We dream of giving birth to new classics. We strive to create new heroes, well, actually heroines. There is a glut of heroes both in Hollywood and New York. So, we have become dauntless crusaders, brave warriors waging war with MTV, Disney animation after animation after animation and endless tired stagings of Winnie the Pooh. Why don't you write for adults, people say.
Kids have no money.
What they lack in quality time, parents make up for in indulgences, cultural and otherwise, for their children. There is gold in them there hills. The truth is, we youth writers do end up writing for adults as much as we write for their offspring. Aside from sitting through our plays with their children, adults direct and act in our shows, publish them and judge them for playwriting contests and grants. The least we can do is incorporate a whole other adult level of humor and thematic material into our work to entertain them.