List of Folger Institute Artist Research Fellows
List of Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellows
(Formerly "Artist-in-Residence Fellows")
Current Artistic Research Fellowship Guidelines
2022-2023
Residential
Casey Carsel
The ink‚ the needle‚ the knife: A material study of the Jew in Shakespeare's England
Suzanne Coley
Old and New: Accessing Shakespeare's Sonnets and Embroidered Bindings
Leah Hampton
GERTRUDE(S): A novel
Megan Riordan
Deepening Service: researching culinary depictions‚ practices‚ and languaging in Shakespeare and the early modern era
Virtual
Gbenga Adesina
Hamlet on the Atlantic
Elise Ansel
Taking Liberties
Courtney Bailey
BRITCHES - a new play about Charlotte Cushman‚ developed in collaboration with Missouri incarcerated artists
Alexander D'Agostino
The Fairy King's Grimoire
Bakpak Durden
To Be Witnessed‚ in 3 acts
Jay Eddy
Mariam‚ Fair Queen of Jersey: A Rock Opera
K. M. Fikes
ANNOTATION – A Moft High Cotton Epic Poem in Three Groovements Or Otherwise Called A Moft High Cotton Trilogy: An Elizabonic™ Hypothefis
Anna McNiel
Bringing Florentine food and culture closer together: how early modern food traditions have persisted to the tables of today.
Amy Reid
Unearthing Queer Ecologies
Cleavon Smith
Minor Characters Die
2022-2023
Hannah Baker Saltmarsh, Assistant Professor of English, Mount Mercy University
"Cures for Deep Wounds" in Poetry Manuscript
Jacklyn Brickman, Lecturer, Department of Art, The Ohio State University
The Department of Planetary Futures - Division of Acclimatization
Mandy Cano Villalobos, Independent Professional Artist
Theatrum Mundi
Alexander D'Agostino, Independent Professional Artist
The Fairy King's Grimoire
Joyce Datiles, Film Director and Historian, University College London
The Landlord's Dark-Haired Daughter, an original historical drama television series
Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Independent Professional Writer
In Search of Eulalie Pelletier: A Story of Old Chicago
Mallika Kavadi, Independent Professional Filmmaker
An Eagle in a Dove-cote
Eva Rocha, Multimedia Artist, Virginia Union University
Indigenous Objectification and Persistent Contemporary Issues
Ally Zlatar, Lecturer, Philosophy, University of Glasgow
When the Body is Ill‚ The Mind Suffers: Shakespeare's unravelling of mental health‚ eating disorders and madness in Tudor England
2021-2022
Missy Dunaway, Independent Artist
Birds of The Bard: Shakespeare's Avian References in 64 Paintings
Desi Shelton, Founder and Artistic Director, Camden Rep
Shakes for Small Fries
2019-2020
Morayo Akandé, Director, Writer, and Producer, Lucid Dreamers Productions and Moyo Akandé, Producer, Lucid Dreamers Productions
1745: A Full-Length Feature Film
Dawn Hoffman, Independent Artist
Hooked on Book furniture: Clasps, Corners and Center Medallions; Materials and Techniques used in the Past, how to recreate them in the Present
Bikang Huang, Professor of English, Peking University
Shakespearean Appropriation of Classical Chinese Plays in Translation
2018-2019
Debra Ann Byrd, Producing Artistic Director & Classical Actress, Harlem Shakespeare Festival
BECOMING OTHELLO: A Black Girl's Journey
Mindy Stricke, Photographer and Interdisciplinary Artist
By Nature Much Delight
2017-2018
Hannah Baker-Saltmarsh, Poet
Research for poetry manuscript, Author Comma A Lady
Angela Iannone, Actor, Director, and Playwright
“The Prince” Play Five in The Edwin Booth Plays- Edwin Booth, Tommaso Salvini and the performance of Hamlet and Othello in 19th Century American Theatre
Hilary Leichter, Writer
The Ghost: A Commonplace Book
2016-2017
Jason Gray Platt, Playwright
Ye Bare and Ye Cubb
Ginger Strand, Non-Fiction Writer
Charlotte Cushman and her Circle
2015-2016
Leslie Smith, Book Artist, University of Iowa
Wonder and Curiosity: Broadside project