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But then as I rode home on the bus — because classes were at Hampshire College, I rode the bus home — I thought, “Well, maybe I’ll start writing for the theater.” I knew nothing about theater, nothing. And she does have agency. Among the places we lived in Germany was a very small town, Höchst, that was a thousand years old.

It originally had a different title, didn’t it?

Suzan-Lori Parks: Fucking A. Her work is the subject of the PBS Film "The Topdog Diaries.”   In 2007, her project 365Days/365Plays was produced in over 700 theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history.

You’re wearing the rubber gloves. Actually, it was kindergarten and then you’d go to a different school for first grade, but you’d see some of the same people. I have things to show, and my writing all comes from listening. He doesn’t cut her up when she’s alive, although he does — well, anyway, you’ve got to read the play or see the play.

Your play In the Blood was inspired by Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

I heard someone talking about a woman named Saartjie Baartman, from the southern region of Africa. We’ve heard there was one high school teacher who actually discouraged you.

Suzan-Lori Parks: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am brandishing the sword, and there’s music, like Wagner playing, bumpa-da-bum-bum, and I’m cutting everything that doesn’t belong.

Will the weather be good?” Whatever. So we lived in Kentucky, we lived in Fort Knox. It was first grade and second grade. That was enough for my sort of psyche, but as an actor I would always want to look at the people.

Writing is still related to acting, because you’re creating a character.

Suzan-Lori Parks: Exactly.

Billie Holiday and as the showrunner/executive producer/head writer for the television show Genius: Aretha.

 In 2023 Parks was named among “TIME MAGAZINE’S 100.” Other notable accolades and awards include the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence in the Arts, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

I’m a desperate playwright. We’re in Washington, D.C. today, and there are a lot of people here who know what that’s like. I can’t hear anything, because I’m talking.

So you have to get out of the way of the play in order to write it down?

Suzan-Lori Parks: Yeah.

I don’t know if all languages do that, but it did that for me, thank God. Whew!

Have you used it since?

Suzan-Lori Parks: I was a German literature major. So my teachers would say, “Sound it out, sound it out,” and I had no clue.