynn-nottage/ in The Interval (2015 Oct 14)

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American playwright 1964

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