Strangers/Extranjeras is a bilingual play about an inspiring friendship between a young optimistic U.S. volunteer and her generous Mayan Guatemalan host-mother. It premiered at The Rudyard Kipling in spring of 2009. It was based on the experiences of Co-Artistic Director Jennifer Thalman-Kepler and company member Charity Thompson Egland, who met while volunteering through the YAV (Young Adult Volunteer) program of the Presbyterian Church USA in Guatemala. That life-changing year made such an impression on both of them, and they still feels its impacts today. Out of a need to share their stories and lift up the stories of the women with whom they worked and with whom they developed such strong bonds, was born this unique 2-woman play. This same year, LFL artists again traveled to Guatemala during the summer as part of their Faith Stories Project, adding women from Presbyterian Churches in this USA as participants, and bridging the language and cultural barriers between the North American and Guatemalan women.