The (very) short play Charlotte by Academy Award-nominated Puerto Rican writer, José Rivera, has been a pleasure to guide to life and has offered me shelter during a summer storm. Rivera’s work has had a home on my shelf for quite some time and it is truly an honor to be able to realize his words. With Felix offering Charlotte refuge and a meal in his Manhattan studio apartment, we stumble into an off-balanced exercise in miracles, but Charlotte makes it clear, “You don’t have to be six foot ten and weigh three hundred pounds to be dangerous.” Based on a real-life encounter by the playwright, this volatile connection between two strangers in the middle of a New York City thunderstorm begs us to reflect on the dangers and vulnerabilities we face in pursuit of our basic needs. The play teases the idea that either God or the Devil is in the apartment, and as an audience, we are begged to wait until the final moments to decide.