The Reading Room Festival is a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations. Shakespeare serves as a catalyst for today's playwrights—in a collaborative community, artists, critics, and scholars unite and actively engage in creating new narratives that speak to our time. Works presented at the Reading Room Festival are each at different points of their creative journey, and a goal of the Festival is that these plays will later be staged at the Folger or regional American theaters. Several Reading Room Festival presentations have enjoyed exciting post-Festival outings.

Schedule of Events:

Henry 6
by William Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by Barry Edelstein
7:30pm

In a multimedia presentation, Artistic Director of San Diego's Old Globe Barry Edelstein shares selections and commentary on the process of creating Henry 6.  The Old Globe's adaptation of Shakespeare's rarely produced Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III into a thrilling two-part event featured a cast and crew of over 1,000 San Diegans and over 50 community-based nonprofits and organizations. Charles McNulty of the L.A. Times declared: "This is what Shakespeare for the people really looks like." In the spirit of this community-building epic, this presentation of Henry 6 shows video footage of the production with interactive elements, and the post-show conversation will feature Katie Harroff, Folger's Director of Engagement who previously served as Arts Engagement Director at the Old Globe,  joining Edelstein to discuss their process of inviting communities into the process of adapting and performing Henry 6.

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