American Dream, el sueño del otro lado (the dream of the other side) follows the lives of seven characters, each of them crossing borders—personal, political, transnational.  The play is set in San Diego, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and the U.S./Mexico border, during the early years of the Obama Administration, a peak of anti-immigrant sentiment. Tom and Cara, a recently divorced couple, are attempting in very different ways to rebuild their lives.  Tom is a successful architect of 45 who has come out late; he’s also the father with Cara of a teenage girl, Julie.  Tom travels to Mexico and falls in love for the first time in his life—with his 25 year old Spanish teacher, Salvador.  Cara, a business executive who easily controls her professional life, cannot command what she wants the most—her old life back with Tom, who is still her closest friend.  Tom’s and Cara’s futures lie across seemingly impenetrable borders.  During the course of the play, the characters confront their own frontiers as they try, each one, to cross with their dreams to the other side. The play received its world premiere at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center in 2013 and runs about two hours.