Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven
by RUSSELL DAVIS
Directed by GUS KAIKKONEN
Featuring:
ALIAH WHITMORE
​STEVEN MICHAEL WALTERS​

A young American painter encounters a wary Iranian college student waiting for a ferry that will not come until the next day. He respectfully offers her shelter for the night at his mother’s house nearby. This simple offer triggers a chain of events and a confrontation which threatens to engulf them all. Gracefully plumbing this collision of cultures, Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven speaks in a language painfully current and eloquent, unique and haunting. Rated PG-13.

Critics say...


"If you are reading this review at some distance from southwestern New Hampshire, seriously consider an excursion to see Russell Davis’ Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven." - Jim Kates, The Arts Fuse​

Just the right blend of philosophical and comical, Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven pairs two unlikely strangers from two different backgrounds together in an elegant and charming plot...Davis has captured acts of simple human kindness, and a few of cruelties, in words; Whitmore, Walters, Manfre and Haddara, in action."
- Cheyenne Heinselman, THE MONADNOCK LEDGER-TRANSCRIPT (Read the full review.)

"Sensitive and surprising drama.” – THE NEW YORK TIMES 
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“Funny, thoughtful, and with just the right amount of menace… “ – THE NEW YORKER

​Meet the Players

Scenic Design: Charlie Morgan
Lighting and Sound Design: Kevin Frazier
Costume Design: Bethany Mullins
Props Design: Emily Allinson
Production Stage Manager: Julia Perez*
Assistant Stage Manager: Christian Rodriguez
(*Denotes member of Actors' Equity.)
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Originally produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble, New York.
Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven is produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc, NYC 
www.broadwayplaypub.com