EVERYBODY BY BRANDON JACOBS-JENKINS
With New York University, Fall 2020
Directed by Candis Jones Production Design by Gaya Maria Chatterjee Associate Production Design by Sophie Blondel & Jadyn Buchanan Assistant Production Design by MJ Stone & Megan Mishkin Choreography by Mackian Bauman Dramaturgy by nicHi Douglas
Everybody was a digital production that was done completely remotely with actors participating from all over North America. The play is based on Everyman which was a mortality play written in the 15th century. The narrative centers around relationships and values like Friendship, Kinship, Stuff, Mind, Five Senses, and Understanding who are each played as if they were real people. In the play there is also a lottery aspect in which the actors were assigned a different role to play each night at random.