“If I could change one thing about U.S. theater, theater companies would produce a wider, broader range of plays by women and men who fully represent the cultural complexity of twenty-first century U.S. culture. Theatergoers would then have access to a huge selection of diverse theatrical worlds that would challenge, entertain, delight and intrigue them…”
On making American theater more inclusive in “I Interview Playwrights Part 287: Anne Garcia-Romero” http://aszym.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-interview-playwrights-part-287-anne.html (Adam Szymkowicz, 2010)
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