Booking and details
Dates & TicketsDates Jun 14–15 & Jun 21–22, 2025
Venue Folger Shakespeare Library
Tickets Individual tickets $30 | Bring a date (or friend) for $50
DC, I Love You in an immersive experience that centers real love stories from the community, bringing them to life in the neighborhoods where they took place. We’re turning everyday Washington, DC, locations into a stage.
Ready or Not at the Folger
Audiences will begin their journey at the Folger’s Haskell Center, where they’ll be greeted by artists and led on a guided tour through a series of surprising, poignant, and playful scenes. Each moment unfolds in a unique spot around the historic Folger Shakespeare Library—turning hidden nooks and iconic spaces into stages for love in all its messy glory.
A walking rom-com adventure
These performances are rain or shine. Before the event, you’ll receive detailed instructions about the starting point. When you arrive, you’ll meet your tour guide and watch the first scene, then walk together to the next location.
Just listed in The Washington Post‘s “The 49 best things to do in D.C. this weekend and next week” and Washingtonian‘s “10 Romantic Summer Date Ideas in the DC Area.”
Meet the creator
Katherine Harroff
Katherine Harroff is a playwright, producer, director, and actor and Artist-in-Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library where she also serves as the Director of Engagement. She is the former Associate Director of Arts Engagement at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Ms. Harroff has pioneered documentarian and community-based performance, developing stories, teaching everyday artists, and sharing the tools of storytelling and professional theater with myriad communities. In addition to documentary theater, her work has included installation experiences, site-specific performances, as well as intimate and large-scale community focused events celebrating the stories, lives, traditions, and interests of the community she is engaged in.
About DC, I Love You
DC, I Love You is the second part of the three-part DC Amplified project, which seeks to gather and uplift community stories within Washington, DC. In this phase, audience members are invited to enjoy an original performance experience where short plays inspired by real love stories are staged throughout the community businesses and neighborhoods where the events would actually take place. Audiences will be led to different locations in a block radius where each new location will reveal another scene in the journey of the play. Discover love, art, and community in a way that’s uniquely DC.
Listen to Katherine share her experience on the importance of community engagement in this episode of Theater District podcast.
Cast
Dylan Arredondo
Dylan Arredondo (Man 1) Folger: debut. Ford’s Theatre: Sister Act; Signature Theatre: A Funny Thing…Forum, Daphne’s Dive; Round House Theatre: Quixote Nuevo; Rep Stage: The Glass Menagerie; Olney Theatre Center: Lend Me a Soprano, Fiddler on the Roof, Beauty & the Beast, The Great Gatsby, Alice in Wonderland, Othello; Kennedy Center: Mortification of Fovea Munson; Constellation Theatre Company: School for Lies, White Snake; 1st Stage: The Nance; Spooky Action Theatre: Frontières Sans Frontières, Lady…Falling Flowers; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing. www.DylanArredondo.com
Dominique Gray
Dominique Gray (Bobby/ Man 3) Folger: debut. Keegan Theatre: Hand to God, Apropos of Nothing (forthcoming); Imagination Stage: 10 Seconds, The Last Martyr (regional tour). Regional: Unstrung Harpist Productions: Richard II. Training: The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, where he performed in numerous productions, including WitchBeth, Thank You, The In-Between, Fishtown, Jack and Melissa, Twelfth Night, and more.
Ixchel
Ixchel (B/ Tour Guide/Narrator 1) Folger: debut. Ixchel is a local actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comic, and storyteller born and raised in the DC area. Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences 2025 National Tour: Look Both Ways; GALA Hispanic Theatre: Frida Libre; Theater Alliance: Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience; Rorschach Theatre: Human Museum (director); NextStop Theatre Company: In the Heights; Constellation Theatre Company: Incognito. She has been featured for her comedy, music, and storytelling for Grassroots Comedy, Improbable Comedy, Comedy Loft, Callback Comedy Productions, Busboys and Poets, The Washington Roast, Spit Dat in Residence at Woolly Mammoth, The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, Rhizome DC, and 7DrumCity.
Yesenia Iglesias
Yesenia Iglesias (Maggie 1) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses, Love’s Labor’s Lost. Huntington Theatre Company: Don’t Eat the Mangos; Signature Theatre: Primary Trust; Daphne’s Dive, Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity; Arena Stage: POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive; Studio Theatre: At the Wedding; Olney Theatre Center: Dance Nation; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Hamlet, King Charles III; The Kennedy Center: Kid Prince and Pablo; Round House Theatre: The Legend of Georgia McBride; Theatre Alliance: The Garbologists; Constellation Theatre Company: The Caucasian Chalk Circle. University of Washington, MFA.
Sedona Salb
Sedona Salb (Tanya/Assistant Director) Folger: debut. She is a recent graduate of American University’s Theatre Program and was most recently seen in AU’s productions of Dance Nation and As You Like It: The Musical. Aside from acting, she is passionate about directing and playwriting. She is so grateful to be able to work with Nadia Guevara again after working with her on AU’s productions of Fefu and Her Friends and Spring Awakening. @sedonasalb
Creative team
Katherine Harroff
Katherine Harroff is a playwright, producer, director, and actor and Artist-in-Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library where she also serves as the Director of Engagement. She is the former Associate Director of Arts Engagement at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Ms. Harroff has pioneered documentarian and community-based performance, developing stories, teaching everyday artists, and sharing the tools of storytelling and professional theater with myriad communities. In addition to documentary theater, her work has included installation experiences, site-specific performances, as well as intimate and large-scale community focused events celebrating the stories, lives, traditions, and interests of the community she is engaged in.
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