Bridging the culture gap is the goal of Outside Inn, a world-premiere play to be performed in English -- and then in German.

Pittsburgh City Paper: "Were you asked to short-list cultures that don't understand each other these days, 'German' and 'American' mightn't make the cut. Yet the misunderstandings are there, as Melanie Dreyer learned after a job directing a 1997 U.S. production of Cabaret (a musical about Germans, adapted by Americans from a play by a Brit) led her to learn the German language and, eventually, to visit Germany."