BLACKSBURG — “Does someone have to die before the school does anything about this?” A Virginia Tech student who reported being harrassed for being gay posed that question to graduate student Megan Carney about a year ago. Carney, who serves on the diversity committee for the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, said she has been haunted by those words and wanted do something. So she wrote a play.

“A lot of times in our culture we wait for horrible things to happen before we really make change, so as a theater maker who likes to interview people and make new plays, I saw that question as a call to start talking to people about safety. And it’s been fascinating since that happened,” Carney said. “I’ve talked to a lot of different people and collected their stories and all of those stories and all of those conversations have filtered into this show.”

“[classified]: untold stories of Virginia Tech” premiered in the fall at Glade Church in Blacksburg. Its second public performance was Wednesday at Tech.