Marc Chun is not a professional playwright by any stretch of the imagination, but had his plays produced in tiny theaters in LA and NY. Of one of his plays, the New York Times wrote that he "... conducts this chamber symphony with impressive élan" (forcing him to look up the word 'élan') and that, "... you get the consoling and melancholy feeling that an intelligent young man is asking the right questions about life, the ones he'll grow old pondering” (and yes, art can just ask key questions, and need not answer them). (His mom, by contrast, also wrote, "Your plays are so weird; would it kill you to just write a nice little comedy?")..