"The dolls would just lie off to the side on the carpet without any clothes on, but I could spend hours constructing these houses for them. I think this is related somehow to the kind of theater I make, which is as much concerned with space and architecture, construction and arrangement, as it is with any kind of story. Of course, I don't have actors lying around naked on rugs in my plays. And now I'm extremely interested in language, and what it does and what it sounds like. But that came later."

Kristen talks Barbie & Ken, theatrical heroes, and more