Joel Kim Booster

Like if you wanted to direct and star in a play, you could do that.

If you wanted to, it was up to you to sort of cast it into, it was all DIY.

Um, and that was a really nice thing about going to a school of that size is that when everything is DIY, like it really teaches you how to go in and jump in and

undo it on your own and not have a lot of faculty support for every project that you were doing.

And so, yeah, I think like, I'd always written too.

I'd always been writing since I was a little kid, very casually, lots of like fan fiction, nothing serious.

Certainly never a play.

Like that was my first play that I had written was that year.

But I, you know, I worked at, I was consuming a lot.

You know, I worked at a movie rental store for four years.

I was watching a shit ton of movies.

I was consuming a lot of theater at my school, student run and otherwise.

And I just, yeah, I remember I was home on winter break and had just finished a movie.

I think it was like in her shoes with Cameron Diaz and Tony Clark.

And I wrote, I got the idea for my first play and wrote it over break and came back to school and produced it.

The idea, it was called Layover.

And it was this woman, her sister, who was depressed and had committed suicide.

And they had sort of an estranged relationship there.

Um, her sister who committed suicides, boyfriend at the time had a layover in Chicago and they were not close, but he, you know, asked to stay with her and she, and he, she learns who her sister was through her partner.

Um, and you know, there was a moment, there's a moment where sort of like,