Everyman Theatre's Resident Ghost Company

“In 2014 I saw a ghost backstage of a performance and soon discovered I wasn’t alone.”

Everyman Theatre's Resident Ghost Company is a paranormal, true-crime documentary podcast produced and hosted by Everyman Theatre Resident Acting Company member Danny Gavigan. With interviews from Everyman Theatre's company of artists, paranormal experts, and Baltimore historians, Danny pieces together corroborating firsthand accounts, expert analysis, and revelatory newspaper clippings to uncover the history behind the ghost he encountered backstage at the haunted Baltimore theater. Part documentary and part suspenseful radio drama, Everyman Theatre's Resident Ghost Company explores how the supernatural connects us all.

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Conversations concerning the paranormal typically lend themselves to the sensational, but Danny has discovered they can also open deeper discussions about trauma, the afterlife, and a region’s rich history.

Danny looks back on some of the other ghostly happenings at Everyman Theatre's historic space and explores the rich history of Baltimore’s Bromo Arts District, particularly Lexington market, to learn how the past still haunts the present with UMBC American Studies professor Dr. Nicole King.

Heard on this episode 

Yaegel Welch Resident Acting Co
Clinton Brandhagen Former Resident Acting Co Member
Helen Hedman Resident Acting Co
Deborah HazleI Resident Acting Co
Beth Hylton Resident Acting Co
Bruce Randolph Nelson Resident Acting Co
Andrew Gaylin Audio Engineer
Megan Anderson Resident Acting Co
Corey Frier-Ritsch Associate Director of Marketing and Strategic Communications
Shammah Moore Porter at Everyman Theatre
Mandy Hall Director of Production
Brenna Horner Former Lead Teaching Artist at Everyman Theatre
Jason McIntosh Actor (Radio Golf, Sweat, Fences)
Tony Nam Resident Acting Co
Vincent M. Lancisi Founder, Artistic Director
Donald Hicken Former Theater Head of Baltimore School for the Arts
Dr. Nicole King Associate Professor and American Studies Dept. Chair, UMBC
Paige Hernandez Associate Artistic Director

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Danny discovers that for many in the company their brush with the paranormal goes back to their childhood, and for some, the ghosts were not always welcome visitors. We hear from academic Dr. Hollis Robbins, medium Dr. Gwen F. MacGregor, paranormal investigator Elyse Caudill Corker, and host Marc Steiner from Everyman Theatre's “World of the Play” discussion around the production of Blithe Spirit back in 2015.

Heard on this episode 

Brenna Horner Former Lead Teaching Artist at Everyman
Dr. Hollis Robbins Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Chair of the Humanities Department at the Peabody Institute
Beth Hylton Resident Acting Co
BLITHE SPIRIT Trailer – Bruce Randolph Nelson, Beth Hylton, Nancy RobineIe, and Megan Anderson
Dr. Gwen F. MacGregor Intuitive Life Coach and Metaphysical Educator
Shammah Moore Porter at Everyman
Paige Hernandez Associate Artistic Director
Juan Juarez Lighting Supervisor
Mandy Hall Director of Production
Megan Anderson Resident Acting Co
Jason McIntosh Actor (Radio Golf, Sweat, Fences)
Andrew Gaylin Audio Engineer
Donald Hicken Former Theater Head of Baltimore School for the Arts
Elyse Caudill Corker Founding Member and Lead Investigator of the Greater Maryland Paranormal Society
Joan Gavigan Mom

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Everyman Theatre's porter, Shammah Moore, has had more than his fair share of ghostly experiences at the theater and attributes them to a shootout that occurred there back in 1953. Danny and Company unfold the events of that fateful day through anecdotes and revelatory newspaper clippings.

Heard on this episode 

Shammah Moore Porter at Everyman Theatre
Megan Anderson Resident Acting Co
Corey Frier-Ritsch Associate Director of Marketing and Strategic Communications
Brenna Horner Former Lead Teaching Arts at Everyman
Tony Nam Resident Acting Co
Donald Hicken Former Head of Theatre at Baltimore School for the Arts
Vincent M. Lancisi Founder, Artistic Director
Mandy Hall Director of Production
Andrew Gaylin Audio Engineer
Beth Hylton Resident Acting Co

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Beth tells a ghost story from her childhood that has Danny investigating the parallels between traumatic events and apparitions in hopes to explain who the mysterious figure was backstage. Bruce offers a practical explanation of what our minds do to fill in blanks, but Danny learns about an event at the theater that might offer more answers. 

Heard on this episode 

Beth Hylton Resident Acting Co
Donald Hicken Former Head of Theatre at Baltimore School for the Arts
Vincent M. Lancisi Founder, Artistic Director
Megan Anderson Resident Acting Co
Clinton Brandhagen Former Resident Acting Co Member
Mandy Hall Director of Production
Helen Hedman Resident Acting Co
Andrew Gaylin Audio Engineer
Bruce Randolph Nelson Resident Acting Co
Deborah Hazlett Resident Acting Co
Helen Hedman Resident Acting Co

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As theaters across the world go dark from the COVID-19 pandemic, Danny and the Everyman Theatre Co gather around the virtual ghost light to tell of their experiences in the haunted halls of the historic theater on West Fayette Street, only to realize that their stories intersect.

Heard on this episode 

Bruce Randolph Nelson Resident Acting Co
Vincent M. Lancisi Founder, Artistic Director
Helen Hedman Resident Acting Co
Beth Hylton Resident Acting Co
Deborah Hazlett Resident Acting Co
Paige Hernandez Associate Artistic Director
Mandy Hall Director of Production
Donald Hicken Former Head of Theatre at Baltimore School for the Arts
Andrew Gaylin Audio Engineer
Clinton Brandhagen Former Resident Acting Co Member
Daniel Ettinger Resident Scenic Designer

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