Booking and details
Dates Tue, Oct 1 – Sun, Nov 10, 2024
Tickets $20 – $84
Please note: Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.
Shakespeare’s timeless story of star-crossed lovers is also a story of the politics of warring families and the violence that consumes them. When all the systems meant to protect and guide a pair of young lovers—familial, religious, and governmental—fail them, can they find a way to safeguard their future despite the chaos around them?
CONTENT TRANSPARENCY
This production of Romeo and Juliet contains representations of substance abuse (drugs, alcohol, smoking), and stylized fighting using knives and prop firearms.
CAUTION
This production uses haze, strobe, and flashing lights that may not be suitable for all audiences. Please contact our visitor experience team for details.
Here’s what the critics are saying about Romeo and Juliet:
“A buzzy, smart interpretation of this oft-told tale and a seriously fun way into Shakespeare.” – Kate Wingfield, Metro Weekly
“Raymond O. Caldwell brings fresh energy to this production, reminding us that every generation must engage anew with these works.” – Julian Oquendo, DC Theater Arts
“Awfully pretty, consistently entertaining, and ultimately moving.” – D.R. Lewis, Washington City Paper
“A visually stunning and thought-provoking narrative.” – Teniola Ayoola, MD Theatre Guide
“DC has never seen Romeo and Juliet with the energy, tech-trendiness, and Latin flair that it has on stage now at the Folger Shakespeare Library.” – Kate Michael, K Street Magazine
“Folger first-timers Cole Taylor and Caro Reyes Rivera are youthful and energetic enough to make you buy their impulsive choices and root for them though we know they’re doomed.” – Chris Klimek, The Washington Post
“The classic story still resonates due largely to the strength of the cast.” – Peter Rouleau, Broadway World
“An electrifying modern rendition of Romeo and Juliet.” – Thompson Eskew, Alexandria Times
“Raymond O. Caldwell has found an astonishing way to bring Shakespeare’s storytelling into the present moment.” – Susan Berlin, Talkin’ Broadway
“A brilliantly fresh and innovative production.” – Jordan Wright, Zebra
“Taylor is delightful as Romeo, bringing laid-back charm, vulnerability and some swagger to his portrayal…Rivera shines as the outgoing, headstrong Juliet.” – Gail Choochan, Fredericksburg Freelance-Star
“If you have not seen the play onstage, take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity.” – Paul Webb, Theatre-Goers Thoughts
“Very exciting to see some of the ways that Caldwell is broadening the world of the play to include a wider audience.” – Emily Townsend, Two Hours Traffic
Cast
Gabriel Alejandro
Gabriel Alejandro (Paris) Folger Theatre: The Cuban Vote; Devil’s Isle Shakespeare Co.: As You Like It; Prologue Theatre: Marjorie Prime; Keegan Theater: The Wilting Point; Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy: Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Pericles, Twelfth Night; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: As You Like It, The Oresteia. International: Odin Teatret: Barter; Sine Qua Non Art: Kommos; CBA Santurce: Mujeres del Alba; CBA Humacao: Sueños de Colores. @galejandro
Brandon Carter
Brandon Carter (Friar Lawrence) Folger Theatre: debut. Regional: Virginia Repertory Theatre: Shakespeare in Love, The Christians; American Shakespeare Center: Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, The Henriad, Pass Over; Luna Stage: The Brothers Size. Off-Broadway: Classical Theatre of Harlem: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Three Musketeers; National Black Theatre: Blood at the Root; The Apollo Theatre: The First Noel. International Tour: Blood at the Root (Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation Prize). Brandoncarter.actor. @Mistercart3r
Giovanna Alcântara Drummond
Giovanna Alcântara Drummond (Mercutio) Folger Theatre: debut; Yale Repertory Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University includes: The Winter’s Tale, Fucking A, Marys Seacole, Bodas de Sangre. Film: Bea, Seriously. NYU: Theater and Journalism, BFA; Yale University: Acting, MFA. Recipient of the 2024 Carol Finch Dye Award in acting. @giodrumm
