Outside People

“An engaging and smart comedy of manners... Achingly true.”
- Charles Isherwood, New York Times

“A funny, tightly written dramedy. Speaks clearly about the matters that unite us as well as those that keep us apart.”
- Roma Torre, NY1

“An engaging new comedy of cultural misunderstanding… Dohrn deftly establishes the ways that tone – the elusive key for westerners struggling to master Mandarin – can take precedence over meaning… An affecting study of how love is, at heart, the struggle to establish a common language.”
- Brendan Lemon, Financial Times

“Dohrn throws bold elbows, parcels out his characters' epiphanies sparingly, and touches down on a satisfyingly grim note.”
- Scott Brown, New York Magazine

In modern day Beijing, a young American guy falls for a Chinese girl and then struggles to understand where she's coming from. A play about language, culture-shock, and trying to make connections across borders.

“An engaging and smart comedy of manners... Achingly true.”
- Charles Isherwood, New York Times

“A funny, tightly written dramedy. Speaks clearly about the matters that unite us as well as those that keep us apart.”
- Roma Torre, NY1

“Dohrn throws bold elbows, parcels out his characters' epiphanies sparingly, and touches down on a satisfyingly grim note.”
- Scott Brown, New York Magazine