Willa Ellafair Folmar

Willa Ellafair Folmar has been making plays for 25 years. Sometimes she’s in them, or creates things for them, or collaborates on ideas and shapes them into something tangible, or makes sure everyone stays alive and in good spirits. Willa has been an Ambassador for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a Dramaturgical Costume Assistant on Showtime/Fox21’s “Homeland”, and a teaching artist for Writers Without Margins. Since 2016, Folmar has worked extensively with Taylor Mac and Matt Ray on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music”, “Holiday Sauce” and as Associate Director of “The Hang”, traveling to The Melbourne Festival, Barbican Centre, Berliner Festspiele, The Grec Festival, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, The Curran Theatre San Francisco, Reykjavík Arts Festival, Bergen International Festival, and more.

With Pomegranate Arts, Folmar worked on projects with artists including Philip Glass and Bassem Youssef. She has collaborated on plays for Under the Radar and The Onassis Festival, among others. Folmar is the Co-Director of Looking Glass Arts, an artist-led creative retreat organisation in upstate New York democratising access to the space, time and natural beauty critical to artistic growth and practice.