75 first came to Trinity her ambition was to be an opera singer. Today, after 25 years and a circuitous journey through poetry, book publishing, soap opera scriptwriting, and teaching, she has developed one of the most distinctive voices in American culture. Instead of an operatic voice, however, hers is the voice of an award-winning playwright.
Writers tend to be late bloomers.
The difficult process, Egloff believes, began years ago in a class at Trinity. Egloff discovered that writing was a permanent obsession while an undergraduate working as an editor of The Trinity Review. As a senior, her fervor carried her into a play writing class. Egloff has found her voice, and it has resonated in theaters throughout this country as well as in Europe and Australia. The path to her current status began while she was a student at Trinity.