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ABOUT THE ENOUGH! NATIONWIDE READING
ENOUGH! invites YOU to attend staged readings of this year’s plays in your community.
On October 6, 2025, six of the plays submitted through our nationwide call in Spring 2025 will be presented in an evening of readings staged simultaneously by theaters, schools, and community groups across the country.
Nearly 3,000 artists in more than 150 communities have participated across our three previous Nationwide Readings. Many have used ENOUGH! to forge meaningful community partnerships and create space for the youth of their area to be seen and heard.
Our teens are looking for answers on how to avoid becoming another statistic and saying, "Enough is enough."
Will you join them?
2025 Campaign Sponsors
2025 partner spotlights
READING SITES
2025 READING SITES
Search by State Abbreviations (NY, IL, CA, etc.) by clicking on "Search by Location" at the top of the list.
Organization | Website | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
360 Theatre School/ Bak Middle School Of The Arts (FL) | https://www.instagram.com/360theatreschool/ | West Palm Beach | FL |
All in Productions (WI) | https://allin-mke.com/enough-plays-to-end-gun-violence/ | Milwaukee | WI |
Alleyway Theatre (NY) | https://www.alleyway.com/ | Buffalo | NY |
Alliance Theatre (GA) | https://www.alliancetheatre.org/events/enough-plays-end-gun-violence-2025 | Atlanta | GA |
American Lives Theatre (IN) | www.americanlivestheatre.org | Indianapolis | IN |
Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (AK) | Anchorage | AK | |
Applause Community Theatre (MN) | https://www.act-mn.org/enough2025 | St. Paul | MN |
Arizona State University / Prism Theatre Company / Black Theatre organization (AZ) | Tempe | AZ | |
Asante Art Institute of Indianapolis (IN) | asanteartinstitute.org | Indianapolis | IN |
Asbury Community Theatre (NY) | www.asburyfirst.org | Rochester | NY |
Asheville High Theatre/Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective (NC) | https://sites.google.com/acsgmail.net/asheville-high-theatre/home | Asheville | NC |
b.unity (IL) | https://www.wearebunity.org/ | Bolingbrook | IL |
Baumholder Middle High School (Germany) | Germany | ||
Blue Box Theatre (MN) | https://www.facebook.com/MomsDemandActionND/ | Dilworth | MN |
Bridge Street Theatre (NY) | https://bridgest.org/enough-plays-to-end-gun-violence/ | Catskill | NY |
Burning Coal Theatre Co (NC) | https://burningcoal.org/special-performance-enough/ | Raleigh | NC |
California State University - Fullerton: Department of Theatre & Dance (CA) | https://www.fullerton.edu/arts/ | Fullerton | CA |
CCNY Graduate Program in Educational Theatre (NY) [Digital] | https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/edtheatre | New York | NY |
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (MD) | https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/enough-plays-end-gun-violence | College Park | MD |
CT Against Gun Violence Education Fund (CT) | www.cagv.org | Bridgeport | CT |
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2025 National Producing Partners
BOLD VITAL
PROVOCATIVE
2025 PLAYS
Holding Space ● Oh Look, Another School Shooting!
Nobody Cares About Death ● The Perfect Victim
We Didn't Have to Meet Here ● Under Wraps
Holding Space
by Abby Dougherty
When tragedy strikes, how do you respond? Thrown together after a school protest goes wrong, Katherine and Lucy must figure out what’s right as they confront their limits–and their potential–in making change.
Abby Dougherty (she/her, Georgia) is a musician, performer, and playwright from Canton, Georgia. Her work seeks to provide an unbiased perspective on modern issues, using humor and rhetoric to connect with audiences. She has devised pieces with the Alliance Theatre through the Palefsky Collision Project and Teen Ensemble, and in Fall 2025, she will attend Brenau University to pursue a BFA in Musical Theatre. Abby's work is in a wide range of formats, ranging from music composition to books to plays, as seen in her ENOUGH! play, Holding Space. She has recently finished her high school theatre career, having performed with Academy St Theatre Group in Anastasia (The Dowager Empress) and Creekview High School's production of Mamma Mia! (Sophie). She is incredibly grateful to be recognized by ENOUGH! and share her first play with the world. Currently, she is working towards her goal of writing her first musical. But when she isn't writing or performing, Abby enjoys playing piano, exercising, and watching Trolls, her favorite movie (ironically, but not ironically).
Oh Look, Another School Shooting!
by Matias Finley
After a shooting, whose story takes center stage? The victims? The shooter? Or everybody watching? A young student is forced to face the chilling reality that when truth becomes subject to competing agendas, healing becomes an afterthought.
Matias Finley (he/him, Wisconsin) is an aspiring writer, actor, and musician who is passionate about the craft of storytelling. The son of a Chilean immigrant and a native Wisconsinite, he was raised in Madison, Wisconsin, where he currently lives. Storytelling has always been a deep part of Matias' life, and he has been writing ever since he can remember, whether it be superhero comics, fantasy novels, or music. This passion found its expression in theatre starting with his first musical, "Fiddler on the Roof" when he was in the third grade. Since then, he has worked as an actor, writer, musician, and director for numerous theatrical productions, always striving for excellence, community, and truth. He hopes to use his writing to help heal a broken world by pointing people to what is True, Good, and Beautiful. Matias will be graduating from Abundant Life Christian School in 2026 and plans to study theatre and music.
