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Away from the high pressure world of the Ivy League, he finally had some free time to write. He worked with a producer, who then hired him to write a screenplay. Ross said that this job "was actually a real luxury, getting paid to write for somebody...
...Harvard goes, Ross does not see how Harvard has really helped him in his fiction writing. "I took English Car, which was quite a good class, [but] on the other hand I got away with doing very little." Before the class he approached writing in a "dillitantish" way, only dabbling with it in his spare time...
...Ross became interested in writing and producing theater through acting. "I got to be a pretty troublesome actor. I always had what I thought were better ideas and was always trying to tell everyone what to do," he said. He added that it was more that just the "power thing." He was more interested in the idea of "making this machine [a play] and setting it running...
Zora's Kitchen is Ross's first full-length play, having previously done only adaptions of plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream. He described this particular adaptation as very close to the original text, except that he and a friend cut it and arranged it with stage directions. This process, he said, prompted him to write the original script for Zora's Kitchen...
...Ross assumed the role and vision of a producer when he began to write the play. When writing he tried to "imagine what the character would say in a certain situation and act it out." He said this process was more helpful than what "they" tell you to do which is to "make little police files on each of your characters" complete with their "relevant family history, quirks and traits...