EVERYBODY BY BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS

2026

Dates:

• Friday, December 4, at 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, December 5, at 7:30 p.m.

• Sunday, December 6, at 2:00 p.m.

Location: Venable Theatre

MCLA Theatre invites you to Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, codirected by Professor of Theatre Laura Standley and senior MCLA Theatre major, Rory DiVenuto ’27.

This bold and funny reimagining of the medieval morality play Everyman, follows its title character on an unexpected journey toward life’s one unavoidable destination. Along the way, Everybody turns to Friendship, Kinship, Stuff, Love, and others for help answering a question that belongs to all of us: what really matters when our time runs out?

Presented as part of MCLA Theatre’s Theatre Lab, our workshop venue for student experimentation and artistic exploration, this production extends its collaborative spirit beyond performance. The company will work together to develop the production’s design elements, creating it’s theatrical world through a shared process of experimentation, discovery, and invention.

Playful, theatrical, and surprisingly moving, Everybody transforms a centuriesold story into a contemporary exploration of what it means to be alive—and invites MCLA student artists to discover together how that story can best be told.