Nobody Cares About Death
by Ian Hodges
Death has written a book, and boy, does he have a lot to say. In his first televised interview, Death reveals he’s been getting a lot busier lately–and he’s really sick of visiting schools. A searing look at the cycles of violence we’ve grown too numb to break.
Ian Hodges (he/him, Florida) is a Junior at Martin County High School. He is a playwright, writer, director, and editor whose work often focuses on systems, whether those be political, social, or personal, and what happens when they fail. In addition to writing plays, he writes short stories for literary magazines, edits his school’s student newspaper which he helped create, adapts and directs Shakespearean shows for local middle schools to perform, writes contemporary poetry that mocks contemporary poetry, competes in Speech and Debate under Humorous Interpretation, and is active in regional theatre as an actor and stage manager. He’s drawn to satire, surrealism, and anything that makes the audience laugh right before making them uncomfortable. After high school, Ian plans to pursue a career in political science and constitutional law, continuing to examine and question how policy, language, and power shape the way we live.
The Perfect Victim
by Payton Aurora Jones
Between the bullet and the obituary are a hundred split-second decisions. For honor-student Malik and his best friend, Jay, the aftermath of a gunshot reveals the fragility of flawed systems, the strength of connected community, and the injustice of stolen youth.
Payton Aurora Jones (she/her, Califorina) is a 19-year-old vocalist, actor, writer, and advocate who uses her voice, creativity, and vision to inspire communities, shift culture, and tell stories that drive healing, repair, and transformation. Her work lives at the intersection of performance and purpose, where narrative becomes strategy, and young people shape what’s possible. Raised in Southern California, Payton’s foundation was built through lived experience. She grew up watching her mother turn struggle into leadership, organizing from the ground up. That lens, rooted in resilience, equity, and imagination, shapes everything she creates. Whether commanding a stage in musical theater, performing original music, or helping lead national youth campaigns, Payton is committed to using art and advocacy to address the mental, emotional, and systemic wounds communities carry. Her work centers young people not just as participants, but as narrators of their own change. A 2025 winner of ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence, Payton dreams of writing, acting, and producing original films, creative productions, and vocal projects that prove that story is power. She isn’t here to fit into anyone’s box—she’s here to build new rooms entirely, where justice lives, culture shifts, and thriving is a way of life.
We Didn’t Have to Meet Here
by Pace Rundlett
Four strangers meet in an unfamiliar place with absolutely nothing in common…except for the fact that they’re dead. And before they can move on, they need to understand why. A moving portrait of the stories behind the statistics in an all-American epidemic.
Pace Rundlett (she/her, Mississippi) is a 16-year-old junior at Clinton High School. She is an actor, vocalist, artist, and emerging writer. Pace first fell in love with performing when she joined her junior high show choir, where she learned to sing and gained confidence on and off stage. That experience led her to audition for her high school’s competitive troupe, Arrow Players, where she’s competed for two years in productions like The Night Witches, CUT, Wiley and the Hairy Man, and Cheating Death. Outside of school, she performs in community theater, including Much Ado About Nothing, Little Shop of Horrors, and Beetlejuice Jr. Though she always loved stories, Pace didn’t believe she could write her own because of her dyslexia—until this year, when she wrote and staged an original scene for a state competition. While she didn’t advance far, the experience introduced her to ENOUGH! and sparked a new passion. Pace is an honor student active in swim, art, theater, and the a cappella group Arrow401. She enjoys drawing, painting, baking, and is working toward her Eagle Scout rank while serving her community through church, NHS, Crown Club, and Scouts.
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Under Wraps
by Olivia Stanley
In a young woman’s all-too-familiar story, a lyrical love ballad twists into a nightmare of violence, secrecy, and deception. A haunting, richly poetic reminder that the pain we hide unravels us all in the end.
Olivia Stanley (she/her, Texas) is a published playwright, writer, actor, and director from Dallas, Texas. She has written across a wide range of themes and genres, but loves to explore themes of identity, grief, self-exploration, feminism, and mental health in her work. In addition to playwriting, she has been nationally awarded for fiction and received a Silver Medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for Science Fiction (“Elizabeth Bourdain Was Playing Dead”). Olivia is passionate about combining activism with her art; in 2024, her short play was performed at the Momentous Institute Changing the Odds Mental Health Conference (“VOLUME”). Other writing credits include Bottle Episode (Linden Grove Theater Company, BTWHSPVA, Stage West), The Nihilist’s BLT (Junior Players, Kitchen Dog Theater, BTWHSPVA), Boy Club (Junior Players, Kitchen Dog Theater, Emory University), and Line of Fire, Open Flame (The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Academy, BTWHSPVA). She has been awarded as a finalist and semifinalist in the Eugene O’Neill Young Playwrights Festival and The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, and her plays have been produced in multiple states. A singer-songwriter, Olivia also performs original music in her East Dallas Community. Olivia graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in 2024. She is now majoring in Playwriting and Sociology at Emory University, where she serves as Outreach Coordinator for Dooley’s Players and promotes student theatre. She also works on the executive board of Lenaia Playwriting Festival, Emory’s annual festival of student-written, directed, and performed plays. Additionally, Olivia has performed with Theater Emory, Emory University’s producing affiliate company.
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