EVERYBODY

by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

directed by guest director Daniel Jáquez

PERFORMANCE DATES

March 3, 4, & 5 @ 7:30pm

VENUE

Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre

DESCRIPTION

The play The Somonyng of Everyman, written in the 15th century, is an allegorical morality play intended to guide humanity towards salvation. Our play, EVERYBODY by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, with wit, humor, and the realness of present-day society, allows us, when confronted by death, to ask fundamental questions regarding the behaviors and the priorities in our lives.

It is said that everybody dies, that what’s important is the journey. Nonetheless, what do we actually do when we are faced with death? Do we take inventory, do we look back, do we look forward? Who do we do the looking with? Will we be alone? What do we take with us?

Daniel Jáquez (he/him/his) who recently relocated from New York to San Diego, is originally from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México—traditional territory of the Manso, Apache, Jumanos, and Rarámuri people.

In San Diego Jáquez cofounded TuYo Theatre whose goal is to create and produce Latinx theater; The Old Globe invited him to be an inaugural Classical Directing Fellow and commissioned him to create plays with the City Heights community to celebrate Día de Muertos; He is a proud Artistic Trustee of Diversionary, the third oldest LGBTQIA+ theater in the country.

In NYC Jáquez served as a member of the Advisory Committee for The Lark's México/U.S. Playwright Exchange Program, a program he has continued as the San Diego/Tijuana Playwright Exchange. He has translated plays by award-winning Mexican playwrights and his translations have been published by NoPassport Press, The Mercurian, and Asymptote. He worked as Director and co-founder of Unit52, Intar’s acting company; Director of INTAR/Jerome Foundation NewWorks Lab festival producing four plays by emerging Latinx playwrights annually; Co-founder and Artistic Director of Calpulli Mexican Dance Company.

In Portland, Oregon, Jáquez spent a season serving as Interim Artistic Director of Milagro Theatre where he’d been an associate artists since 2001. He directed several productions in Spanish and English and was awarded a DRAMMY for outstanding direction of a play.

Jáquez earned an MFA in Directing from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute at Harvard University and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Texas. Visit danieljaquez.com to learn more.