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Where We Belong
Fans of the Bard will find the world’s largest collection of Shakespeareana at this newly renovated and expanded museum and library reopening in June. Located in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, the Folger has more First Folios—the rare 1623 book containing all of Shakespeare’s plays—than anywhere else in the world (82, in fact). An Elizabethan-style stage presents both classic and new works (such as Mohegan playwright-performer Madeline Sayet’s <anchor>Where We Belong</anchor> February 15 to March 10). Newly accessible entrances lead to interactive exhibits and a garden planted with rosemary, lavender, and other plants mentioned in Will’s works.
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# Where We Belong

By Madeline Sayet

Directed by Mei Ann Teo

_In association with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company_

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Madeline Sayet in _Where We Belong_. Photo by Jon Burklund

[Video](#video)

[Photo gallery](#photo-gallery)

[Caution and content transparency](#caution-and-content-transparency)

[Cast](#cast)

[Creative team](#creative-team)

[Sponsors](#sponsors)

[Accessibility](#accessibility)

[Special performances](#special-performances)

[Related events](#related-events)

## Booking and details

This event has passed.

Dates
Thu, Feb 15 – Sun, Mar 10, 2024

Tickets
$20 – $84

_To celebrate and honor members of the Indigenous community, complimentary tickets are available through the entire run of the show to those who identify as part of the community. To redeem this offer, please contact the Folger Box Office at (202) 544-7077._

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In 2015, Mohegan theater-maker Madeline Sayet travels to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare, where she finds a country that refuses to acknowledge its ongoing role in colonialism, just as the Brexit vote threatens to further disengage the UK from the wider world.

In this stirring solo piece, Madeline echoes a journey to England braved by her Native ancestors in the 1700s following treaty betrayals—and forces us to consider what it means to belong in an increasingly globalized world.

Following its world premiere in June 2021—presented by [Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company](https://www.woollymammoth.net/) and the Folger Shakespeare Library— _Where We Belong_ has enjoyed a successful [national tour](https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/programs/where-we-belong-national-tour/), with performances at Philadelphia Theatre Company, the Goodman Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Public Theater, Portland Center Stage, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

_An earlier version of_ Where We Belong _was produced in London at Richmix and Shakespeare’s Globe in 2019,_ _as part of Border Crossings’ Origins Festival, the UK’s only large-scale multidisciplinary festival of Indigenous arts and culture._

_**Please note:** Children under the age of 4 are not permitted._

## Watch the trailer

## Conversation with playwright and performer, Madeline Sayet

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#### Production photos

_All photos by Erika Nizborski Photography_

## **Caution**

This production uses flashing lights that may not be suitable for those with sensitivities to light. Please see a visitor experience team member for details.

## **Content transparency**

This production contains depictions of racism and discussions of borders, war, loss of language, residential schools, colonial theft of human remains and repatriation.

## Cast

Madeline Sayet ![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/06/Madeline-Sayet-Playwright-Performer_Photo-by-Bret-Hartman.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

Playwright and Performer

Madeline Sayet

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### Madeline Sayet

**Madeline Sayet** ( _Playwright, Performer_) is a Mohegan theater maker who believes the stories we pass down inform our collective possible futures. Her plays include: _Where We Belong_, _Up and Down the River_, _Antigone Or And Still She Must Rise Up_, _Daughters of Leda_, _The Neverland_, and _The Fish_. As a director her work includes: Bard at the Gate: Joy Harjo’s _Wings of a Night Sky_; Perseverance Theatre: _Tlingit Christmas Carol_, _Whale Song_; South Dakota Shakespeare: _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_; Connecticut Repertory Theatre: _Henry IV_; Delaware Shakespeare: _As You Like It_; Amerinda/HERE Arts: _The Winter’s Tale_; _Powwow Highway_; Krannert Center: _The Neverland_, _Poppea_; Glimmerglass: _The Magic Flute_; 59E59: _Miss Lead_.

[View full biography](https://www.folger.edu/bio/madeline-sayet/)

### Buy the script

[Pre-order](https://events.folger.edu/8483) your copy of _Where We Belong_ (Bloomsbury Publishing) and pick it up at your performance.

