“Three years ago, Sarah Kennedy thought she was hired as a translator for a corporate military prison in Baghdad, only to discover that she would be acting as an interrogator instead, retrieving information from prisoners of war — by any means necessary. Now, Lily Strauss, a disgraced reporter in the waning days of newspaper journalism, must uncover Sarah's story, cutting through webs of corporate lies and government deception until finally faced with the choice between her own journalistic ideals and the devastating consequences of telling the truth. A political thriller, ON THE HEAD OF A PIN is an exploration of who watches the watchers and what happens when they look away.”
There’s that thing about how all Batman villains started because they had One Bad Day, which then radicalized them into a life of kite-related crime or whatever. My sophomore year of college, I started writing this play at a particularly rough moment. Four years later, some friends and I put the show up at an off-off broadway space on 133rd Street. A few months after that, we lucked into a slot at 59E59 Theaters. My friends and I poured our hearts into that production — blood, sweat, and tears don’t even start to cover it. But knowing that I’ll forever share that memory with Sofia Lauwers, Devin Harrigan, Marcus Callendar, James Ortiz, Jason Ralph, Jennifer Loring, Will Gallacher, Jen Tullock, Benjamin Bales Karlin, Sarah Dowling, Lily Egan, and Zach Pizza is everything to me. I’ll never ever know how to express my gratitude for that time but I will spend the rest of my life trying.
