Inspired by the 15th century morality play Everyman, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new work follows Everybody (played by one of five actors selected by lottery at the beginning of each performance) as he or she travels down a road toward life's greatest mystery and confronts the inevitable. An unpredictable and inventive inquiry into the ways we cope with our own mortality.
Details
Price: $16.95
Pages: 96
Carton Quantity: 110
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Imprint: Theatre Communications Group
Publication Date: 24th June 2025
Trim Size: 5.38 x 8.5 in
ISBN: 9781559369701
Format: Paperback
BISACs: DRAMA / American / General DRAMA / American / African American
Reviews
Throughout his meteoric career, Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins has made a virtue of his anxieties about identity—social, racial, creative—in meta-theatrical plays that turn traditional forms inside out. —New York Times
With Everybody, Jacobs-Jenkins has written a play about love—or, rather, a play that shows how impossible it is to write about love—and it fills the heart in a new and unexpected way. —New Yorker
Provocative and involving...Wildly funny. —Huffington Post
The play is trenchant, certainly, and often quite moving...Jacobs-Jenkins is a destabilizer, never more so than in Everybody. –Vulture
- New York Times
Author Bio
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ plays include An Octoroon, Neighbors, Appropriate, and War. Gloria was named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He is a playwright-in-residence at Signature Theatre. He received the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for both An Octoroon and Appropriate, the 2015 Steinberg Playwrights Award, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2016.
Inspired by the 15th century morality play Everyman, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new work follows Everybody (played by one of five actors selected by lottery at the beginning of each performance) as he or she travels down a road toward life's greatest mystery and confronts the inevitable. An unpredictable and inventive inquiry into the ways we cope with our own mortality.
Price: $16.95
Pages: 96
Carton Quantity: 110
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Imprint: Theatre Communications Group
Publication Date: 24th June 2025
Trim Size: 5.38 x 8.5 in
ISBN: 9781559369701
Format: Paperback
BISACs: DRAMA / American / General DRAMA / American / African American
Throughout his meteoric career, Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins has made a virtue of his anxieties about identity—social, racial, creative—in meta-theatrical plays that turn traditional forms inside out. —New York Times
With Everybody, Jacobs-Jenkins has written a play about love—or, rather, a play that shows how impossible it is to write about love—and it fills the heart in a new and unexpected way. —New Yorker
Provocative and involving...Wildly funny. —Huffington Post
The play is trenchant, certainly, and often quite moving...Jacobs-Jenkins is a destabilizer, never more so than in Everybody. –Vulture
– New York Times
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ plays include An Octoroon, Neighbors, Appropriate, and War. Gloria was named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He is a playwright-in-residence at Signature Theatre. He received the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for both An Octoroon and Appropriate, the 2015 Steinberg Playwrights Award, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2016.