John Floyd
John Floyd (Benvolio) Folger Theatre: Our Verse in Time to Come, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Timon of Athens, Antony & Cleopatra, Davenant’s Macbeth; Mosaic Theatre Company: One in Two; Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Contemporary American Theatre Festival: What Will Happen to All That Beauty. Johnfloydactor.com. @john.floyd
Alina Collins Maldonado
Alina Collins Maldonado (Tybalt) Folger Theatre:King John; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Everybody, Much Ado About Nothing; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: BLKS; GALA Hispanic Theatre: Native Gardens (Helen Hayes nomination), El Paso Blue, Mariela en el desierto, Los empeños de una casa; Ford’s Theater: Something Moving; The Kennedy Center: Where Words Once Were, Digging Up Dessa; 1st Stage: Secret Things, The Good Counselor; Imagination Stage: Smartest Girl in The World, Robin Hood; Forum Theater: How We Got On, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Artistic Residencies: Eaton DC 2024, The Clarice Smith Artist in Residence 2021-2022, NextLOOK Artist 2020. Alinacollinsmaldonado.com
Tony Nam
Tony Nam (Lord Montague) Folger Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure; Arena Stage: Exclusion, Akeelah and the Bee; Everyman Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Bookclub Play, Dial M for Murder, Sense and Sensibility, Cry it Out, Murder on the Orient Express, Everything is Wonderful, Aubergine; Ford’s Theater: Our Town; Mosaic Theater: Sooner/Later, Theory; Olney Theatre Center: Our Town, Aubergine; The Kennedy Center: Where Words Once Were, A Cricket in Time Square, Unleashed; Round House Theatre: Treasure Island; Seattle Children’s Theatre: The Red Badge of Courage; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Othello, Pericles; TheatreWorks: Pacific Overtures; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, BA; University of Washington, MFA. Everyman Theatre Resident Company Member.
Luz Nicolas
Luz Nicolas (Nurse) Folger Theatre: debut. GALA Theater: The Palacios Sisters, Bathing in Moonlight, Native Gardens, The Troublemaker (Helen Hayes Award), The House of the Lagoon, Doña Rosita the Spinster, Aunt Julia and the Playwright, Cervantes, The Last Quixote (Helen Hayes nomination), Yerma (Helen Hayes nomination), Mariela in the Desert. Abyss, Miami and Madrid: Alice in Costa Rica, The Kennedy Center: “Iberian Mystics”; Single Carrot Theatre: The VIP; Theatre Project: The Final Draw; Repertorio Español: Exquisite Agony (HOLA/ACE Award); IATI Theater: An Invisible Piece of this World; Alcazar Theater, Madrid: The Merchant of Venice, The House of Bernarda Alba.
Caro Reyes Rivera
Caro Reyes Rivera (Juliet) Folger Theatre: debut. Elm Shakespeare Company: Richard III; Yale Repertory Theatre: Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles; David Geffen School of Drama at Yale: Hamlet, title role in Yale’s first ever bilingual Shakespeare production, Ruzante, Macbeth, Bodas de Sangre; Recipient of the Jerome L. Green Fellowship and the Schubert Scholarship. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, BA; Yale University, MFA. @caroreyesrivera
Todd Scofield
Todd Scofield (Lord Capulet) Folger Theatre: The Tempest, Hamlet, Cyrano, Othello, Henry VIII, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and others; Arena Stage: Holiday, City of Conversation, Sovereignty; Shakespeare Theatre Company: King Lear, Our Town, Richard III, and others; Round House Theatre: Ink, Oslo, The Book of Will, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and others; Signature Theatre: Ragtime; The Kennedy Center: Mister Roberts. Additional work includes productions at Theater J, Studio Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Adventure Theatre, Imagination Stage, and Everyman Theatre. Regional: Arden Theatre Company: Freud’s Last Session; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Charlotte Repertory Theatre; and North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. Television: recurring role in seasons 3 and 5 of The Wire.
