This article explores how drama pedagogy in the foreign language classroom serves as a unique avenue for approaching the global issue of migration in the context of German-speaking Europe. The article focuses on how staging a contemporary play about migration, such as Roland Schimmelpfennig's "Der goldene Drache" (2009), in German for an English-speaking student and community audience can serve as a particularly rich example of cross-cultural translation. The article outlines the various steps in experiential learning involved in a German-language drama course and reflects on the potential for students and their instructor to be culturally transformed through the language of drama and the representation of migration. A brief discussion of Schimmelpfennig's play and its production in the context of a German drama course at a Midwestern university illustrates what the performance and pedagogy of migration might look like in the German foreign language classroom.