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Anna D Shapiro

I’m getting less and less interested in the problems of youth. I’m much more interested in the idea of emotional paralysis, and I find myself less interested in work that doesn’t have anything to do with a conversation about the world.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

I’m not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they’re losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I’m part of the problem. But I’m trying to figure out how to balance it.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

I would love to figure out a way to be less careful and more adventurous.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it’s different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don’t know if a lot of other people would see me that way.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

What I’ve understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don’t like speaking in front of people, I don’t think I’m bad at it.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it’s much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

I’m not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that’s the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.

– Anna D Shapiro

Anna D Shapiro

Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

– Anna D Shapiro

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