Everybody
2023 Production Ensemble.
![The poster for Everybody, featuring a gravestone that also looks a bit like a theater.](/sites/default/files/styles/standard_page_header/public/assets/images/department-theater/Everybody.poster.png.webp?itok=YdIllFuA)
Poster by Daniel Kontz.
Assistant Professor of Theater Isaiah M. Wooden directs this fascinating contemporary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who the New York Times calls “one of the country‘s most original and illuminating writers”. This modern spin on the fifteenth-century Morality play “Everyman”, follows one central character named “Everybody” as they prepare to follow Death into the unknown. Connecting our modern-day anxieties with the preoccupations of Medieval monks, this layered, tender, and unexpectedly hilarious play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2018.
Creative Team:
Director: Isaiah M. Wooden Assistant Director: Jing Jing Gopinath '26 Assistant Director / Dramaturg: Sophia Pereda-Echeverry '25 Set Design: Matt Saunders Costume Design: Laila Swanson Lighting Design: Jim Murphy Prop Design: Eva Nahass '24 Sound Design: Elizabeth Atkinson Choreographer: Ellen Gerdes Stage Manager: Brady Gonsalves Assistant Stage Managers: Kael Frankie '24, Jenna Martinez '27, Rebecca Mintah '24
Cast:
Usher / God / Understanding - Grace Fruaff '26 Death- Frank Paz '24 Somebody- Joanna Hong '27 Somebody- Kana Nagata '26 Somebody- TJ O'Leary '25 Somebody- Percy Pu '27 Somebody - Panhavoan Reth '25 Love - Clara Haru Mulligan '25 Evil - Jing Jing Gopinath '26 Time - Sophia Pereda Echeverry '25