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Colleen Kennedy
Senior Communications Manager
Melanie Bender Martin
Director of Marketing and Communications
Recent press releases
Folger Shakespeare Library Announces 2025-26 O.B. Hardison Poetry Series
Press release: July 10, 2025
Folger Consort Announces 2025-26 Season of Early Music
Press release: June 12, 2025
Folger Shakespeare Library’s "DC, I Love You" Brings Real Love Stories to Life in the District Neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant and Capitol Hill
Folger Shakespeare Library today announced that tickets are now available for DC, I Love You, a community-driven, site-specific performance set against the backdrop of Washington, DC’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood and throughout the public spaces of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Folger Theatre Closes Its 2024-25 Season with a Sexy, Joyful Twelfth Night Directed by Mei Ann Teo
Press release: April 10, 2025
Folger Consort Concludes Whose Democracy? Season with a Series of Concerts Fit for a King … or a Rebellion
Press release: April 9, 2025