Rachel Dratch

When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.