As we all know, this was a rough year all around - and the arts and education sectors were particularly hard-hit. LFL was no exception, but they persevered. In addition to having to pivot on all their programming once the Covid pandemic hit, they had to adjust to the loss of 2 Co-Artistic Directors, with Kathi E.B. Ellis having passed away the previous summer and Trina Fischer preparing to move to Chile in January 2020 with her family. Though Trina would continue to work with LFL, as a company member and part-time staff, the Staff decided that it made the most sense for her to step down from her Co-Artistic Director role while living in Chile. The resilience, flexibility and steadfastness of existing and new company members made all the difference that season and the next, as they adapted to the realities of maintaining performing arts and arts education programming during a global pandemic.
They started the season celebrating the 10th Anniversary of CHOICES: an interactive play on cyberbullying and suicide, with a gala dinner and performance at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. They prepared to present a new play with music by long-time LFL collaborator Erin Fitzgerald, Good Grief, which was to open on March 19, 2020 at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, but had to be postponed. It was eventually transformed into a virtual performance in the following season. They also had to postpone their planned premiere of The Kentucky Suffrage Project, which they had planned to tour during 2020 to celbrate the centennial of women's suffrage in the USA. All of their educational and outreach programming, from local schools to trips to Guatemala for the Faith Stories Project, had to be put on hold. They were able to shift some of their after-school, in-school and summer programming into virtual models with the use of Zoom.