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How and why did you get involved with the production of Strangers at the Gate?

I had previously produced an off-Broadway play, Lost and Guided, about refugees coming to America.

My work in theatre intersects with medicine, conflict regions (fancy term for war zones) and refugees. I do not like that so many in America view refugees as beggars and "moochers" off of society. I grew up hearing the story of the voyage of the "Saint Louis", in which Jewish refugees from Europe were denied entry in Cuba and America in 1939, and I made a pledge to myself that if refugees were denied entry again or discriminated against on the basis of religion, I would do something about it.

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I then made a short film, Aleppo, about an immigrant Syrian American doctor. She is at the top of American society and then struggles with head trauma after returning from a trip to Syria to volunteer.

This theatrical work was intended to change