On Valentine's Day, 2018, a nineteen-year-old boy walked into his former high school in Florida
with an assault rifle. He killed fourteen students, three teachers, and injured seventeen more.
Some of the worst damage was done when he shot into a Holocaust history class as students were studying hate crimes.

Room 1214 is based on interviews with the real-life teacher of that class and who was in the room that fateful day. The play imagines what would happen if she had one more chance to teach in that classroom, and her students got a final say. It begs the question, “Can a history teacher rewrite history?”

Breaking “traditional” structure, the story combines docudrama with a meta-theatrical sensibility (think The Laramie Project meets Our Town) in order to experience a firsthand account of gun violence through the lens of survivors. Often, news coverage depicts students and parents grappling in the aftermath, but this play explores the heart and mind of a beloved teacher, giving voice to a community directly affected by America’s gun epidemic.
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