Nicky Silver, in conversation by phone from New York, live on the air, with host Richard Wolinsky and director John Dixon in the studio, recorded April 27, 2007.

Nicky Silver is the author of several successful plays, including "The Lyons," which premiered on Broadway in 2012, "Beautiful Child" and "Pterodactyls." At the time of the interview, his play 'Past Perfect" was making its world premiere at San Francisco's Theatre Rhino, directed by John Dixon.

Since that time, Nicky Silver has moved to London and has continued to write. His most recent play to premiere off-Broadway was "This Day Forward," in 2016. His play "Fat Men in Skirts" was filmed in German in 1998.