### Pre-show playlist

Listen to songs from Native artists in this [Spotify playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3FUXNTrrYt7IhCIuX6KLPA?go=1&sp_cid=454c9b7ab36967e146b4250e3c997a5a&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1), created for _Where We Belong_ at The Public Theater.

### Related podcast

[Madeline Sayet on Where We Belong](https://www.folger.edu/podcasts/shakespeare-unlimited/where-we-belong-sayet/)![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2021/06/Madeline-Sayet_006_Jon-Burkland_web_2024.jpg?fit=10%2C10)

Shakespeare Unlimited

### Madeline Sayet on Where We Belong

Posted
June 1, 2021

We talk with Madeline Sayet about growing up Mohegan in Connecticut, her evolving relationship with Shakespeare today, and what it means to belong in a complicated world.

## Creative team

Mei Ann Teo ![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/06/Mei-Ann-Teo-Thumbnail.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

Director

Mei Ann Teo

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### Mei Ann Teo

**Mei Ann Teo** _(Director)_ is a queer immigrant from Singapore making theater and film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, they create across genres, including music theater, intermedial participatory work, reimagining _classics, and documentary theater. Teo’s work has been in international festivals including_ Belgium’s Festival de Liege, Edinburgh International Fringe, Beijing International Festival, Singapore Theatre Festival.

[View full biography](https://www.folger.edu/bio/mei-ann-teo/)

Hao Bai ![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/07/Bai-Hao-2023.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

Production Designer

Hao Bai

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### Hao Bai

**Hao Bai** _(Production Designer)_ Hao is a multidisciplinary designer in lighting, sound, video projection, and world-building (environment) for live and virtual performances.

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Asa Benally ![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/06/Benally-Asa-2024.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

Costume Designer

Asa Benally

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### Asa Benally

**Asa Benally** ( _Costume Designer_) Citizen of the Navajo and Cherokee Nations. Stratford Festival: _The Rez Sisters, 1939_; Waterwell: _7 Minutes_; The Gingold Group: _Mrs. Warren’s Profession_; Keen Company: _Blues for an Alabama Sky_(Drama Desk nomination); Syracuse Stage: _Somewhere Over the Border_; George Street Playhouse: _Too Heavy For Your Pocket_; Westport Country Playhouse: _Skeleton Crew_; Juilliard School: _Father Comes Home From the Wars_); Public Theater Mobile Unit: _Measure for Measure_; Yale Rep: _Cymbeline_; The Bushwick School of Drama: _Coriolanus, The Seagull_; Perseverance Theater: _Whale Song_; Yale Cabaret: _Roberto Zucco_;HERE: _The Winter’s Tale._ [Asabenally.com](https://www.asabenally.com/) @Asa\_Benally\_Design

Colin K. Bills ![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2024/01/Bills-Colin-K-2024.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

Consultant

Colin K. Bills

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### Colin K. Bills

**Colin K. Bills**( _Consultant_) is a DC-based theater artist, having worked with nearly every theater in the area.  At Folger, he designed the lighting for the 2019 production of _Love’s Labor’s Lost._ He is a Company Member and Board Member at Woolly Mammoth where he has designed over fifty productions and was the Production Manager for the National Tour of _Where We Belong_.  He was a founding member of the devised theater troupe dog & pony dc, serving as director, writer, actor, and designer for a dozen new works including _Beertown_ and _A Killing Game_.  Colin is the recipient of a Princess Grace Award and three Helen Hayes Awards.  He has taught design at Howard University and is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Genevieve Dornemann ![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2024/01/Dornemann-Genevieve-2024.jpeg?fit=50%2C50)

Assistant Stage Manager

Genevieve Dornemann

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### Genevieve Dornemann

Genevieve is excited to be working with Folger Theatre for the first time. As an Assistant Stage Manager, her work includes: Kennedy Center TYA: _The Mortification of Fovea Munson_; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: _Teenage Dick_; Theater J: _Compulsion or the House Behind_. Genevieve has also worked as a Production Stage Manager at: Rep Stage: _Songs for a New World_; Synetic Theater: _The Tempest_. She has worked as a Production Assistant at Shakespeare Theatre Company: _Evita_, _Macbeth in Stride_; Signature Theatre: _Sweeney Todd_. She also enjoys running shows and has worked as Deck Crew at Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Lookingglass Theatre Company.

