As we head into rehearsals for What The Constitution Means to Me, WAM’s Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston sat down to ask playwright Heidi Schreck a few questions.

Heidi Schreck is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. What the Constitution Means to Me was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist, won the Obie Award and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. Heidi also received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance of an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. Her other plays include: Grand Concourse, Creature, There Are No More Big Secrets and The Consultant. Her screenwriting credits include Nurse Jackie and Billions. Heidi also wrote and co-executive produced the Joey Soloway Amazon series I Love Dick. She currently has three television projects in development. As an actor Heidi has performed at Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theatre (Shakespeare in the Park); MTC, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, The Foundry, Clubbed Thumb, The Women’s Project, The Roundabout, Williamstown, Berkeley Rep, Center Theatre Group, and with The Talking Band. 

What the Constitution Means to Me was named Best Play of the Year 2019 by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, TIME, Hollywood Reporter, New Yorker, Newsweek, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly. NPR named it one of the “50 Great Pop Culture Moments” of 2019. Heidi was awarded Smithsonian magazine’s 2019 American Ingenuity Award and she received the 2019 Benjamin Hadley Danks Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters.

Tickets for the WAM Theatre / Berkshire Theater Group production can be purchased HERE.