Booking and details
Dates Sat, Feb 01, 2025, 12pm
Tickets Free; Registration required
Please note: Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.
DC, I Love You is an immersive performance experience that brings real love stories to life across the neighborhoods where they originated. Short plays are staged in local businesses and community spots, with each new location revealing a new chapter in a truthfully inspired romcom adventure. Join us for an exclusive workshop with the Reading Room Festival, offering a first look at one of the original DC, I Love You scripts, set to premiere this spring. Discover love, art, and community in a way that’s uniquely DC.
About DC, I Love You and DC Amplified
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.
Who’s Who
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.
Nadia Guevara**
Nadia Guevara (Associate Director) Folger Theatre: Cymbeline: A Telenovela Dramatic Western (The Reading Room Festival 2026), DC I Love You: First Dates; Other DMV: Imagination Stage: Cinderella: A Salsa Fairy Tale; Keegan Theatre: N; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Merry Wives (Helen Hayes – Best Ensemble). Regional: Dallas Theater Center, McCarter Theatre. NYC/Off-Broadway: Keen Company/Drama League: Cell; National Queer Theatre: The Survival; The Public: Apple Bottom; The New Group: The Capitalist and the Factory Worker. Additional credits with New York Stage and Film, Red Bull Theater, Latinx Playwrights Circle. Awards: Drama League Stage Directing Fellow, NALAC Fellow, Actor of the Year – San Diego Critics Circle. nadiaguevara.com