Isaiah Stavchansky is the author of Anne Frank in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, which premiered in New York in July 2024, and the editor of the forthcoming Restless Books anthology, What This Place Makes Me: Contemporary Plays on Immigration, due out in April 2025.
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The following is adapted from the editor’s note introducing What This Place Makes Me: Contemporary Plays on Immigration, forthcoming from Re…