Deidra LaWan Starnes
Deidra LaWan Starnes (Chorus/Prince) Folger Theatre: Amadeus, Julius Caesar, King Lear; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Amen Corner, Much Ado About Nothing (Free for All); 1st Stage: Postcards from Ihatov, Shutter Sisters, Mlima’s Tale, The Mamalogues, The Member of the Wedding; Studio Theatre: Radio Golf, Passing Strange, In the Red and Brown Water, The Old Setter, Seven Guitars; Olney Theatre Center: Stuff Happens, Doubt (Helen Hayes nomination), A Raisin in the Sun; African Continuum Theatre: Intimate Apparel (Helen Hayes Award), Gingham Dog, Spunk (Helen Hayes nomination). Regional: Huntington Theatre Company: The Invisible Man. Off-Broadway: for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. Film: Nocturnal Agony, Ladder 49.
Fran Tapia
Fran Tapia (Lady Capulet and vocalist) Folger Theatre: Performing Ave Maria, I Feel Love and Can’t Help Falling In Love. GALA Theater: On Your Feet! (Helen Hayes and BWW Awards), Revoltosa (Helen Hayes Award), Mummy in the Closet, Evita’s Return, In the Heights. Broadway National Tour: On Your Feet! International credits include productions in her home country of Chile: Cats, Tirana; Germany: Emergenz; Germany, France, Netherlands, Chile: Rite of Spring. @franciscatl
Cole Taylor
Cole Taylor (Romeo) Folger Theatre: debut. National Black Theatre: The First Deep Breath. Syracuse Stage: I & You; Indiana Repertory Theatre: Pipeline; Echo Theater Company: Handjob; Film and television: Amazon Prime: Strive; Peacock: Saved by the Bell. New York University, MFA.
Renee Elizabeth Wilson
Renee Elizabeth Wilson (Lady Montague/Others) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses, Nell Gwynn, Julius X; Mosaic Theater Company: Monumental Travesties (World Premiere), Native Son, Milk Like Sugar; Theater J: Intimate Apparel; Round House Theatre: Radio Golf, Nollywood Dreams; Constellation Theatre Company: Moon Man Walk; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Ain’t No Mo’; Imagination Stage: The Hula Hoopin Queen (World Premiere); Studio Theatre: Skeleton Crew, Doubt, White Noise; Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements (World Premiere), Seven Guitars. Regional: Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse: Miss Maybelline’s Nocturnal Flights of Fancy (World Premiere); International: Red Shoes (World Premiere). Film: Smoke Out, Veracity. @actpoetic88.
Understudies
Jon Beal
Jon Beal (understudy, Friar Lawrence, Lord Capulet, Lord Montague) Folger Theatre: debut; Shakespeare Theatre Company: As You Like It. Regional: Chicago Shakespeare Theater: As You Like It, SS! Macbeth; Northlight Theatre: Georgina and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, The Hypocrites, All Our Tragic, Dracula | Victory Gardens, An Issue of Blood; Lyric Opera of Chicago: Macbeth, Faust, Bel Canto, Otello, Siegfried, Die Walkure, Das Rheingold, The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, A Streetcar Named Desire, Hansel and Gretel; Haymarket Opera Company: Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra, Tamerlano; TimeLine Theater Company (Joseph Jefferson Award, Fight Choreography). TV: Chicago PD. Education: Columbia College Chicago, BA; Academy at Shakespeare Theatre Company, MFA. Jonbeal.com www.jonbeal.com
Aliyah Emorai
Aliyah Emorai (understudy, Juliet) Folger Theatre: debut; Olney Theater Center: New Voices, Reflections. Aliyahemorai.wixsite.com. @aemorai
Lauren Erica Jackson
Lauren Erica Jackson (understudy, Lady Montague and Prince/Chorus) Folger Theatre: debut. Shakespeare Theatre Company: Romeo & Juliet; Everyman Theatre: The Niceties; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: A Christmas Carol (2022 and 2023), BCAE Macbeth, Macbeth (matinee), Romeo & Juliet. Film: December 1964. Rehearsal: Squeegee Boy, Leave It At My Door. Best of Baltimore 2016 Best Actor Award.
