LLOYD RICHARDS: Why the theater? I guess the theater because I couldn't do anything else.

为什么选择了剧院？我认为选择剧院的原因，是因为我没办法做别的。

LLOYD RICHARDS: I run a program called the National Playwrights Conference.

我运营一个叫做全国剧作家大会的项目。

LLOYD RICHARDS: It was four hours and fifteen or twenty minutes—I say twenty; he says fifteen.

这部剧有四小时十五分或者二十分钟——我说是二十分钟；他说是十五分钟。

LLOYD RICHARDS: Now the fact was, with there being so few roles—and the fact was, I did not necessarily, in radio, come over as a black actor.

现在的情况是，因为角色太少了——而事实是，在电台里，我不一定要以黑人演员的身份出现。

LLOYD RICHARDS: Yes. So it's...so we take those playwrights who we select, and for one month we bring them together with very talented directors, talented actors, and we work on their scripts with them.

是的。所以我们把那些我们选择的剧作家——在一个月的时间里，我们把他们和非常有才华的导演、演员聚在一起，和他们一起创作剧本。

LLOYD RICHARDS: Those were people who began to inspire me in a very personal way because they were black, and there were very few of them, and they, in their exception, said, " Okay, something is possible."

这些人开始以一种非常个人化的方式激励我，因为他们是黑人，而这样的人很少，他们以作为例外的方式，表达了：“好吧，有些事是可能的。”

LLOYD RICHARDS: I know I have a picture, and I look at that picture sometimes, and in that picture, there were Ossie Davis, George Roy Hill, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, myself, and others, who have gone on to do other things.

我知道我有一张照片，我有时会看那张照片，在那张照片里，有奥西·戴维斯、乔治·罗伊·希尔、杰克·沃登、杰克·克卢格曼、我自己，还有其他人，他们都去做别的事情了。