"Charlaine "Charlayne" Woodard" is an United States/American film, theatre/stage and television actress and playwright. She has written four plays, titled Pretty Fire, Neat, In Real Life, which she starred in, and "Flight".

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I talk to my girlfriends. And I have three sisters. I talk to them on the phone every day.

But in the African and African American tradition, stories are fitted to an occasion. You have stories for holidays and for weddings and for horrible events.

I got Maxwell just before we moved to Los Angeles.

You can't just snatch the boy down out of that tree.

I've done major rewrites, ... Instead of a kids play, it's now more of a multigenerational play, for a multigenerational audience.

[In] Flight, ... to create an evening where these people would have to pull themselves up with the help of stories.