Enzo Leone
Enzo Leone (understudy, Romeo) Folger Theatre: debut. University of Maryland Baltimore County: Small Mouth Sounds, The Grown-Up, shOUT. Film: One of Us, Project Waterboard. @leone_acting theatrewashington.org/job-profiles/enzo-leone.
Axandre Oge
Axandre Oge (understudy, Benvolio and Paris) Folger Theatre: debut; Nova Nightsky Theater: Constellations; Silver Spring Stage: Junk; Bethesda Little Theater: Trees, Trivia Tonight; Keegan Theatre: Fire; Convergence Theater: Snapshots; Brave Spirit’s Theatre: Edward III; The Wheel Theatre: The Winter’s Tale; Ally Theatre: Welcome To Sis’; Capital Fringe: Body; National Black Theatre Festival: Tendencies; Silver Spring One Acts: Gone Fishin’; Spotify: Silt Verses, RogueMaker, Secret of St. Kilda, SuperSuits.
Maria del Mar Rodriguez
Maria del Mar Rodriguez (understudy, Lady Capulet and Nurse) Folger Theatre: debut. Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy: Hedda Gabler, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Two Noble Kinsmen, The Epic of Gilgamesh.
O'Malley Steuerman
O’Malley Steuerman (understudy, Tybalt and Mercutio) Folger Theatre: debut. 1st Stage: Quilters (Helen Hayes nomination, Outstanding Ensemble); Baltimore Center Stage: Our Town, Tiny Beautiful Things, Life Is A Dream. omalleysteuerman.com @omalleysteuerman
Creative team
Raymond O. Caldwell
Raymond O. Caldwell (Director) Folger Theatre: Rap Monologues; Kennedy Center: Look Both Ways, All the Way Live; Theater Alliance: Poetry for the People (Helen Hayes Award), Day of Absence, Blood at the Root (Helen Hayes Award); 1st Stage: Fly me to the Sun; Signature Theatre: Passing Strange; Mosaic Theater: One in Two, Les Deux Noirs; Round House Theatre: Nollywood Dreams; Olney Theater Center: The Thanksgiving Play, The Diary of Anne Frank; Imagination Stage: Zomo the Rabbit ; SolasNua: The Frederick Douglass Project; theHegira: In the Blood. Regional: The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio: Skeleton Crew. Opera: Kennedy Center: The Cartography Project. Film: The Blackest Battle, City in Transition: The Quadrant Series, Sleep Deprivation Chamber, A Protest in 8. Artistic Leadership: Theater Alliance. 2023 SDCF Zelda Fichandler Award Recipient. www.raymondocaldwell.com
Tiffany Quinn
Tiffany Quinn (Choreographer) Folger Theatre: debut; Signature Theatre: Passing Strange (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography in a Musical); Creative Cauldron: Diagnosed; The Kennedy Center: Look Both Ways, Show Way: The Musical, Beastgirl, Earthrise; Theater Alliance: A Chorus Within Her, The Blackest Battle, Blood at the Root (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Choreography in a Play); Imagination Stage: Zomo the Rabbit: A Hip-Hop Creation Myth; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Winter’s Tale (Assistant to the Choreographer); National Players Tour: The Diary of Anne Frank; Mosaic Theater: Les Deux Noirs; Solas Nua: The Frederick Douglass Project; The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Dancing Spirit (Assistant to the Choreographer); PHILADANCO! For Truth (Assistant to the Choreographer); Howard University: The Trojan Women, The Children’s Hour, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Montgomery Community College: In the Heights; University of Maryland, Baltimore County: The Mail Order Bride. Performance credits: Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company, B.Moore Dance, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Francine E. Ott/The Walk. Howard University: Dance Arts, BFA.
