THE PLAY

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What do life and death have in common? 

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They’re both confusing, happen by chance, and everybody has to face them. And by everybody, we mean Everybody—our main character in this story. When Death calls, Everybody must scramble to scrap together an answer for what they did with their time. What is the meaning of life? What do we get to take with us in the end? Is it really the end, anyway? In this ever-changing production with a cast decided by lottery each night, life and death might find one more thing in common: both can be beautiful in mysterious ways.

Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize.

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“This is theatre rather unlike anything you might have seen…unusual, unconventional and eye-opening…Everyman is no barrel of laughs, being a morality play about death. Everybody tells the same tale, with equal emotional heft; but it is not only provocative and involving, it is also funny. Wildly funny, in fact.” —

Huffington Post

“…[a] very meta and saucy adaptation…”

Time Out NY

“[Everybody] fills the heart in a new and unexpected way.”

The New Yorker

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BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS, PLAYWRIGHT

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, an Obie award-winning playwright, presently teaches right down the road from Southwestern University at The University of Texas at Austin.

"His plays have been performed at such venues as Lincoln Center Theatre/LCT3, Soho Rep, the Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Center Theatre Group, Victory Gardens Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theater, The Matrix Theater, CompanyOne, Theater Bielefeld in Germany and the HighTide Festival in the UK. He is currently a Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and master-artist-in-residence in the Playwriting MFA program of Hunter College, City University of New York. Other honors include a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, the Paula Vogel Award, a Fulbright Arts Grant, a Helen Merrill Award, the Dorothy Strelsin playwriting fellowship, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. He is a Princeton alum from the Class of 2006, holds an M.F.A. in Performance Studies from NYU, and is a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard." (source)

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Plays by Jacobs-Jenkins include:

• Neighbors (Public Theater, 2010)

• War (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2014)

• Appropriate (Signature Theater, 2014 OBIE Award for Best New Play, Outer Critics Circle nominee)

• An Octoroon (Soho Rep, 2014, OBIE Award for Best New Play)

• Gloria (Vineyard Theater, 2015)

• Everybody (Signature Theater, 2017)

• Girls (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2019)