As You Like It

Tsilala Brock (Rosalind) Folger Theatre: debut. Regional: Barrington Stage: Blues for an Alabama Sky; Cincinnati Playhouse: Satchel Paige & The Kansas City Swing; The Cape Playhouse: Rent; Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse: Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet; Singapore International Festival of the Arts: Parable of the Sower; Off-Broadway: Parable of the Sower, Suffs; 2nd National Tour: The Book of Mormon. Broadway: Suffs. Television: Mysteries of Laura (NBC), Happyish (Showtime), Broad City (Comedy Central). Film: Brooklyn Love Stories, Canaries, The Singing Telegram. Training: Carnegie Mellon University. www.tsilala.com  @tsilalabrock

Joey Collins (Adam, Silvius) Folger Theatre: debut; Studio Theatre: The Scenarios, Theater J: An Enemy of the People. Regional: Berkshire Theatre Group: At Home at the Zoo (BTCA award), The Homecoming (BTCA nomination); Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Suddenly Last Summer; PlayMakers Repertory Theatre: Tartuffe; The Old Globe: The Real Thing; also: American Conservatory Theatre;  Contemporary American Theater Festival; Cleveland Playhouse; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Cincinnati Playhouse; Pittsburgh Public Theater; Merrimack Repertory Theatre; White Heron Theatre Company; Cape Playhouse, Barrington Stage Company. Broadway: The Glass Menagerie, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Lonesome West. Off-Broadway: Galileo; The Good Soul of  Szechwan; 1599; St. Joan of The Stockyards; alice, Alice, ALICE!; Venice Preserv’d; Vieux Carré; Apartment 3A; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Tour: To Kill a Mockingbird, A Celtic Celebration. Film: Chest Candy, There Is a Monster, Bittersweet, Enough is Enough, Modern Man. Television: Kidnapped, Law & Order, All My Children. www.joeycollins.net @mrjoeycollins

Ahmad Kamal (Touchstone) Folger Theatre: debut; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Guys and Dolls, Babbitt, Everybody, Richard III;
Arena Stage: Holiday; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Gloria (Helen Hayes Nomination – Best Supporting Actor), Kiss; Mosaic
Theater Company: The Return, Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in The New World; Signature Theatre: 4,380 Nights; Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre Center. Regional: Northlight Theatre: Selling Kabul; OKC Rep: LIFE SUCKS; Amphibian Stage: Baba, The Handless King. Off-Broadway: The Public: Sumo (Lucille Lortel and Dorian Award Nominations – Best Featured Actor). Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School: MA in Professional Acting; University of Virginia: BFA in Drama. @king_o_egypt

Raven Lorraine (Corin, Phebe) Folger Theatre: debut; Arena Stage: Fremont Ave (world premiere); Theater Alliance: Covenant (Helen Hayes nomination: Outstanding Supporting Actor); Olney Theatre Center/ Roundhouse Theatre: FELA! (Helen Hayes Award: Outstanding Ensemble); Shakespeare Theatre Company: King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing; Kennedy Center TYA: How to Catch a Star; Synetic Theatre: Treasure Island, Hansel & Gretel, Hunchback of Notre Dame. Only Make Believe: Company Member. Regional: American Shakespeare Center: Little Women, King Lear, Comedy of Errors, The Winter’s Tale, Sense & Sensibility; Virginia Repertory Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; TheatreLAB: When Last We Flew; Richmond Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Film: Shanidar. @ravenlorraine

Sabrina Lynne Sawyer (Celia) Folger Theatre: LEAR (Reading Room Festival, 2026), A Room in the Castle (co-production with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company), The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Room in the Castle: Reading Room Festival, 2023. Studio Theatre: Exception to the Rule; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2; Imagination Stage: Inside Out and Backwards; Front Porch Arts Collective: Chicken & Biscuits; National tour: National Players (Olney Theatre Center): A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Raisin in the Sun. Only Make Believe Company Member. BA, Acting, University of Southern California. sabrinalynnesawyer.com

