A musical uprising for the Earth
A musical uprising for the Earth
Dear Everything is a riveting story driven by galvanizing and emotional pop and folk music that speaks to the dialectic of our times – adults focused on surviving the now, and youth with a fierce eye on the future. With empathy, complexity and outrage it addresses the most pressing issue of our day – the climate crisis.
The piece is brought to life by a cast of ten and a narrator. In each city, a local youth choir will join the production backing up the cast.
Dear Everything tells an urgent story driven by galvanizing and emotional pop and folk music, that speaks to the dialectic of our times—adults focused on surviving the now as youth hold a fierce eye on the future. With empathy and outrage, it addresses the most pressing issue of our day—the climate crisis.
Born through the collective synergy of Tony Award-winning playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler); the Tony-winning director/Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the A.R.T., Diane Paulus (Pippin, Waitress); Grammy and Golden Globe-nominated songwriter Justin Tranter (Chappell Roan, Selena Gomez); singer and songwriter Caroline Pennell; songwriter and music producer Eren Cannata; and orchestrator Daniel Crean; with contributions by Tony Award winner, Idina Menzel, the U.S. tour is produced by V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women, gender expansive people and the Earth, in association with the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University.
The piece is brought to life by a cast of ten and a narrator. In each city, a local youth choir will join the production backing up the cast.
Dear Everything grew out of the urgent and profound need to respond to the current terrifying state of the climate crisis. How do we awaken ourselves to the current emergency which will eventually, without our full-scale intervention and response, swallow us whole? This is where Dear Everything comes in. The scale of the climate crisis requires the mobilization of millions to become active locally and globally.
Dear Everything follows a group of adults in a small town willing to sacrifice their forest for money, and the young people, led by Sophia, a teenage girl, whose determination to save the forest endows them with powers they never knew they had. It is a story that shows us what can happen when people break free from their individual mindsets to embrace collective action. Dear Everything explores how young people are navigating the climate crisis and facing the prospect of a future they are being told may not exist.
Dear Everything follows a group of adults in a small town willing to sacrifice their forest for money, and the young people, led by Sophia, a teenage girl, whose determination to save the forest endows them with powers they never knew they had. It is a story that shows us what can happen when people break free from their individual mindsets to embrace collective action. Dear Everything explores how young people are navigating the climate crisis and facing the prospect of a future they are being told may not exist.
Youth are leading the way in the climate movement. Dear Everything breaks through people’s denial and feelings of powerlessness.
This is a transformational project, one that will take a global, non-traditional path in order to engage the millions of new audiences who long to be an active part of change, and who will be energized by seeing themselves and their stories represented. It is a musical uprising, an artistic tool to amplify, and spread, and deepen the climate movement throughout the country and eventually the world.
Produced by V-Day, in association with American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, the project was born through the collective synergy of Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler), Tony and Obie Award-winning/ Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater, Diane Paulus. Grammy and Golden Globe-nominated songwriter Justin Tranter, Caroline Pennell, Eren Cannata, and Daniel Crean, with contributions by Tony and Obie Award-winner, Idina Menzel, and produced by Tony Montenieri, Adam McKay, Yellow Dot Studios and Willowrow Entertainment, and supported in part by the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Through our run at The American Repertory Theater and a sold out, one-night-only concert event at New York City’s Terminal 5, we have seen the impact of this piece and its ability to shift consciousness and ignite individuals to fight for the future of our planet.
Youth are leading the way in the climate movement. Dear Everything breaks through people’s denial and feelings of powerlessness. Dear Everything breaks through people’s denial and feelings of powerlessness and engages the millions of new audiences who long to be an active part of change, and who will be energized by seeing themselves and their stories represented. It is a musical uprising, an artistic tool to amplify, and spread, and deepen the climate movement throughout the country and eventually the world.
Today, 31 December, is the last day to make charitable donations in order to claim them on your 2025 US tax return. Your support over the years has meant the world to us, it fuels the V-Day movement, it makes everything possible.
As 2025 draws to a close, we are filled with gratitude for the survivors, artists, and activists who have made V-Day into a singular, ever-evolving global activist movement to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, and the Earth. In 2025, V-Day continued to boldly shatter norms and create spaces for grassroots dialogue through art and activism:
ONE BILLION RISING activists have been mobilizing worldwide our 2026 campaign - RISE FOR OUR BODIES, OUR EARTH, OUR FUTURE - to transform the architectures of violence and to disrupt the systems that violate, extract, diminish, exclude, and destroy.
