Through the Eye of a Needle received is world premiere with The Road Theatre in Los Angeles, 2018.

Through the Eye of a Needle (formerly known as A Merry Little Christmas)
Workshop with Launch Pad at UC Santa Barbara, July 2017;
Finalist for ID Theater, Seven Devils Conference, 2017;
Finalist for LOCAL Theater's LOCAL Lab, 2017;
Semi-finalist for O'Neill Playwrights Conference, 2017;
Semi-finalist for Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2017;
Selected for The Road Theatre's Seventh Annual Summer Playwrights Festival, 2016, Los Angeles

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?