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Everybody

2023 Production Ensemble.

The poster for Everybody, featuring a gravestone that also looks a bit like a theater.

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


 

Grace Fruauff '26 as God

Grace Fruauff '26 as God

Photo by Jim Murphy
Grace Fruauff '26 as God

Grace Fruauff '26 as God

Photo by Jim Murphy
Frank Paz '26 as Death with the cast

Frank Paz '26 as Death with the cast

Photo by Jim Murphy
Frank Paz '26 as Death and TJ O'Leary '25 as Somebody

Frank Paz '26 as Death and TJ O'Leary '25 as Somebody

Photo by Cara Anderson
Panhavoan Reth '25 with the cast

Panhavoan Reth '25 with the cast 

Photo by Cara Anderson
Percy Pu '27

Percy Pu '27 as Cousin

Photo by Cara Anderson
Joanna Hong '27 as Kindred

Joanna Hong '27 as Kinship

Photo by Cara Anderson
Kana Nagata '26 as Stuff

Kana Nagata '26 as Stuff

Photo by Cara Anderson
Clara Haru Mulligan '25 as Love

Clara Haru Mulligan '25 as Love 

Photo by Cara Anderson
TJ O'Leary '25 as Somebody

TJ O'Leary '25 as Somebody

Photo by Jim Murphy
Danse Macabre

Danse Macabre

Photo by Cara Anderson
The cast in front of the collapsed back wall of the theater

The cast of "Everybody" 

Photo by Cara Anderson

Grace Fruauff '26 as God

Photo / Jim Murphy
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