The play is focused on the lives of a group of women who live in poverty in a post-apocalyptic Re-United States of America. A man from exile is found nearby and the discovery of knowledge shatters the reality for the women. "A House Full of Letters" delves into class systems, young, romantic love, religion, government control and the passion to live despite the odds.
What started out as a class assignment for Kit Steinkellner (Author), a graduate film student specializing in playwriting who penned the play as an undergraduate theater student at UCLA, far exceeded its humble beginnings at the closet-like Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica. The cast entered the play in the American College Theater Festival before the initial run, but no one anticipated that they would actually win.
However, Steinkellner won the National Student Playwriting Award in the American College Theater Festival, an award that earned the play a spot as one of four full-length productions that was showcased at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. in the 1990s.
"The Kennedy Center wanted this to be an educational experience...and it was."