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Every Brilliant ThING
By Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Directed by Colm Summers
Geffen Playhouse
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
Los Angeles
September 6–October 29, 2023
Starring Daniel K. Isaac
THEATRELY’S BEST OF 2023
LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE
ABOUT
For my production of Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing at Geffen Playhouse, our design team transformed the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater into an intimate space in the round (the first time in its history), placing Daniel inside the audience rather than in front of it.
The room became a kind of enormous blanket fort: with over 150 blankets sourced lovingly from all over the United States, to create an enveloping landscape of crocheted blankets, warm light and color in which performer and audience remained visible to one another.
Every Brilliant Thing opened at Geffen Playhouse in September 2023 and was extended by popular demand through October 29.
The production was subsequently selected by Theatrely among its favorite regional productions of 2023.
Production Photography:
CREATIVE TEAM
CAST
Performer
Daniel K. Isaac
Understudy Performer
Leslie Stevens
COMMUNITY
Written by
Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Director
Colm Summers
Scenic Designer
Sibyl Wickersheimer
Costume Designer
Samantha C. Jones
Lighting Designer
Benedict Conran
Sound Designer
Stephanie Lynn Yackovetsky
Associate Director
Austin Tooley
Intimacy Director
Amanda Rose Villarreal
Dramaturg
Olivia O’Connor
Production Stage Manager
Colleen Danaher
Casting Director
Phyllis Schuringa, CSA
PRESS
THEATRELY’S BEST OF 2023
Los Angeles Times
‘Every Brilliant Thing’ at the Geffen Playhouse counts the joys that make life livable
“At once more abstract and more emotionally forthcoming.”
— Charles McNulty
Stage Raw
RECOMMENDED!
“A funny, affecting, one-of-a-kind experience.”
— Taylor Kass
Theatrely
EVERY BRILLIANT THING Is, Well, Brilliant
“Colm Summers’ direction is commendable.”
— Alan Koolik
Broadwayworld
Review: EVERY BRILLIANT THING at Geffen Playhouse
“A touch that is light but not frivolous.”
—Harker Jones
TheaterMania
Review: A Heart-Affirming Every Brilliant Thing With Daniel K. Isaac
“Subtle but heart-affirming.”
—Jonas Schwartz
LA Theatre Bites
7.5 / 10 — ABOVE AVERAGE
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