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Everything That Never Happened

By Sarah Mantell
Directed by Johanna Gruenhut

Sarah Mantell

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Dates Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 1pm

Tickets Festival pass - $35; All-access pass - $75

Duration 90 minutes

Join us at The Reading Room Festival for this staged reading of Sarah Mantell’s new play Everything That Never Happened.

Jessica and Lorenzo are in love, but in order to be together they must plan an escape from her father’s house, the Venetian ghetto, and her entire culture. Taking place in the gaps between The Merchant of Venice and the realities of Jewish history, Everything That Never Happened is a play about a father, a daughter, disguise, assimilation, pomegranates, and everything Shakespeare left out.

Post-show conversation

After the staged reading, M. Lindsay Kaplan moderates a conversation with Sarah Mantell, Johanna Gruenhut, and Michele Osherow.

Students receive free admission with valid ID, 30 minutes before event start time. General admission seating is available for this staged reading on a first-come, first-serve basis after festival pass holders are seated.

Who’s who

Sarah Mantell

Playwright

Sarah Mantell

Johanna Gruenhut

Director

Johanna Gruenhut

Derek Kolluri

Shylock

Derek Kolluri

Cali Izzi

Gabbo

Cali Izzi

Miriam Schwartz

Jessica

Miriam Schwartz

Zack Powell

Lorenzo

Zack Powell

Craig Wallace

Stage Directions

Craig Wallace

Michele Osherow

Dramaturg

Michele Osherow

M. Lindsay Kaplan

Post-Show Moderator

M. Lindsay Kaplan

Jasmine Livingston

Production Assistant

Jasmine Livingston

Cameron Luther

Production Assistant

Cameron Luther

Rebecca Talisman

Stage Manager

Rebecca Talisman

Acknowledgements

Everything That Never Happened was developed at the Carlotta Festival of New Plays, with The Playwrights Realm as part of their year-long Writing Fellowship, and premiered at Boston Court Pasadena under the direction of Jessica Kubzansky and supported by a grant from the Edgerton Foundation.

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“I wanted to write a play that allowed these characters to speak in Jewish voices for the first time,” writes Mantell about Everything That Never Happened.