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The Lark Play Development recently provided me with an unforgettable Project Residency. It was an interesting process for me from the beginning. I'm used to theaters providing workshop space to either fulfill a grant requirement or to measure the production potential of a project. In other words, there's either no sense of nurture or it's very stressful. So it took me a Minute to realize that the Lark's Project Residency had built-in stresslessness and a judgment-free zone, and I could just relax and write.

Lloyd Suh and his cohorts laid down the rules, asked a few questions about creative expectations, and then let me and my team go to work. I must say, the 29 hours of workshop was probably THE most valuable experience I ever had on a new play. On one hand, the time and space to develop are precious and rare. That's a given. More important, I didn't realize the significance of a workshop environment that didn't default into a actor-driven process or a director-centric exploration. It was the playwright's process and no one else's. Lloyd Suh and the Lark team kept reminding me that I was captain of the ship.

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