Jonathan Dahm Robertson
Jonathan Dahm Robertson (Scenic Designer) Folger Theatre: debut. The Kennedy Center: Look Both Ways; Signature Theatre: Passing Strange; Round House Theatre: Nollywood Dreams; Theater J: Two Jews Walk into a War, The Christians; Mosaic Theater: The Agitators, Oh God!; 1st Stage: The Mamalogues, Member of the Wedding, The Nance; Theater Alliance: Day of Absence, Blood at the Root; American Stage: Indecent; The Barnstormers: Into the Woods; Cape Fear Regional Theater: Wait Until Dark; OPERA: The Princeton Festival: Nixon in China, Fidelio, Peter Grimes; Opera in the Heights: Candide, Un Ballo En Maschera, Cosi Fan Tutte. Jdahmrobertson.com. @jdahmrobertson
Jeannette Christensen
Jeannette Christensen (Costume Designer) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses (Associate Costume Designer), Our Verse in Time to Come, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Associate Costume Designer), Amadeus (Associate Costume Designer). GALA Hispanic Theatre: On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan (World Premiere in Spanish; Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Costume Design); The Kennedy Center/ Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Show Way. Work at other theaters includes Olney Theatre Center; Round House Theatre; Wolf Trap Opera; Studio Theatre. Work at regional theaters includes American Players Theatre; Oklahoma City Repertory Theater; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; American Stage; The Muny. National tour: Show Way, On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Arizona State University, Design & Production, BA; University of Maryland, Design, MFA; Maryland Institute College of Art, Business of Art & Design, MPS (Graduating Sept. 2024). Jchristensendesign.com
Alberto Segarra
Alberto Segarra (Lighting Designer). Folger Theatre: debut. Theatre J: The Hatmaker’s Wife, Two Jews Walk into a War; 1st Stage: The Nance; Solas Nua: The Honey Trap (Helen Hayes Award); Olney Theatre Center: Lend Me a Soprano, The Joy That Carries You (Helen Hayes nomination); Signature Theatre: Passing Strange; Theater Alliance: Blood at the Root (Helen Hayes Award); The Kennedy Center: Look Both Ways (Helen Hayes nomination); Keegan: Sweat; Imagination Stage: A Year of Frog and Toad. Recent regional credits: Village Theatre: Camelot: The Musical; Alley Theatre: Jane Eyre; Cleveland Play House: Three Musketeers; Hangar Theatre Company/Portland Stage: The Great Leap; Alliance Theatre: Business Ideas; Cleveland Play House: What the Constitution Means to Me; Constellation Theatre Company: Constellation. University of Maryland, MFA. albertosegarra.com.
Matthew M. Nielson
Matthew M. Nielson (Sound Designer and Composer) Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet; Arena Stage: Nina Simone: Four Women; Ford’s Theatre: The Carpetbagger’s Children; Round House Theatre: Oslo, Book of Will; Theater Alliance: Mnemonic (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Sound Design); Olney Theatre Center: Mary Stuart, The Magic Play; Regional: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Last Wide Open, Treasure Island, Misery; Portland Center Stage: Astoria, Parts 1 & 2, The Color Purple; Denver Center for the Performing Arts: Anna Karenina; Actor’s Theatre of Louisville: Dracula; Milwaukee Repertory Theater: Two Trains Running, Peter and the Starcatcher; Baltimore Center Stage: Shakespeare In Love; Off-Broadway: 59E59 Theatres: Occupied Territories; Lincoln Center Theater: Where Words Once Were; Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival: Shakespeare’s Villains; Film: From Hell To Here, Elbow Grease, Blue, The Long Road, Little Lamb; TV: The Hero Effect, EPIX Drive-In, Facebook, Delivery.com, NFL, UFC on FOX. Nielson has won five Helen Hayes Awards and has been nominated for several others, including the League of CincinnatiTheatres, Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, and BroadwayWorld nominations. CuriousMusic.com
