Jeffrey Seller

And he can't, like, he's banging on the door.

and no one's coming, and then finally this woman comes out, and she is like, you know, like, she's wearing like a T-shirt dress, and she's like kind of shaking her head, no, no, no, meaning like whoever he's looking for isn't here.

And then, um, from the other side of the house, this guy comes around and he starts trying to kind of run away.

And my six-foot-three, 250-pound father starts chasing after him.

And then he winds up seeing, you know, getting him on the sidewalk in front of the next-door neighbor's house.

And then the neighbor, who's actually living in the house next door, opens the door and says, leave him alone.

And then my father serves him the paper.

And then that guy, um,

screams to my father, get out of here, you pig.

And he used the F word.

And then my father ran up and put his hand through his window.

I guess it became the greatest new world I could have ever discovered.

This world where we make plays and invent dialogue and create characters and build sets.

And I took it very seriously and I was incredibly rewarded by the audience reactions.

It was the community, it was the youth theater play, yeah.

Correct.

Well, that was the first step I took toward becoming a producer because you know what the most important decision I ever make is as a producer?

What play to produce.

And is that a reflection of my aesthetic, my values, my likes, the characters I care about?

So that was a huge moment for me.