CLOSELY RELATED KEYS BY WENDY GRAF

Winner, Best World Premiere Play, Stage Scene LA (2013)

The carefully constructed life of Julie Dolan, an African-American attorney with a career on the rise, begins to crumble when her Iraqi half-sister, Neyla—whom she never knew existed—shows up at her door. Neyla has fled Iraq to audition for Julliard as a musician, but Julie suspects there is more to her story. This hard-hitting drama about family conflict and clashing cultures shares a touching story of empathy and understanding, as both sisters struggle to come to terms with their pasts and prejudices in order to move forward as a family.