learned to have a very vivid imagination when you don't want to watch bruce lee ninja turtles and things like that so i've always enjoyed reading and writing to actually sit down and write the secret life jackie and jackie jackie is a fictional character and it actually started a couple years ago when i was on my way to the room with my husband and my house and home was very sick at that time and we were we didn't exactly know what was going down so it was a group of probably about fifteen as fifteen of play she gave it to her and who believed plays then he contacted me and asked me about make a dinner to a play now my producer george bur brought me a script he didn't even think anything about and he was like we got to do it he said this will be a wonderful stage play so that's how we think it happened that famous without a second doubt once he read it and why did you choose to direct it or is the director of this production well i chose the director because my vision when you're writing a book you actually look and you become each character that you write about me even from the new people as a waiter or you become each and every one of these characters so i knew that i would have to have more hands on in it because every last one of these girls are free and they are very good for you as they are supportive of the books they were support of the books and there was support to read the book and give me their feedback so when i told them somebody wanted to to make it into a play they each knew which keer to they were if you asked them if the book about them they'll tell you no because theoretically is not however each one of them just had a connection with a certain person in the book  you're here and me each and every last one of them came to me i mean because the first time that we did the audition we probably had about forty gas here but no no more the gas i was looking for and you know even though they were good they weren't who i was looking for but we kept moving forward and kept moving forward and as we move forward even work one has to without that person be in a place you know that just brought  even to the point to where dr barry scott was my last person i had to finance and i met with him probably about three weeks prior he's a model as well he was like a happy new york for three weeks that that just shows you how committed the people are in the play no we were her saying improv you illinois only one person lives in the western suburbs everybody else goes from park forest the man had to have park it takes everyone at least one hour and that's not including traffic that there's downtown downtown just to get here you know so that's sheer commitment i get  of secrets of there are so in the midst of all of that even though it is jackie secret become revealed you'll find out that each and every last one of these people have secrets of their been hasn't been challenged as much as it hasn't been like a financial challenge smaller sold in a thing what i want people to do is really just start being a lot more supportive of small independent things i don't think people realize that everyone before they get on the big screen you succumb to first and we as african americans have open up a beauty salon or this and that and we're not as supportive as other races are when it comes to things like that and i really think that that's something that we need to start being a little bit more supportive