Director’s Note:
What is more universal than Death?

Regardless of any potential separation one person might have from another, both are still both going to die. I mean, eventually! And, difficult as it is to sit down and contemplate or even discuss it, it is a collective inevitability.

So enter stage left: Everybody: an extremely meta-theatrical morality play, adapted from a 15th Century play (itself having origins even further that!), complete with a lottery every performance so that actors and audience members alike are kept on their toes; both a metaphor for the randomness of Death, as well as the diversity of Life. At times seeming so simple, at others, incredibly challenging, this play has been a joy to see through from original pitch to opening night.

What once appeared as initial obstacles have been embraced as opportunities for this show: no lobby for the audience before the show / the actors cannot get from the dressing room to the stage without being seen? Great, the show is happening all around you, as soon as you walk in the door!

To mount such a challenging show, I am incredibly grateful to have such a kind and supportive team; each and every one has been the absolute best to work with during this process. From contributing ideas to the music played before and after the show, helping to record sound cues, contributing to the set, the costumes, and, of course, being there for each other on and off stage in this intensely vulnerable process; I appreciate them all.

Oscar Wilde in 1889 penned “Life imitates Art more than Art imitates Life,” and this has me questioning how Death fits into that equation, and how we’ll never know, until we know.

I hope you see a little piece of yourself in Everybody.