'Steadily and smoothly'

 

“I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?” – Richard Greenberg

Born in New York on this date in 1958, Greenberg is a playwright and television writer who has written more than three-dozen plays, including the multiple award-winning Take Me Out and the highly acclaimed Three Days of Rain, both finalists for The Pulitzer Prize.

Greenberg studied at Princeton under Joyce Carol Oates, then in the Yale School of Drama’s playwriting program and said he sometimes questioned whether he was in the right field, even though he started his career with The Oppenheimer Award for  "Best New Playwright" for The Bloodletters. 

 

 “When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill,” he said.  “When you're adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don't know, an accountant or someone who has a body of information. It's not all about temperament.” 

 

"I want to be a playwright  the way people are bank tellers.  I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly."