Booking and details
Dates Fri, May 16, 2025 at 6:30pm
Tickets $25 with discounts for Folger Members and Subscribers
Please note: Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.
Join us as Director Mei Ann Teo, Composer Be Steadwell, and Voice and Text Coach Jen Rabbitt Ring share their creative perspectives on Folger Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night in an insightful pre-performance discussion moderated by Folger Theatre Artistic Director Karen Ann Daniels.
Creative team
Karen Ann Daniels
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).
Mei Ann Teo
Mei Ann Teo (Director) makes theatre and film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, Teo creates across genres, including music theatre, intermedial participatory work, reimagining classics, and documentary theatre. Teo’s work has been in international festivals including Belgium’s Festival de Liege (Lyrics from Lockdown by Bryonn Bain), Edinburgh International Fringe, Beijing International Festival (Labyrinth – Top 8 of Fest in Beijing News), Singapore Theatre Festival (Becoming A Character).
Be Steadwell
Be Steadwell (Composer) (They, She, He, Be) Folger Theatre: debut. Be Steadwell is a queer pop composer and storyteller from Washington DC. Be composes music on stage using looping, vocal layering and beat boxing. Be’s work is all about Black queer joy and love. Be’s goal as a musician is to make other black girlies, introverts and weirdos feel seen and loved.
Jen Rabbitt Ring
Jen Rabbitt Ring (Voice and Text Coach) Folger Theatre: debut. Arena Stage: Change Agent; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Public Obscenities, The Sensational Sea-Minkettes, Incendiary, Amm(i)gone; Mosaic Theater Company: Mary’s Seacole, Monumental Travesties; Rorschach Theatre Company: Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Chemical Exile, A Bid to Save the World; Taffety Punk: She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange; Theatre 4615: Separate Rooms (world premiere). Regional: Mile Square Theatre: Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi, Flare; Colab Arts: Romeo y Julieta, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Storytellers: Hamlet. Shakespeare & Company: Affiliated Actor Training Faculty. Designated Linklater Voice Teacher.