At City of Joy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we have graduated 2,407 survivors to date. At the V-Day Safe House for Girls in Narok County, Kenya, girls continue to break taboos while dedicating themselves to their education and communities. VOICES, our interdisciplinary audio play and campaign grounded in Black women’s stories across the diaspora, is poised to launch in communities worldwide. Following its first tour, our newest artistic production - Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth - will take the stage at BAM in New York City on Earth Day 2026, featuring the iconic Jane Fonda as narrator. (For our full update, visit: vday.link/Gratitude2025)
This giving season, we invite you to stand with us and support the movement as we head into the new year. Your year end donation will fuel all this work. DONATE TODAY. Visit: vday.org/donate.
Every act of solidarity makes a difference.
With gratitude,
All of us at V-Day, City of Joy, One Billion Rising & VOICES
Your support over the years has meant the world to us. As 2025 draws to a close, we are filled with gratitude for the survivors, artists, and activists who have made V-Day into a singular, ever-evolving global activist movement to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, and the Earth. In 2025, V-Day continued to boldly shatter norms and create spaces for grassroots dialogue through art and activism:
ONE BILLION RISING activists have been mobilizing worldwide our 2026 campaign - RISE FOR OUR BODIES, OUR EARTH, OUR FUTURE - to transform the architectures of violence and to disrupt the systems that violate, extract, diminish, exclude, and destroy.
•At City of Joy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we have graduated 2,407 survivors to date - young women who have turned their pain into power, healing themselves as they work to transform the Congo, advancing change, building vital grassroots programs that meet the immediate needs of their communities.
•At the V-Day Safe House for Girls in Narok County, Kenya, girls continue to break taboos - rejecting female genital mutilation and early childhood marriage while dedicating themselves to their education and communities.
•VOICES, our interdisciplinary audio play and campaign grounded in Black women’s stories across the diaspora, is poised to launch in communities worldwide and is accompanied by a solidarity toolkit to guide listeners toward action.
•Following its first tour, our newest artistic production - Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth - will take the stage at BAM in New York City on Earth Day 2026, featuring the iconic Jane Fonda as narrator. Created as theater for the people, to date 90% of the seats have been gifted to students, climate activists, farmers, front line workers AND over $90k in grants have been awarded to youth-led climate groups.
•This giving season, we invite you to stand with us and support the movement as we head into the new year. DONATE TODAY. Visit: vday.org/donate.
•For our full update, visit: vday.link/Gratitude2025
Every act of solidarity makes a difference.
With gratitude,
All of us at V-Day, City of Joy, One Billion Rising & VOICES
Making your plans for 2026? Be sure to join us in NYC on Earth Day (April 22) to see the NYC premier of DEAR EVERYTHING, a musical uprising for the Earth. Actor, author, climate activist & V-Day Board member Jane Fonda joins the cast in the role of the narrator. You don’t want to miss this!
Tickets are on sale now at bam.org/dear-everything.
“I am honored to have the opportunity to stand on the BAM stage, alongside these powerful performers to bring Dear Everything to New York. Our planet is burning from human-made climate catastrophe, and we need to join together to confront this. Dear Everything is about the power of solidarity and it gives us the anthems we need for the job.” – Jane Fonda (to People Magazine: bit.ly/3KG9MHK)
Produced by BAM and V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women, gender expansive people, and the Earth, in association with the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University.
Visit deareverythingonstage.org for more info about the project.
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This Giving Tuesday JOIN US in celebrating and supporting our work and shared vision for a world free from violence. A world where all women, gender expansive people, girls, and the Earth thrive, rising in a community of fierce solidarity. This giving season, support V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against all women, gender expansive people, girls, and the Earth.
Your solidarity fuels everything we do.
•Donate today: vday.org/donate
•Rise with us: onebillionrising.org
(31 December is the last day to make charitable donations to claim them on your 2025 US tax return. Your contribution fuels the work of V-Day, One Billion Rising, VOICES, Dear Everything, City of Joy, the Beyond Incarceration Project & the V-Day Safe House for the Girls.)
#GivingTuesday #VDay #1BillionRising #CityOfJoy #UntilTheViolenceStops #TurningPainToPower
As we write, survivors, artists and activists in communities around the world are bringing the 2026 theme - RISE FOR OUR BODIES, OUR EARTH, OUR FUTURE - to life. Through a wave of launch events, they are setting the stage for a powerful 14th year of One Billion Rising.
We invite you to celebrate and support our work and shared vision for a world free from violence. A world where all women, gender expansive people, girls, and the Earth thrive, rising in a community of fierce solidarity. This giving season, support V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against all women, gender expansive people, girls, and the Earth.
•Donate today: vday.org/donate
•Rise with us: onebillionrising.org
•Read our full message at: vday.link/WithGratitude2025
Your solidarity fuels everything we do. With our deepest gratitude,
All of us at V-Day, City of Joy, One Billion Rising & VOICES
P.S. If your gift is already on its way, thank you.
