All the world's fit for a stage in Brian Glenn Bryson's eyes.

The Penngrove playwright and director has made a habit of turning life into theater, overseeing young actors as they interview real world subjects and use their verbatim words as dialogue.

In “The Bully Theatre/Film Project,” Bryson's troupe members told the stories of victims and their tormentors. In “The Habit Project,” they delved into routine and addiction.

And in “Prop 8 Love Stories,” Bryson's actors interviewed straight and gay couples about “love, life and discrimination,” a play Bryson launched in the wake of the ban of same-sex marriage in California.

This week, Bryson, 43, again reaches for the zeitgeist in “Civil Disobedience — the Musical,” a play largely based on interviews with Sonoma County Occupy protesters. It opens Friday in Sebastopol.

As with his other plays, “Civil Disobedience” began with Bryson's interest in touchy territory. Walking Elephant Theatre Co., as his outfit is called, is named after the proverbial pachyderm people prefer to ignore.

At the time he started the play, Bryson was perplexed by the lack of outcry about the many things he believed were going wrong in the country, from out-sized corporate bonuses to environmental destruction.

“I was pulling my hair,” he said “Why aren't people in the streets with all this craziness going on?”

He began “Civil Disobedience” to explore protesters and what turned them into such.

One challenge loomed however. In September, when he started casting, Bryson was unsure how he'd track down enough protesters to on whom to base his roles.

But within weeks, source material was the least of his concerns as the nationwide Occupy movement caught fire, overwhelming him with choices.