Playing Reality Winner without stunts inIs This a Room.
Is This a Roombegins previews at the Lyceum Theatre September 24.
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We spoke in mid-August.
When did you hear that youre going to Broadway?About a month ago.
Thats all?Yeah.
Were doing auditions next week and then well start, I think, in late September.
Youre laughing because maybe you think thats really soon!
To me, thats like,I guess its how it works?And then Im terrified.
So did reading this feel like sitting down with a play?
Tina did this very wild thing, which was put in a row of audience members across the front.
How do you go about playing a real person?
Is it impersonation or channeling or creating something new?I could never think of this as an impersonation.
Thats so not interesting to me.
And then I heard Billie speak, and she sounded like my mom.
The project was about us trying to figure out how to make that very dry text sing.
I wrote to Reality I honestly dont even rememberwhatI wrote.
Are you still in touch with her?Tina has been, on a Zoom call.
Intimidating?Shes a big sister!
I slept a little better.
Is there anything were seeing onstage in your performance that connects back to that family?The pets.
And her mom also mentioned that that was, like, the most important thing to her.
Is this all a method you learned?
You trained at NYU, right?I did.
[Scrunches up her face.]
We metabolize different, like, different, whats it called … [Long pause.]
For the record, I wasnt a good student.
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