2017

Playwright Wendy Kout was commissioned by CenterStage Theatre in Rochester, NY to write a Holocaust play, based on the lives of ten survivors who immigrated to Rochester. A month later, while watching Neo-Nazis march with tiki torches in Charlottesville, Wendy realized she wasn’t just writing a history play. She was writing a warning play.

2018-2019

Approximately 10,000 students experienced SURVIVORS throughout Rochester and surrounding areas at 25 public and private schools and at CenterStage Theatre.

2019

Playwright Wendy Kout was asked by Skylight Theatre Company in Los Angeles to pen a full-length adaptation of SURVIVORS weaving in contemporary conflicts. The resulting iteration of the project, NEVER IS NOW, played to a multi-generational, diverse audience of over 2000 during a limited run.

2022

After a Covid hiatus, SURVIVORS toured schools and stages in Philadelphia, PA,  and Victoria, B.C. Canada.

2023

Change – Arts For Change launched the West Coast schools and stages tour in March at Calabasas High School, then performed at Adat Ari El Temple in Valley Village and Camp Alonim in Simi Valley.  The public premiere will be  presented by and at Museum of Tolerance in LA on September 10th and another public performance follows at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on October 15th.

2024

SURVIVORS touring productions continue in Los Angeles, the West Coast, Rochester, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. Canada and a new touring production launch in the Twin Cities, MN.