they said verbatim.
tistic Director). I always thought
it would be great to work there
This is your fifth play to be
because it was the theatre I went
presented at George Street
to in college.
Playhouse. How did this relaMy first show there was The
tionship come about? I went to Toxic Avenger. I had written that
Rutgers and graduated in 1984. show with David Bryan, who I
I wasn’t writing plays then, but I wrote Memphis with. We’re two
knew about and went to George Jersey boys. We wrote the play
Street. When I started getting
very quickly and the producer
produced in the mid to late ‘90s, said what should we do with
George Street was the theatre
this? I said I’ve always wanted
I knew about, but I didn’t know
to work at George Street PlayDavid Saint (George Street’s Ar- house and I’m from Jersey. The
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