Portillos and Pitas is a devised performance created by undergraduate and graduate actors at California State University, Los Angeles. It explores immigration, racism, sexism, and terrorism through the lens of the family. A collaboration with a Lebanese filmmaker and director. The play mixes video, text, and movement in its examination of the walls and borderlands from the American Southwest and the Middle East. The text merges excerpts from government documents, ancient Aztec and Islamic poetry, and original writing by Joshua L. Truett and some of the cast members. The performance resulted from a devising process between the director (Feghali), dramaturg and Co-Director (Truett), and the cast.