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And it was uplifting to see Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English,” which I encountered last year at the Old Globe, rounding out a best play list that shores up faith in the future of intelligent playwriting on Broadway.

“Good Night, and Good Luck,” a deft stage translation of the movie chronicling CBS newsman Murrow’s heroic stand against Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communist witch-hunt, may not have made the playwriting cut.

Geffen Playhouse’s artistic director Tarell Alvin McCraney, also the chair of playwriting at Yale School of Drama, described you as “one of the most powerful writers I’ve encountered in my time as a professor.”

Grad school had its challenges, but the community I found in the playwriting department was such a gift.

How has your experience acting informed your playwriting?