Lindsay Mendez Quotes

I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.

I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called 'Potential Space.'

I am an internationally produced playwright.

I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I think that there's honor in being a good artist, and there's honor in being a good 'craftsperson.'

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays.

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.