Booking and details
Dates & TicketsDates Thu, May 9, 2024, 6:30pm
Venue Folger Theatre
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: debut. Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements, The Freewheelin’ Insurgents; Studio Theatre: The Colored Museum (upcoming), Good Bones, Flow, Pass Over; Ford’s Theatre: Necessary Sacrifices: A Radio Play; Theatre Alliance: The Word Becomes Flesh (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Direction of a Play); Mosaic Theater: Native Son. Playwriting: Mosaic Theater: Monumental Travesties, Dear Mapel, Les Deux Noirs; Joe’s Movement Emporium: Out of the Vineyard; Imagination Stage: Cinderella: The Remix. Acting: Arena Stage: Ruined, Cuttin’ Up, Anthems; Mosaic Theater: Dear Mapel. Television: The Wire. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Mosaic Theater.
Mika Eubanks
Mika Eubanks (Costume Design) Folger Theatre: debut. Classical Theater of Harlem: Seize The King; Lincoln Center Theater: Flex; The Vineyard Theatre: Lessons in Survival: 1971. Regional: Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Feeding Beatrice; Baltimore Center Stage/Long Wharf Theatre: Fires In The Mirror; Old Globe: The XIXth; St. Louis Shakespeare Festival: King Lear starring André De Shields; Asolo Repertory Theater: Grand Horizons; Yale Repertory Theatre/CTH: Twelfth Night, for which she received the Connecticut Critic Circle Award for outstanding costume design. Film: Candace. Television: Initiative 29 (Hulu). Currently located in New York, but hailing from Maryland, Mika received her MFA in Costume Design at Yale School of Drama and holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2022, she served as the costume assistant on the Tony Award-winning Best Musical A Strange Loop. mikaeubanks.com
Tony Thomas
Tony Thomas (Choreographer) Folger Theatre: debut; Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements. Tony is a New York based director, choreographer, and interior architect working in a wide range of arts and entertainment mediums. Tony was trained by Debbie Allen, Shawn Cosby, and Mike Malone, while working with Broadway’s David Saint and Joey McKneely, Steven Nachamie, Christopher Huggins, Tony Powell, Dancing with The Stars’ Jeffon Avin, and many others. Tony delivers innovation in dance from his core strengths in Ballet, Modern, Latin, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Contemporary, and Musical Theatre. His directing technique involves movement, gesture-work, creative staging, and detailed character development – ultimately driving the story through visual interest. Always aiming to redefine the wisdom and artistry of the legends, Tony’s expressive style and pedagogy enforces focus, fluidity, innovation, and precision in the arts and entertainment industry.
Karen Ann Daniels
Karen Ann Daniels is the Director of Programming/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).
