Through the Eye of a Needle

Through the Eye of a Needle

Summary: 

Through the Eye of a Needle is a working middle-class family dramedy about the Keen family dealing with the death of their daughter, Dana, a navy corpsman who recently died in the Iraq War. Larry copes with a tumbler of scotch or five, Barbara stubbornly sets an extra plate setting, while their straight-edge teenage daughter, Samantha, secretly uses Twitter to create a protest on the George Washington Bridge. Much to Larry’s annoyance, the self-righteous Pastor Bill Towers and his fragile wife, Shirley, invite themselves over for Christmas Eve dinner, and then Nasser, an Iraqi refugee, arrives at their door unannounced. They quickly learn he was Dana’s trusted military interpreter and that Dana has given Nasser as a “Christmas gift.” As they fight over to keep Nasser or not, tempers fly and secrets are revealed. Will the Keens be pulled further apart or will they find grace and redemption in this unexpected gift?

Accolades:

-World Premiere at The Road Theatre Company, Los Angeles, March-May 2018 (Stage Raw ‘TOP 10 PICK’ and Ovation Recommended)

-Workshop with UC Santa Barbara’s LAUNCH PAD: New Plays in Process, July 2017

-Finalist for Seven Devils Conference and LOCAL Theater's LOCAL Lab

-Selected for The Road Theatre's Seventh Annual Summer Playwrights Festival, 2016