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.

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.