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Families Learning Together Event Jan. 21 a Table Reading of Hold These Truths

Families Learning Together Event Jan. 21 a Table Reading of Hold These Truths

FLT/Fan Topic:

"Hold These Truths": A Table Reading

Presenters:

Joel de la Fuente and Jeanne Sakata

Interviewer: N/A

Date: January 21, 2026 at 12 p.m.

Location: North Shore Country Day School - 310 Green Bay Road, Winnetka, IL 60093 (NSCD Auditorium)

About the Presenters: 

De La Fuente, an Evanston native and North Shore Country Day ’87 alum, is a film, television, and stage actor known for roles in The Man in the High Castle, Hemlock Grove, Space: Above and Beyond, and recurring appearances on Law & Order: SVU.

Sakata is an American film, television, and stage actress and playwright, best known for her Broadway play Hold These Truths, which chronicles Gordon Hirabayashi’s legal challenge to the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans. North Shore Country Day will host De La Fuente and partner with FAN for a public evening program featuring a 45-minute table reading followed by a Q&A with De La Fuente, Sakata, and Lisa Doi ’09 of the Japanese American National Museum.