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The unKNOWN VARIABLE

A World Premiere Workshop Reading

Separated from her bābā in Iran and living in a strange new land, a determined young girl contacts the President, Santa Claus, and God to determine the unknown variable – when her father will be granted a Visa from the United States so they can be reunited.


This new play by Nahal Navidar explores the fractured nature of time and memory through the lens of familial separation. Since Trump’s mass division of migrant children from their parents, approximately 1,000 children remain separated. Written from lived experience, the playwright offers a window into the future and the lifelong trauma the parent and child experience when they are stripped of their most instinctive human need.

Friday, March 29th @7pm
Saturday, March 30th @2pm and 7pm

The Jarvis Square Theater

MEET THE TEAM

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Nahal Navidar
Playwright

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Joan Nahid
Performer, Ávā

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Adam El-Sharkawi
Performer, Bābā

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Antonio L.  Rodriguez
Performer, Chorus

Jacob C. Shuler
Dramaturg, Director

Erik Jonathan Shuler
Stage Manager

Allyson Leisure
Costume Designer

Kousha Navidar
Sound Designer

Wanees Zarour
Composer

Gallery

Time Magazines [2020-2024]

BLOG POST

TIME, The Unknown Variable

My Dear Hussein was meant to preview four years ago, today. Instead, four days before that, the pandemic shut down our production alongside almost every other production and public gathering across the globe. 

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