Booking and details
Reserve Your SpotDates Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 7pm
Venue Folger Theatre
Tickets Free; registration required
Join the Folger for a free screening of the 2019 Shakespeare’s Globe production of Richard II. Adjoa Andoh MBE conceived, co-directed, and played the lead in the UK’s first all women-of-color production of this Shakespeare play. The production offers, as Andoh has explained, a study in who each character is as a human being.
About the Director’s Residency
Andoh is the inaugural resident in the new Director’s Residency at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and this staged reading is one of the public programs scheduled for her April 19-25 residency.
The Director’s Residency, established by Folger Director Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper and organized through the Director’s office, aims to connect a prominent artist or thinker with the resources of the Folger in order to engage with Shakespeare and the humanities in new and innovative ways.
During her April residency, Andoh will be in Washington, DC, consulting the Folger’s collection, participating in public programs at the Folger, visiting other cultural centers, and working with students.
Generous support for public programs related to the Director’s Residency is provided by Vinton and Sigrid Cerf.
Adjoa Andoh MBE
An actor, writer, and director with a career spanning 4 decades, Adjoa Andoh is best known for playing Lady Danbury in Bridgerton and in its prequel Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, for which she is a 4-time nominee at the NAACP Awards. She starred alongside Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood’s Nelson Mandela biographical film Invictus. Her many television roles also include Nenneke in the Netflix blockbuster fantasy drama, The Witcher. On the stage, Andoh has had lead roles at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court Theatre, Young Vic, The Kiln, and in 2019, she conceived, co-directed and played the lead in Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe in the UK’s first all women-of-color production.
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