I conceived the idea for this play after watching a documentary called “Streetwise” more than two decades ago. It gave me a sense of déjà vu. The characters in it reminded me chillingly of the young street kids I met when I was a teenager. The documentary itself was a derivative of a Life Magazine article about homeless kids in Seattle called “Streets of the Lost”. It brought me to tears and to this day, twenty-six years later I can’t get the images of that video out of my mind. Although I’d always thought about writing a play, which would be loosely based on that documentary, I didn’t really type the first word of Dragonfly until fall 2009.