Taylor Kiechlin ![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/11/Kiechlin-Taylor-300x300-1.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

Production Stage Manager

Taylor Kiechlin

![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/11/Kiechlin-Taylor-300x300-1.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

### Taylor Kiechlin

**Taylor Kiechlin**( _Production Stage Manager_) Folger Theatre: _The Winter’s Tale_, _Nathan the Wise_(in association with Theatre J) _._ Credits include: Studio Theatre: _Fun Home, Espejos:_ _Clean_; Signature Theatre Company: _Passing Strange, Into the Woods_, _La Cage aux Folles_; Ford’s Theatre: _Born Yesterday, A Christmas Carol, 12 Angry Men, Into the Woods, Fences, Silent Sky, Guys and Dolls, Come From Away: Concert at the Lincoln Memorial_; Kennedy Center: _Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie_; Theatre J: _Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story._ Other regional credits include: GLCFA: _Godspell_; BRT: _25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Quartet, Times Stands Still,  Triumph of Love, The Producers_; Williamstown Theater Festival: _Moscow x6._

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Lisa Nathans ![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/10/Nathans-Lisa-2023.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

Voice and Text Coach

Lisa Nathans

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### Lisa Nathans

**Lisa Nathans**( _Vocal Coach_) **Folger Theatre:** _The Winter’s Tale_. DC work includes Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Olney Theatre, Ford’s Theatre. Regional work includes Guthrie (Minneapolis), 5th Avenue (Seattle), Theatricum Botanicum (LA). Central School of Speech and Drama (MFA), Boston University (BFA). Associate Professor of Voice and Acting at University of Maryland’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. Lisa is a designated Linklater Voice teacher and a certified Colaianni Speech practitioner.

Emily Preis ![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2024/01/Preis-Emily-2024_2.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

Achokayis Standby

Emily Preis

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### Emily Preis

**Emily Preis** ( _Achokayis_) is a proud citizen of the Osage Nation. **Folger Theatre**: debut. Select collaborators: Eric Avery, Siobhan Brown, Elizabeth Cook, Deborah Cowell, Sabine Decatur, Madeline Easely, Imani Guy Duckett, Miranda Hall Jiménez, Daniel Leeman Smith, Madison Mayer, storäe michele, Najee Omar, Calliope Pina Parker, Maleek Rae, Mauricio Salgado, Andrina Smith, Henu Josephine Tarrant, Drew Woodson, Groundwater Arts, New Native Theatre, The Mercury Store, Perseverance Theatre, Safe Harbors NYC ensemble. Awards: 2021 YIPAP Misty Upham Award Finalist, 2023 SPACE on Ryder Farm Greenhouse Resident.

Erik Schilke ![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/06/Schilke-Erik-2024_2.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

Musical Composer & Sound Designer

Erik Schilke

![](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/06/Schilke-Erik-2024_2.jpg?fit=50%2C50)

### Erik Schilke

**Erik Schilke** ( _Musical Composer and Sound Designer_) is an ambient electronic artist and music producer working in theater, film and visual media. His debut album _Synthesis_ was recently released on the German label Hymen Records. He has previously scored film projects for acclaimed directors including the book trailer for Seth Godin’s _The Practice_ directed by Fernando Lazzari, Michael Pantozzi’s _Off the Face of the Earth_, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel’s _Flying Birds Diary_, and _The Wishing Well_ directed by Madeline Sayet. His work as a composer and sound designer has been seen at The Public Theater, Goodman Theatre, Seattle Rep (Heilman & Haver Award Nomination for best Sound Design), Philadelphia Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and Baltimore Center Stage and internationally in museums such as Pixelbase and Moravská Galerie in Prague as well as online magazines including Stash Media.

