“I had a callback for a production at the Goodman Theatre to play Harpo Marx in Animal Crackers, and I was so emotionally ready for it—and I didn’t get the part,” said Strafford. “Actors deal with rejection all the time, and I usually shrug it off, but I had done so much emotional work related to getting the role that I just sat in my kitchen and wrote the words ‘F***, f***, f***, f***, f***’ over and over again. And then I wrote this line seemingly out of nowhere: ‘Imagine in one sniff every physical, emotional and sexual insecurity you’ve ever had disappears.‘”