Jo Reed: Can you remember the first time you saw the whole play of A Strange Loop mounted at Playwrights Horizons?

Michael R. Jackson: Yeah. I mean, it was our first preview was-- I still was tinkering. We got to do that first preview and we could just tell that it was resonating with people and so, it just felt very exciting to see this story and like emotional to like watch both for me having gone through the whole arc of things in order to write it, but also just actually seeing the story of a black, fat, gay man go from like hating himself to loving himself or like accepting himself, at least. That arc for me was like extremely moving with this ensemble of other black queer bodies on stage. I find that very moving to watch. I wrote this show also because I never had seen it.