[View full biography](https://www.folger.edu/bio/erik-schilke/)

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Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

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### Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

The Tony Award®-winning Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company creates badass theatre that highlights the stunning, challenging, and tremendous complexity of our world. For over 40 years, Woolly has maintained a high standard of artistic rigor while simultaneously daring to take risks, innovate, and push beyond perceived boundaries. One of the few remaining theatres in the country to maintain a company of artists, Woolly serves an essential research and development role within the American theatre. Plays premiered here have gone on to productions at hundreds of theatres all over the world and have had lasting impacts on the field. Currently co-led by Artistic Director Maria Manuela Goyanes and Managing Director Kimberly E. Douglas, Woolly is located in Washington, DC, equidistant from the Capitol and the White House. This unique location influences Woolly’s investment in actively working towards an equitable, participatory, and creative democracy.

## Folger Theatre Sponsors

#### With special thanks to

The Share Fund

#### **Premier Season Sponsor**

Dr. Bill and Evelyn Braithwaite

#### **Season Sponsor**

Helen and David Kenney & Family

Andrea “Andi” Kasarsky

#### **Production Sponsor**

Nancy and Steve Howard ( _Romeo and Juliet_)

#### **Contributing Sponsor**

Celia and Keith Arnaud

Gail Kern Paster

#### **Associate Sponsor**

Timothy J. Carlton ( _Romeo and Juliet_)

Wes and Sly Hallman

Peter and Mary Pennington

Rick Kasten ( _Romeo and Juliet_)

#### **Artist Sponsor**

Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel

## Accessibility

Folger Theatre provides accessible seating, assisted listening devices, and ASL interpretation. Please contact us at [VisitorServices@folger.edu](mailto:VisitorServices@folger.edu) or (202) 544–7077 with questions or requests. [More information](https://www.folger.edu/visit/accessibility/)

### Relaxed performances

- Sunday, February 25, 2024, at 7:30pm
- Saturday, March 2, 2024, at 2pm

Relaxed performances are designed to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for audiences that may receive and react to information in different ways. The content of the production is the same, but strobes and flashing lights have be removed for these performances.

Please contact [VisitorServices@folger.edu](mailto:VisitorServices@folger.edu) with any additional questions.

## ASL interpretation

- Friday, March 1 at 8pm

For information about the best seat locations from which to see the interpreter, contact us at [VisitorServices@folger.edu](mailto:VisitorServices@folger.edu) or (202) 544–7077.

### Masked performances

- Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 2pm and 8pm

At the request of many audience members, Folger Theatre has denoted several performances during the 2023\|24 season as mask-required by all audience members, staff, and volunteers. If you need a mask, we are happy to provide one to you. [Learn more](https://www.folger.edu/visit/covid-19-safety-protocols/)

### Open-captioned performances

- Sunday, March 10, 2024, at 2pm and 7:30pm

Open-captioning makes live theater performances accessible by using a non-intrusive caption board at the front of the stage which scrolls the entire text of the production in real time. For information about the best seat locations from which to see the caption board, contact us at [VisitorServices@folger.edu](mailto:VisitorServices@folger.edu) or (202) 544–7077.

## Special performances

## Celebrating Native Performance

_**From Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company**_

Woolly Mammoth will present **_Celebrating Native Performance: A Core Partner Welcome_** on Tuesday, March 5 at 7:30 PM. Woolly Mammoth’s new Core Partners, **Miss Chief Rocka** (hoop dancer and performer also known as Lunacee) and **Mary Phillips** (singer and performer, member of Zotigh Singers and Uptown Singerz), will give performances and speak in group discussions about their artistry. The evening also includes Phillips performing along with the Zotigh Singers and an interactive demonstration on hoop dancing from Miss Chief Rocka.

**NATIVE AMERICAN ART MARKET**

Woolly Mammoth will also host its first ever **_Native American Art Market_** on Saturday, March 9 from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM. Native American artisans and craftspeople will have booths to display and sell their wares — including goods such as beadwork, jewelry, and more. The market is presented in collaboration with Native bead worker, Senajewen. The day will also include two free workshops, soon to be announced.

[Make your reservation today](https://www.woollymammoth.net/productions/celebrating-native-performance/)

### Post show discussion

- Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 7:30pm

Join us after the show for a free conversation with the cast moderated by [**Mary Kathryn Nagle**](https://www.folger.edu/bio/mary-kathryn-nagle/).

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