Kelly Colburn
Kelly Colburn (Projection and Multimedia Designer) Folger Theatre: debut; 1st Stage: Postcards from Ihatov; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: My Mama and The Full Scale Invasion; Signature Theatre: Passing Strange; Kennedy Center: Look Both Ways; Roundhouse and Olney Theatre Center: Fela!. New York Theatre Workshop: american (tele)visions. 2020 and 2023 Helen Hayes Recipient, 2022 – 23 Helen Hayes Award Nominee, ‘23 Lucille Lortel Awards and Henry Hewes Nominee, 2018 Jim Henson Puppetry Grant, ‘17 NextLOOK Resident. Flying V: Executive Director. New York University, BFA; University of Maryland, MFA. Kellycolburn.com
Amy Kellett
Amy Kellett (Props Designer) Folger Theatre: debut; Studio Theatre: Love, Love, Love, The Colored Museum, Fun Home, The Hot Wing King; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Incendiary; Rep Stage: Falsettos, Things That Are Round; Theater Alliance: The Trans-Atlantic Time Traveling Company, This Girl Laughs.., Do You Feel Anger?, The Blackest Battle, Day of Absence; Theater Alliance and the Kennedy Center TYA co-production: Look Both Ways; American Stage: The Figs; 1st Stage: Postcards from Ihatov, The Mamalogues; Constellation Theatre Company: Desperate Measures, Moon Man Walk, Orlando, Once On This Island; Faction of Fools: The Moors; NextStop Theatre Company: An Act of God; ArtsCentric: Dreamgirls, Rent; Pointless Theatre Company; Visions of Love, Rite of Spring, Don Cristobal, King Ubu; Gala Hispanic Theatre: Príncipe y Príncipe, Que Las Hay, Las Hay; The Hub Theatre: American Spies…,The Burn, The Late Wedding, Peekaboo!; Howard Community College: Percy Jackson, Heathers, She Kills Monsters; Synetic Theater: The Three Musketeers, A Tale of Two Cities; Baltimore Center Stage: Young Playwrights Festival 2022 (set and props).
Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Caleen Sinnette Jennings (Adaptor) Folger Theatre: Rap Monologues. Playwright: Queens Girl Trilogy: Queens Girl in the World, Queens Girl in Africa, Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains; Round House Theatre: Homebound. Arena Stage: May 22, 2020; The 51st State. The Kennedy Center: commission, Darius & Twig. Dramatic Publishing Service has published eight of her plays, and her work has appeared in seven play anthologies. She has received playwriting awards from the Kennedy Center and Actors Theatre of Louisville. She is currently writing the book for a new musical on the life of famous black contralto Marian Anderson. American University: Professor Emerita, Theatre. The Welders: Founder.
Carla Della Gatta
Carla Della Gatta (Dramaturg) Folger Theatre: debut. Academic appointment: Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland. Publications: Latinx Shakespeares: Staging US Intracultural Theater; co-editor of Shakespeare and Latinidad; online theatre archive, LatinxShakespeares.Org. Service: Steering Committee for the Latinx Theatre Commons, board member for Shakespeare Survey and the Arden series, Shakespeare and Social Justice. Two-time Folger fellowship recipient. Carladellagatta.com.
Rosa Garay López
Rosa Garay López (Translator and Interpreter) Folger Theatre: debut. Published translations: La lucha por la existencia en la sociedad humana, Thomas Henry Huxley; El Mercado de los duendes de Cristina Rosetti y la pintura prerrafaelita: Correspondencias formales y revisión de la feminidad. Madeleine A. Vala; La ciudad realizable de Platón: El uso racional de las creencias y de la imaginación en la política. HYPNOS, São Paolo, No. 28.1 (2012). Certified Medical Interpreter. University of Puerto Rico, MA. Thesis project for MA in translation, Sala de espera, The Waiting Room by Lisa Loomer.