John Sygar (LeBeau, Amiens, Musician, and Music Director) Folger Theatre: debut; Arena Stage: Swept Away; Kennedy Center: Look Both Ways; Capital Repertory Albany: Once; Olney Theatre Center: Beauty and the Beast, A.D.16, Once; Signature Theatre: Light Years; Round House Theatre: Spring Awakening; Monumental Theatre Co.: Head Over Heels. New York: Broadway: Swept Away. Other credits: Only Make Believe (Company Member), songwriter for baseball hat. Instagram: @jsyg

Corey Ahearn (u/s Lebeau, Amiens, Musician, Adam, Silvius) Folger Theatre: debut; Frederick Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It; Laurel Mill Playhouse: Romeo and Juliet; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Cumberland Theater: The Merchant of Venice; Baltimore Shakespeare Factory: Galathea; NOVA Nightsky Theater: Romeo and Juliet; The British Players: As You Like It; Grassroots Shakespeare DC: The Tempest; Frederick Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Sirra Faal (u/s Rosalind, Celia) Folger Theatre: debut; Round House Theatre: Sojourners, Nollywood Dreams; Constellation Theatre Company: Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors; NextStop Theatre Company: Chicken and Biscuits. @sirra.faal

Jaden Michael Madgett (u/s Orlando) Folger Theatre: debut; Spooky Action Theatre: Tambo and Bones; Howard University: Sonnets and Soul, Rev, Black Nativity; The Garage: Sweet Trip, Beetle. Awards: two-time Owen Dodson Award Winner. Education: Howard University, BFA; Kinder HSPVA, Acting Concentration. @JadenMichaelMadgett

Andrew Quilpa (u/s Touchstone) Folger Theatre: The Cuban Vote (Reading Room Festival 2024); The COIL Project: Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Art; Faction of Fools: How the Sausage Gets Made, Love Like Tuesday, Missed Connections; The Puppet Co.: The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, Witch Wartsmith’s Halloween Spooktacular; Adventure Theatre MTC: Fantastagirl and the Math Monster, Luchadora!; Rorschach Theatre: Night of the Living Dead, She Kills Monsters 2e, 410 [GONE]; We Happy Few: A Midnight Dreary, R.U.R. Film: The Girl with the Lantern Heart, Paperless Pulp. Training: University of Virginia. @android.quilpa www.andrewquilpa.com

Eliezer Tshianyi (u/s Duke Senior/Duke Frederick and Ollie/As Cast) Folger Theatre: debut. The Theatre Lab: Venus In Fur. West Virginia University: Sight Unseen, The Shape of Things, June Moon, Sweet Bird of Youth.

Karen Ann Daniels is the Director of Programming and Performance at the Folger Shakespeare Library and 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).

In her prior role as the associate director of The Old Globe’s Arts Engagement department, she managed community partnerships, and created, piloted, and implemented cornerstone programs such as Globe for All, Behind the Curtain, coLAB, Community Voices, and Reflecting Shakespeare. She is a thought-leader, facilitator, and contributing architect for creating tools to help cultural institutions integrate anti-racism, equity, accessibility, community and audience engagement, and shared leadership as a long-term mission-oriented strategy for organizational growth. She is a 2021 Fellow at the Atlantic Fellows on Racial Equity, a network of leaders from the US and South Africa working to build expansive new futures in which Black people, and all people of color, are seen, valued, and respected. She served as chair of the City of Chula Vista’s Cultural Arts Commission, as well as the New California Arts Fund Leadership and Learning Committees, and is a co-producer and facilitator for the biannual Shakespeare in Prisons Conference and Network. In recent years, her creative work focused on co-creation as a composer/lyricist/playwright for musicals like gather ‘round and The Ruby in Us, centering the lives and stories of community.

