The Department of Performing Arts and Humanities
of the School of Liberal Arts at CCBC
presents
EVERYMAN
ADAPTED BY CAROL ANN DUFFY
Director
Jason Chimonides
Movement Director
Nellie K. Glover
Set & Lighting Designer
Terri Raulie
Costume Designer
James J. Fasching
Technical Director
Jason Randolph
Stage Manager
Miles Lawlor
November 30 at 11:10 am
December 1, 2 at 7 pm
December 3 at 3 pm
December 4 at 10 am
Licensed by arrangement with The Agency, 24 Pottery Lane,
Holland Park, London W11 4LZ info@theagency.co.uk
MIA AWAD (Fellowship/ Insecurity/ Mother/ Goods/ Weather Reporter) makes her onstage debut at CCBC. She has previously been a part of production at Perry Hall High School, both on- and offstage. She was lighting board operator for Waiting for Godot here at Essex.
TIRRELL BETHEL (Everyman) returns to CCBC after last season’s production of Romeo & Juliet playing the role of Mercutio. He can’t remember how many years he’s been here at CCBC. He is currently a double major in both Theatre and Digital Media. Playing in Everyman, Tirrell is ecstatic about being…well Everyman. He plans on transferring to Towson or UMBC and has high hopes of being in movies (we can pray on that) or just anything theatre based. Tirrell would like to give a special thanks to his family who all have supported him and his girlfriend, as well as to the cast and crew, and anyone else who helped, for being awesome and hardworking individuals. “I’m honestly super grateful to work with such a talented, beautiful people inside and out.”
JILLIAN BREWER (Fellowship/ Sensuality/Beauty/ Goods/ Weather Reporter) 20 years young, is an actress and model. This is her last semester at CCBC and hopes of continuing her acting journey at Morgan State, where she is also a member of The ABC Modeling Team Organization. Her goal is to earn her Associates Degree in Theatre from CCBC then move on to Morgan State to receive her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts, and then complete a year conservatory program at the New York Film Academy base in Los Angeles for film acting.
EMILY BUTTERFIELD 
JIM DRIVER (Fellowship/ Smell/ Father/ Weather Reporter) is in his third semester here at CCBC Essex, taking classes such as Acting Basics, Acting I, Acting II, and Voice & Diction. Previous acting credits include Jeffrey Bank in Love’s Fire and Robert in Proof. Jim owes all his success to his two mentors, Jason Chimonides and Zach Hartley.
LACRAVE GRIFFIN (Fellowship/ Sound/ Knowledge/ Weather Reporter) is currently studying as a theatre major at CCBC Essex. He hopes to transfer to Towson University to study teaching and become a theatre teacher in the future.
AMANDA HALCOTT (Fellowship/ Strength/ Goods/ Weather Reporter) is making her debut on the CCBC stage. She is a first-year theatre major and a recent graduate of Patapsco High School & Center for the Arts where she won a Baltimore Theatre Award for her role as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She would like to thank Miles for being such a responsible stage manager, and Jason & Nellie for inspiring her, teaching her, and making her laugh. You can find her on Instagram @the_salamanda or Snapchat: thesalamanda.
CIAHNA HECK (Fellowship/ Vanity/ Goods/ Weather Reporter) is excited to be making her sixth appearance on the CCBC stage. A third-year acting and vocal major, Ciahna’s previous acting credits include The Menaechmi Twins (Ancilla/Medicus), The Vagina Monologues (The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could), Macbeth (Second Witch/Lady Macduff), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Jaquenetta), and Love’s Fire (Dymphna/Rengin/Muse 1) while at CCBC. She also recently debuted at Artistic Synergy of Baltimore with Clue: The Musical (Mrs. White). She plans on transferring to either Lesley University or Towson University next fall. Ciahna would like to thank Jason, Nellie, Miles, and the entire cast and crew for their dedication and support, Christian for loving her unconditionally, and her family for their love and support throughout this process. Enjoy the show!
ERIN JOHNSON (Fellowship/ Sight/ Sister/ Goods/ Weather Reporter) has been attending CCBC for 4 years now. She is currently majoring in Theatre. This is her first production at CCBC. She would like to say thank you to her family for supporting her throughout her CCBC journey.
BRIONNA JONES (Fellowship/ Passion/ Goods/ Weather Reporter) is a nursing major at CCBC. Previous acting credits include performing in The Crucible, Distracted, Pride and Prejudice, and Facing Our Truths. Brionna would like to thank her family and friends for supporting her to pursue her passion, while still focusing on her future career of nursing.
LASHAY MCMILLAN (God/Good Deeds) is performing in her fifth production here at CCBC. Her previous credits include performing in The Laramie Project, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet. Lashay had the special opportunity of being a part of Hamlet: Lost/Found, a devised version of Hamlet, at the 2017 KCAC Theatre Festival. Lashay hopes to transfer to Towson University, after graduating from CCBC, next fall.
JALON PAYTON (Fellowship/ Conscience/ Everyboy/ Weather Reporter) is a third-year theatre student at CCBC appearing in his fourth show at CCBC Essex after performing in last fall’s Macbeth. He has also performed in The Elephant Man and The Menaechmi Twins during the 2015-2016 academic year. This is his fifth semester as a theatre major. He has also performed in Anything Goes, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Addams Family and more with Blackfriars Theatre at Archbishop Curley High School.
Working on Carol Ann Duffy’s 2015 adaptation of the original The Summoning of Everyman, a Medieval morality play anonymously written in the mid to late fifteenth century, gives one a sense of perspective on the nature of human agency and responsibility. While we contemporary creatures in our technological towers tend to think that so very much has changed when we look back upon the stylized woodcuts of Everyman and Death, what Duffy’s Everyman makes clear is that in terms of how we view our responsibilities to others versus our responsibilities to our own precious selves, not very much has shifted. As a quick comparative study between the texts shows, the capacity to keep one’s head down and look away is timeless (Duffy 44). This very day in Baltimore, in Maryland, in our nation, and in our world we do look — quite willingly — away, and we still grapple with the same questions about the scale and value of our lives. Do we spend our precious little time on this earth in the service of self or in the service of others? Should we dedicate our moments here to the pleasures of the body, the pursuits of the soul, the constructions of the intellect? What will the price be for our choices, and will it be meted out on us alone or does our inaction impact the world around us? The fifteenth century text asks questions structured around an expanding propertied class that could afford more pleasure and — quite literally — pay more indulgences. The concerns about property buying material, social, and spiritual protections that started as muffled whispers through the scenes of our fifteenth century text — the relationship of property to morality, the trade of economic power for spiritual forgiveness, the responsibility of the haves to have nots — screech and howl through Duffy’s contemporary work. Everyman back then, as well as our Everyman now, are both caught between a lived world that values and rewards the accumulation of goods and the exercise of power that those goods grant and a spiritual world that decries those very values out one side of the mouth, while accepting the indulgences they grant with open arms. In addition, both figures inhabit a world in which disparity between those who hold wealth and those who don’t is as clear as the property accruing in their accounts. When faced with the small and large tragedies of the world, like so many of us have done from the fifteenth century forward, Everyman concludes, quite logically, that his small deeds don’t add up to squat. In the ever human refrain he cries out, “What could I do? Me?” (Duffy 63). It is not until he faces his end, that he understands what the body, the mind, and the soul he has been gifted are capable of, and while it may be too late, he learns that no good deed is too little.
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow. She grew up in Stafford and then attended the University of Liverpool, where she studied Philosophy. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, as well as the Lannan Award and the E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2009, Carol Ann Duffy became Poet Laureate. In 2012 she was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize.