How the Light Gets In

Four isolated individuals cross paths in E.M. Lewis’s play How the Light Gets In, staged in the Gompertz Theatre at Florida Studio Theatre. The narrative follows a travel writer seeking adventure, a Japanese architect looking for purpose, a tattoo artist, and a teenage runaway whose lives unexpectedly intersect. Lewis constructs a thoughtful 90-minute, intermissionless drama about urban loneliness and the difficult process of healing through human connection. Instead of relying on broad spectacle, the production focuses on the quiet, gradual ways hope surfaces when strangers find the courage to actually see one another.