Robb Hunter
Robb Hunter (Fight Choreographer) Folger Theatre: debut. Shakespeare Theatre Company: King Lear (Helen Hayes Nomination), Richard III (Helen Hayes Nomination), Othello, The Oresteia, Salomé; Arena Stage: Catch Me If You Can, Ruined, Noises Off; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Teenage Dick, Gloria, HIR (Helen Hayes Award), An Octoroon (Helen Hayes Nomination); Studio Theatre: Vietgone, Red Speedo (Helen Hayes Nomination), Walworth Farce (Helen Hayes Nomination); Olney Theatre Center: Lend Me a Soprano, Beauty and the Beast, Singin’ in the Rain; Signature Theatre: Masterpieces, 4380 Nights, Passion; Ford’s Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, 110 in the Shade; Regional: The Cape Playhouse: Camelot, Baskerville; Huntington Theatre: Teenage Dick, Invisible Man; Television: Spin City (stunt double, Michael J. Fox). AEA and SDC member. RobbHunter.org. @DCFightDirector
Kaja Dunn
Kaja Dunn (Resident Intimacy Director) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses, The Winter’s Tale, Our Verse In Time To Come (The Reading Room Festival); Arena Stage: American Prophet; Denver Center for the Arts: Choir Boy, 5thAve; ACT Theatre (Seattle): Choir Boy; St. Louis Rep.: Private Lives, Confederates; Two River Theatre: Wine In The Wilderness; Penumbra Theatre: Sugar In Our Wounds; Broadway: A Strange Loop (Assoc. Intimacy Director); Television: The Best Man, Final Chapters, Harlem, The Equalizer; Awards: Kennedy Center American Theatre Award, Playwrights Project Excellence in Arts Education; Publications: Arden Contemporary Shakespeare, Intimacy Direction For Theatre, Theatre Symposium, HowlRound. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (UK). Carnegie Mellon University: Associate Professor.
Kate Murray
Kate Murray, CSA (New York Casting Director): Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale. Kate is a casting director for the Public Theater in New York where she casts Shakespeare, new plays, and musicals. Broadway: Hell’s Kitchen, Suffs, Fat Ham, Ain’t No Mo’, for colored girls…, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Delicate Balance, A Raisin in the Sun.
Tori Schuchmann
Tori Schuchmann (Production Stage Manager) Folger Theatre: Rap Monologues (The Reading Room Festival 2024); Constellation Theatre Company: Orlando, The School for Lies, Once on This Island; Imagination Stage: Inside Out and Backwards; Theater J: Tiny Lights; IN Series Opera: The Return of Ulysses; University of Maryland: Dance²; Arts on the Horizon: The Laundromat Show. Production Manager of Andy’s Summer Playhouse in New Hampshire and the Senior Project Manager for ViDCo (Virtual Design Collective).
Ebony Gennes
Ebony Gennes (Assistant Stage Manager) Folger Theatre: debut; Theater J: The Chameleon; Olney Theatre Center: Lend Me a Soprano; Cumberland Theatre: The Outsiders, Company, Rock of Ages, True West, Clue. Academic: It’s a Wonderful Life, Ricochet Dance Concert. Education: Frostburg State University, BS. Instagram: @EbonyGennes
Savina Barini
Savina Barini (Assistant Director) Folger Theatre: debut. Theater Alliance: Look Both Ways, A Protest in 8 (Featured Playwright); The Kennedy Center: Look Both Ways; ArtsCentric: for colored girls…; Rorschach Theatre: ¡nails!: A Happy Gay Latinx Play; Monumental Theatre Co.: Head Over Heels; Adventure Theatre: ¡Luchadora!, Everyone Poops; Regional: Moxie Arts NY: one drop cool; Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival: Rapture Blister Burn; The Spot: Cabaret, Pippin, The Revolutionists, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Pass Over (Co-Director). Savinabarini.com. @savinabarini
Elizabeth Morton
Elizabeth Morton (Assistant Costume Designer). Folger Theatre: debut. Keegan Theatre: Shakespeare in Love (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Merrily We Roll Along; Monumental Theatre Company: American Psycho; Taffety Punk Theatre Company: Macbeth, This Inherent Echo, Our Black Death (associate), and Othello; Olney Theatre Center: A Comedy of Tenors (assistant). Stitching and wardrobe work: Shakespeare Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, Arena Stage, GALA Hispanic Theatre, and Flying V Theatre.