(31 December is the last day to make charitable donations to claim them on your 2025 US tax return. Your contribution fuels the work of V-Day, One Billion Rising, VOICES, Dear Everything, City of Joy, the Beyond Incarceration Project & the V-Day Safe House for the Girls.)
#VDay #1BillionRising #CityOfJoy #UntilTheViolenceStops #TurningPainToPower
DEAR EVERYTHING’s Fall Tour is a Wrap! Endless gratitude to our cast, creatives, crew, youth council, activists, choirs, funders, host committees, everyone at V-Day and ART, and the audiences who made it all possible! Dear Everything was created to be theater for the people - 4 CITIES, 3000 PEOPLE, 18 CLIMATE GROUPS FUNDED!
Next stop, BAM in NYC! JOIN us at BAM in NYC on Earth Day (April 22) 2026. Tickets are on sale now for BAM members, and go on sale to the public on October 30th at BAM.org.
This is a transformational project, one that will take a global, non-traditional path in order to engage the millions of new audiences who long to be an active part of change, and who will be energized by seeing themselves and their stories represented.
For our full recap: bit.ly/2025tourrecap
#DearEverything #VDay #UntilTheViolenceStops
Salt Lake City ❤️🦉🌳!!Gratitude to our cast and creatives for their stunning, powerful performance in Salt Lake City for the last night of our one-night-only Fall four-city Fall tour! 🌍✨Deep thanks to Darren Parry who opened the evening with a blessing, with a call for balance, wholeness, and “Tending the Sacred” which creates the conditions for a rising Great Salt Lake. To the amazing Terry Tempest Williams whose work inspired the creation of Dear Everything and inspires us daily. To Terry and Geralyn Dreyfous and Jacki Zehner, and Madison, Annalise & Jillian for your tremendous support that made the evening possible and for gathering the community.
Our huge appreciation for Maya Penn and for the Salt Lake City Dear Everything Youth Council — Katherine Blackburn, Jake Dreyfous, Cael Crosby, India Elliot, Jenessa Jimoh, Mya Karbasi, Liam LaMalfa, and Kitty Chamberlain for showing up, for your spectacular work in coalition, gathering students and activists and EVERYONE, filling well over 700 seats with deep solidarity and shared love for the Earth 💚 BRAVA to the Rise Up Children’s Choir and Youth Theatre at the U for your powerful performance as the Earth Choir! 🙌 And to Nan Seymour/Making Waves Artist Collaborative and all the Great Salt Lake puppets - from baby bison to pelicans to phalaropes and brine shrimp - for greeting the audience out front 🌏❤️
As Terry wrote: “Friends, there is nothing sentimental here — It is how the world changes — and it does change. Last night in Salt Lake City was living proof. Nobody wanted to leave. We all needed this, a coming together in the name of community — determined to bring water to our Sacred Mother Lake.💙 And we will. Wherever you are, the land is calling out to you to act and protect what has always protected us: Beauty, Art, and taking care of each other.”
Cc: @shoshoneelder, @youthcoalitiongsl, @ignite.utah, @growtheflowutah, @riseupchildrenschoir, @uuyouththeatre, ttwillet, @utahfilmcenter, @nan_seymour, @_shemoney_
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🎥: Filmed October 4, 2025 at Union Event Center by Mystic Swan Studios.
Dear Everything lit up Los Angeles with music, movement, and the power of youth rising for the Earth. Get a glimpse inside with this powerful recap! 🌍✨
Youth are at the heart of Dear Everything. Filmmaker, entrepreneur, V-Day Board member, and climate activist @mayasideas created the Dear Everything Youth Councils — inviting young activists in each city to get involved, share their climate work, and showcase art that reimagines our planet’s future. Maya also designed the show’s stunning poster art. 🎨🌱
Special thanks to our Los Angeles Youth Council — Penelope Oliver (@allaccessarts_), Kevin J. Patel (@oneupaction), and Genesis Butler (@youthclimatesave) — and to Monique Coleman, who joined us onstage to celebrate their work. 🙌
Deep gratitude to the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (@lachildrenschorus) for their breathtaking performance as our “Earth Choir.” 💚
Produced by V-Day, in association with the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, Dear Everything features an extraordinary company — Crystal Monee Hall, YDE, Paravi, Luke Ferrari, Michael Williams, Brittany Campbell, Ben Thompson, Javier Muñoz, Laurel Harris, and Terence Archie.
Created by V (formerly Eve Ensler), with direction by Diane Paulus, music by Justin Tranter, Caroline Pennell, Eren Cannata, and orchestrations by Daniel Crean, with contributions by Idina Menzel — this musical uprising will continue to ignite hearts and action for our planet with its next performance at BAM in NYC on Earth Day (April 22) 2026. 🌏❤️
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