When 15-year old Hannah receives numerous threatening messages from an online peer, she finds herself becoming more and more powerless. Terrified, it seems to Hannah that she has no other way to end the fear and pain than to take her own life.

In this interactive theater production, students from Fern Creek High School will have the opportunity to stop the suicide and choose other options that will change the outcome for Hannah. Professional actors with the Louisville-based theater group “Looking for Lilith” will perform the short play, telling Hannah’s story. Just as Hannah makes that terrible decision to take her life, the play stops…

The actors then address the students in the audience, giving them the opportunity to actively “discuss” Hannah’s other options by intervening in moments in the play where Hannah could make different choices when dealing with her online bully. Students will be able to take Hannah’s place in the play and act out their ideas, practicing how they themselves would deal with the situation at hand.

The founder of Make a Difference for Kids, Mark Neblett, knows all too well the negative consequences of cyberbullying. His 17-year old daughter, Rachael Neblett, died by suicide in 2006 after she was stalked online by a peer from her school.