Timothy Douglas (Director) Folger Theatre: Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing; Arena Stage: King Hedley II, Disgraced, Nina Simone: Four Women; The Kennedy Center: Long Way Down; Round House Theatre: A Lesson Before Dying, Permanent Collection, Two Trains Running, Father Comes Home From the Wars, Gem of the Ocean, Nine Night; Signature Theatre: Spunk, The Color Purple (Helen Hayes Award/Best Musical), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea; Theatre Alliance: Insurrection, Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Last Orbit of Billy Mars. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, Boston Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Milwaukee Rep, New Orleans Opera, Shakespeare and Company, South Coast Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and many others. Off Broadway: Ars Nova, Classic Stage Company. International: Downstage (New Zealand), Great Theatre of China (Shanghai), National Theatret (Norway), NIDA (Australia), Toi Whakaari (New Zealand). www.timothydouglas.org

Tony Thomas (Choreographer) Folger Theatre: Twelfth Night, Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes Award winner). Berkeley Repertory Theatre/ Mosaic Theatre/ Baltimore Center Stage: Mexodus (Helen Hayes Award nomination); Studio Theatre: PASSOVER, White Noise, Good Bones, People, Places, and Things, FLOW, Love, Love, Love, P.Y.G., Fat Ham, The Colored Museum (Helen Hayes Award nominations); Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements; Imagination Stage: Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Miss Nelson is Missing, P. Nokio, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Freshest Snow Whyte; Constellation Theatre Company: AIDA, Mysticism & Music; Joe’s Movement Emporium: Out of the Vineyard; Theatre Alliance: Word Becomes Flesh (Helen Hayes Award nomination). Studio Theatre: FLOW; Constellation Theatre Company: The Last 5 Years; Arena Stage: The Freewheelin’ Insurgents. National Tour: West Side Story.

KOKAYI (Composer) Folger Theatre: debut; Mosaic Theatre Company: Young John Lewis. Artist: Kevin Hart’s Laugh at My Pain, Black Beauty, MTV’s Rebel Music, CNN Great Big Story, Nickelodeon, BET How I’m Living. Guggenheim Fellow Composition, Grammy Nominee Best Urban Alternative Song. www.kokayi.com, @kokayi

Gisela Estrada (Scenic Designer) Folger Theatre: Twelfth Night (Associate Scenic Designer); Theater Alliance: Covenant (Helen Hayes Award: Outstanding Scenic Design), FireWork, The Trans-Atlantic Time Traveling Company; Kennedy Center/Theater Alliance: Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (Associate Scenic Designer); Gala Hispanic Theater: Botiquín de Boleros; Solas Nua: Lie Low; Imagination Stage: Tomas and the Library Lady; Next Stop: Guards At The Taj; Washington Stage Guild: Faithless; Prince George’s Community College: Twelfth Night; Portland Playhouse: Passing Strange; A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute: Orlando Paladino. International: Teatro Presidente, El Salvador: Saturday Night Fever, Chicago, Aladdin Ballet, Awaken (Circus). MFA in Scenic Design, University of North Carolina School of the Arts. giselaestrada.com

Celeste Jennings (Costume Designer) Folger Theatre: debut. The Classical Theatre of Harlem: Memnon, Malvolio; Women’s Project & Colt Coeur: Minority; Berkeley Repertory Theatre/ La Jolla Playhouse: Monsters (upcoming); Delaware Resident Ensemble Players: Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spike (upcoming); Huntington Theatre Company: Fun Home; International Theatre Amsterdam: Minor Music at the End of the World; Geffen Playhouse: Furlough’s Paradise; The Old Globe: Appropriate. Fellowships: Terrance McNally Fellow with Rattlestick Theatre; Former 2050 Artistic Fellowship at NYTW. @celestejenn_

Minjoo Kim (Lighting Designer) Folger Theatre: Twelfth Night; Studio Theatre: English, Fat Ham; Signature Theatre: King of the Yees; Olney Theatre Center: Waitress, The Brothers Paranormal; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Comeuppance, The Sensational Sea-Minkettes; Round House: Ink, The Great Leap. Regional: Wilma Theater: The Comeuppance; City Theatre Company: American Fast; Pittsburgh Public Theater: The Chief; Kansas City Repertory Theatre: The Royale, Christmas Carol;  Bristol Riverside Theatre: Clue; TheatreSquared: Cambodian Rock Band, Violet; Cygnet Theatre: Life Sucks; Diversionary Theatre: One in Two. Off-Broadway: The Bushwick Starr: Demon. International: South Korea: Space Owul,  Dongsoong Art Center, Seoul Art Space Mullae; China: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. Awards: The Royale, selected for the National Exhibit at Prague Quadrennial, 2023. minjoo-design.com

