Booking and details
Dates & TicketsDates Thu, May 9, 2024, 6:30pm
Venue Folger Theatre
Tickets $25 with discounts for Folger Members and Subscribers
Psalmayene24, director of Metamorphoses, sits down with Karen Ann Daniels, Artistic Director of Folger Theatre, to discuss this new staging of Mary Zimmerman’s critically acclaimed Ovid adaptation.
Learn more about how this production reimagines the play’s iconic staging, what it means to examine the classics through a contemporary lens, and the enduring appeal of myths.
Psalmayene 24
Psalmayene 24 (a.k.a. Gregory Morrison) is an award-winning playwright, director, and actor. Psalm—as his colleagues call him—is currently The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Mosaic Theater. Writing credits include his autobiographical solo play, Dear Mapel (Mosaic Theater), The Blackest Battle (Theater Alliance) and the short film, The Freewheelin’ Insurgents (Arena Stage).
Karen Ann Daniels
Karen Ann Daniels is the Director of Programming/Artistic Director of Folger Theatre. A native San Diegan, she is an accomplished actor, director, playwright, vocalist, musician, and community organizer. Prior to joining the Folger, she was director of the Mobile Unit at The Public Theater in NYC, producing tours around all five boroughs of NYC bringing the tools of theater to incarcerated community through Mobile Unit In Corrections (MUiC).