Stage Direction by Julie Rada

Written by Branden Jacob-Jenkins

The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, Colorado

September — October 2019

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Everybody is a modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman, and follows Everybody (who will be a cast member chosen by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living. Said the Huff Post of the piece in its New York City debut: “This is theatre rather unlike anything you might have seen…unusual, unconventional and eye-opening…Everyman, from which the piece is adapted, is no barrel of laughs, being a morality play about death. But Everybody tells the same tale, with equal emotional heft, and is not only provocative and involving, it is also funny. Wildly funny, in fact.”

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“The tech and direction for the production are precise and clever, the acting lively, and the production worth your time.” – Juliet Wittman, Westword

“Director Julie Rada makes sure there is always an actor running, speaking, or dancing within a few feet of every audience member. Though Everybodyis not what I would call an interactive show (the audience never leaves their wide circle of chairs surrounding the actors), the ensemble is certainly engaged with its audience, weaving through their seats, making loaded eye contact, and in a chilling scene called “La Danse Macabre,” silently asking each spectator to confront their own mortality.” – Erica Reid, Go West, Young Woman

“Everybody brought the sum total of my life's experience front and center for me, good, bad and otherwise. It is is comforting to see that theater can still do that for me. Thank you to The Catamounts for choosing challenging, creative scripts, skilled directors, willing actors and mostly for keeping the torch lit. The torch of theater... the community that sat around a campfire trying to make sense of who we are and what are doing here…” – Audience Member

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Winner of 2019 Marlowe Awards for Best Actress in a play (Karen Slack as “God", Edith Weiss as Death)