Miki Vale (Sound Designer and Lyricist) Folger Theatre: The Beatrice Project (Reading Room Festival, 2025). Sound Design: New Village Arts: La Havana Madrid; The Old Globe/Globe for All: Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare Call and Response; Moxie Theatre: Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members: Coronado Playhouse: Barbecue. Original Music: Oceanside Theatre Company: Manny and the Wise Queens. Original music and cast: The Old Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Original Music, Sound Design, Producer: SoulKiss Theater: 2 Rappers 2 Plays. Founder: SoulKiss Theater. Awards: 2021 San Diego Music Awards Song of the Year, 2017 Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Honoree @mikivalethemc

Otis Ramsey-Zöe (Dramaturg) Folger Theatre: DC New Play Development (Reading Room Festival, 2025). Regional: Arena Stage, Round House Theatre, Theater Alliance, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Mosaic Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Playwrights’ Center, Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Sundance Institute, The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Baltimore Center Stage. Posts: David Geffen School of Drama, Carnegie Mellon University, Northeastern University, University of Maryland, American University, Howard University, and banished? productions.

Danica Rodriguez (Casting Director) Folger Theatre: Twelfth Night, Our Verse in Time to Come; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya, Kunene & The King, Leopoldstadt, Babbitt, The Comedy of Errors, The Matchbox Magic Flute, Macbeth, The Lehman Trilogy, As You Like It, Macbeth In Stride, Evita, Here There Are Blueberries, King Lear, Jane Anger, Much Ado About Nothing, Red Velvet, Our Town, The Merchant of Venice; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes*, Incendiary; Kennedy Center: The Day You Begin. Regional: JAG Productions: Next to Normal; The Civilians: El Condor Magico, and others. New York: Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: cullud wattah*, Romeo y Julieta, Soft Power, for colored girls…, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park), Mojada, Ain’t No Mo’*. Awards: Theatre Communications Group 2021 Rising Leader of Color. Founding Trainer with Broadway for Racial Justice Casting Directive. BA in Film & Media Studies, Dartmouth College. DanicaRodriguez.com @danicarodriguezcasting | *world premiere

Casey Kaleba  (Fight and Intimacy Director) Folger Theatre: Hamlet, Richard III, Julius Caesar; Washington National Opera: Aida, Macbeth, Il Trovatore; Wolf Trap Opera: Carmen, Silent Night, Don Giovanni; Olney Theatre Center: Appropriate, Red Pitch; Round House Theatre: Rules for Living, The Inheritance; Signature Theatre: Pippin, Billy Elliot, Ragtime. Regional Credits: Guthrie Theatre: Hamlet, King Lear; Northern Stage: Peter & Wendy, The Play That Goes Wrong, Sweat; Glimmerglass Festival: Pagliacchi, Elizabeth Cree, Romeo et Juliette. Awards: Five-time Helen Hayes nominee. www.ToothAndClawCombat.com

Tori Schuchmann (Production Stage Manager) Folger Theatre: The Beatrice Project (Reading Room Festival, 2025), Romeo and Juliet, Rap Monologues (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: Poppea, The Return of Ulysses; University of Maryland: Dance²; Arts on the Horizon: The Laundromat Show. torischuchmann.com

Jessica Hagy (Assistant Stage Manager) Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet, Where We Belong; Ford’s Theatre: Twelve Angry Men, The Trip to Bountiful; Shakespeare Theatre Company: King Lear, The Rover, Romeo and Juliet; Signature Theatre: Play On!, RENT, Which Way to the Stage, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea, Selling Kabul, Soft Power, A Funny Thing Happened…, In the Heights; Cabaret Seasons 2023-2025; Round House Theatre: School Girls, Spring Awakenin;g Imagination Stage: P. Nokio. Television: A Capitol Fourth; National Memorial Day Concert. Education: University of Mary Washington, BA in Theatre and Arts Administration.

Alexus Wells (Production Assistant) Folger Theatre: Reading Room Festival 2026, Julius X: A Re-envisioning of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare; Folger Consort: Resplendent Joy: Christmas Traditions from Spain and Portugal.