Mark Costello
Mark Costello (Assistant Projection Designer) Folger Theatre: debut. Nationally produced video designer across various performance disciplines. Founding member of Merkins, Daniello & Sons, a company dedicated to creating innovative and athletic theatrical performance. Founding member of Alaska House, a multimedia design collective. New York University, BFA; University of Maryland, MFA.
Dominic DeSalvio
Dominic DeSalvio (Assistant Lighting Designer) Folger Theatre: debut. Keegan Theatre: Merrily We Roll Along; Synetic Theatre: Golden Fish; NextStop Theatre Company: Little Women; Solas Nua: The Playboy of the Western World; Maples Repertory Theatre: The Great American Trailer Park Musical, The Nerd, Hank Williams: The Lost Highway.
Julen Barini-Brown
Julen Barini-Brown (Assistant to the Director) Folger Theatre: debut. Regional: The Spot: Cats; Timberlake Playhouse: Jekyll and Hyde. Pace University: Pumpernickle, Macbeth, Antigone, Urinetown. Off-Broadway: The Tank: For Those Who Need It. www.jbarinibrown.com
Jessica Hagy
Jessica Hagy (Production Assistant) Folger Theatre: Where We Belong; Ford’s Theatre: Twelve Angry Men, The Trip to Bountiful, First Look (2 seasons); Imagination Stage: P. Nokio; Kennedy Center TYA: Dragon King’s Daughter; Round House Theatre: School Girls, Curious Incident…, Spring Awakening; Shakespeare Theatre Company: King Lear; Signature Theatre: RENT, Which Way to the Stage, Selling Kabul, No Place to Go, Disco Fever, How Sweet It Is: The Men of Soul, Both Sides Now, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea, Soft Power. TV: A Capitol Fourth; National Memorial Day Concert. Education: BA in Theatre and Arts Administration, University of Mary Washington.
Madalyn Oliver
Madalyn Oliver (Production Assistant) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses; Education: Messiah University, BA. Instagram: @Maddy.Olivr
Accessibility
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Relaxed performances
- Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 7:30pm
- Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 2:00pm
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Mask-required performance
- Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 7:30pm
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Audio-described performance
- Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 2:00pm
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Open-captioned performances
- Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm
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Special performances
Global Majority Affinity Night
- Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 6:00pm (7:30pm performance)
Folger Theatre is hosting a Romeo and Juliet Global Majority Affinity Night, on Thursday, October 10 at 6:00pm, inviting Black, Asian, Latine, MENA, and Indigenous-identifying audiences to attend a pre-show conversation followed by a 7:30pm performance, as the Folger joins a growing movement among theaters holding spaces for audiences from diverse cultural backgrounds and affinities.
Use code GLOBALAFFINITY to book a ticket to this special evening.
Please note: Doors for the pre-show event are at 6:00pm. The performance of Romeo and Juliet begins at 7:30.
Post-show discussion
- Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 7:30pm
Join us after the performance for a free conversation with the cast, moderated by the production dramaturg.
LGBTQ+ Affinity Night
- Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 6:00pm (7:30pm performance)
Folger Theatre is hosting a Romeo and Juliet LGBTQ+ Affinity Night, on Wednesday, October 30 at 6:00pm, inviting members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community to come together for an evening of inclusivity, camaraderie, and theatre.
Use code LGBTQ+AFFINITY to book a ticket to this special evening.
Please note: Doors for the pre-show event are at 6:00pm. The performance of Romeo and Juliet begins at 7:30.
Folger Theatre Sponsors
With special thanks to
The Share Fund
Premier Season Sponsor
Dr. Bill and Evelyn Braithwaite
Season Sponsor
Helen and David Kenney & Family
Andrea “Andi” Kasarsky
Production Sponsor
Nancy and Steve Howard (Romeo and Juliet)
Contributing Sponsor
Celia and Keith Arnaud
Gail Kern Paster
Associate Sponsor
Timothy J. Carlton (Romeo and Juliet)
Wes and Sly Hallman
Peter and Mary Pennington
Rick Kasten (Romeo and Juliet)
Artist Sponsor
Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel
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