Mission Statement:
Looking for Lilith is an ensemble theatre company that creates productions and programming through re-examining history and questioning today from women’s perspectives, a practice that frequently uncovers unheard voices.
LFL productions and programming serve adults, youth and children locally, nationally and internationally.
Commitment to Justice:
Looking for Lilith Theatre Company
condemns racism and oppression in all its forms.
We stand in solidarity with all those working for justice.
We commit to use our skills as artists
to hear, see and amplify the unheard voices among us.
Significant accomplishments of our 24th Season (September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025)
- We engaged 1,229 adults and 902 youth in in-person, interactive theatre experiences
- More than 50% of our programmatic activity was educational, and served individuals identified as
- Individuals with Disabilities
- Individuals below the Poverty Line
- Individuals with Limited English Proficiency
- Youth at Risk
- We contracted over 70 artists as performers, directors, designers, and teaching artists
The work of these artists enabled us to execute a robust and dynamic season of programming, as evidenced below.
Community Outreach work:
*We conducted over 40 weeks of after school programming in 10 elementary and middle schools in Metro Louisville, with unlimited scholarship funding available, and over 50% of students attending at no cost. In this after school drama instruction, elementary students learned the essential theatre skills of cooperation, concentration, and collaboration, and middle school youth were led by our highly trained teaching artists in discerning a topic of import to them and devising an original play based on that topic.
*In our summer programming, we led 4 weeks of full day summer camps. 50% of these camps were held through the city’s HeARTS program, at the Highview Arts Center in Louisville's South End, and were free for participants. Additional camps were held in St. Matthews, and Crescent Hill. All 4 camps were centered on leading the students to collaboratively create a play, and these plays enjoyed public performances. We conducted in-school residencies and performances in schools both inside and outside of Jefferson County, with interactive programming including "Monsters Under the Bed," which uses drama to help students cope with daily anxieties, and "Even Puppets Have Problems," which helps students to identify bullying behavior and practice self-advocacy. We engaged adults in our community with our Ancestors Project, an ongoing series in which diverse communities are invited to bring a photograph and story of an ancestor to an interactive workshop where they are guided in creating a visual art, performance art, and literary piece based on their ancestors' stories. This project also enjoyed a public culminating event at the Main Public Library, in which actors led audience on an interactive journey sharing stories from previous Ancestors’ workshops, while audience also shared their own ancestral stories.
We also served adults internationally with our Historias de Fe partnership with our sister ensemble in Guatemala, with whom we have been working for 20 years. These mostly indigenous women have trained with the Looking for Lilith professional ensemble to create short performances about problems affecting Guatemalan women, which they share with their rural communities. This season, were able to visit the remote community of Santiaguito, the home of long-time Historias de Fe artist, Petrona Tiul Yat. We supported Petrona in the theatre work she has been doing with youth in her community, and the HdF ensemble created and performed two new performance pieces.
In March, we produced the world premiere of company member Clarity Hagan’s Just Cause: The Story of the Lexington Six. Based on true KY history, this piece allowed audiences to experience the true story of bank robbers, FBI Agents, and six young people who made Queer Kentucky history.Directed by Vidalia Unwin, the piece featured the work of 6 LFL ensemble members and several other artists, and enjoyed sold out performances.
Our 24th season culminated with a 10-week production of Rachel Bublitz’ The Book Women, an original play telling the stories of the Packhorse Librarians of the Appalachian mountains of KY during the Great Depression. Produced in partnership with the Louisville Free Public Library and the Cultural Pass, this play brought together our professional ensemble and our student actors onstage together for the first time. The piece toured library branches throughout Metro Louisville in three segments, and then culminated with a standing room only performance of the full play at the Main Public Library.
2023-2024 Board of Directors/Staff, with Demographics
