Booking and details
Dates Thu, May 9, 2024, 6:30pm
Tickets $25 with discounts for Folger Members and Subscribers
Karen Ann Daniels, Artistic Director of Folger Theatre, leads a discussion with Metamorphoses creative team members to discuss this new staging of Mary Zimmerman’s critically acclaimed Ovid adaptation.
She will be joined by director Psalmayene24, costume designer Mika Eubanks, and choreographer Tony Thomas.
Learn more about how this production reimagines the play’s iconic staging, what it means to examine the classics through a contemporary lens, and the enduring appeal of myths.
About the production
Ovid’s classic tales come to astonishing life in Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation where gods and mortals experience love, loss, and transformation.
Juxtaposing the mythic and the modern, the stories of Aphrodite, Midas, Orpheus, Cupid, and others are told in a whimsical and poignant fashion, reminding us of the joys, follies, and heartbreaks of being human.
Metamorphoses was nominated for three Tony Awards in 2002, including “Best Play.”
Psalmayene 24**
Psalmayene 24 (Director) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction). Directing: Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements; Studio Theatre: Purlie Victorious, The Colored Museum, Good Bones, Flow, Pass Over; Ford’s Theatre: Necessary Sacrifices: A Radio Play; Mosaic Theater Company: Young John Lewis: Prodigy of Protest (Librettist/Lyricist), Monumental Travesties (Playwright), Dear Mapel (Playwright/Actor), Les Deux Noirs (Playwright), Native Son (Director); Joe’s Movement Emporium: Out of the Vineyard (Playwright); Theater Alliance: Word Becomes Flesh (Director); Imagination Stage: Cinderella: The Remix (Playwright/Director); African Continuum Theatre Company: Free Jujube Brown! (Playwright/Actor). Television/Film: HBO’s The Wire (Actor). Helen Hayes Award and Victor Shargai Leadership Award recipient. @psalmayene24
Mika Eubanks***
Mika Eubanks (Costume Design) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes nomination); Arena Stage: The Motion; Baltimore Center Stage: Pray, Fires In The Mirror. Regional: The Old Globe: The XIXth; Barrington Stage: N/A; Classical Theatre of Harlem: Twelfth Night, Othello. Off-Broadway: Ars Nova: Heaux Church; Manhattan Theatre Club: The Monsters; Lincoln Center: Flex; Vineyard Theatre: Lessons in Survival: 1971. Film/Television: Candace (Amazon Prime), Souvenir. Awards: Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Audelco Award. mikaeubanks.com
Tony Thomas**
Tony Thomas (Choreographer) Folger Theatre: As You Like it, Twelfth Night, Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes Award – Outstanding Choreography); Studio Theatre: P.Y.G. or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle (Helen Hayes nomination), Pass Over, Flow, Good Bones, Fat Ham (Helen Hayes nomination), People, Places & Things, The Colored Museum (Helen Hayes nomination), Imagination Stage: P. Nokio, Dory Fantasmagory, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Miss Nelson is Missing; Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements; Mosaic Theatre: Young John Lewis; Woolly Mammoth Theatre: A Fine Madness; Theatre Alliance: Word Becomes Flesh (Helen Hayes nomination). Off-Broadway: Minetta Lane/Daryl Roth Theatre: Mexodus (Lucille Lortel nomination). @tonythomasii
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).