Edited sentence: "  This view of life stemmed from his being a working-class student in a prestigious boarding school.He describes his plays as centering around "outsiders in search of clarity.He specifically looks for characters who look at the world differently than everyone else.His aesthetic was encouraged by Christopher Durang at Juilliard.The young playwright has always thought that theatre is a place for absurd things to happen, which is why he tends to stay away from realism in his writings