Written by Patrick Chavis 

Last weekend, I met playwright Nick Juarez inside a mobile home record store in the middle of the hyper-hipster paradise known as “The LAB” in Costa Mesa, California. I’d never met Nick before, but he was the only person in the trailer, so I took a guess, and he greeted me nicely. We walked from the record store to a table near the middle of the Anti-mall. I started the interview by trying to get more information about the guy. Who is Nick? What inspires him to write? But he didn’t seem interested in himself. Instead, he focused on the kids in his new play Whisper all the Time and Estancia High School, the place that made him who he is today. Continue Reading