To honor LFL’s 5th Anniversary Season, we remounted and toured What My Hands Have Touched, including a run of the show at The Rudyard Kipling with a GALA celebration on opening night hosted by our Board of Directors. During the same period, LFL began the creation of Strangers/Extranjeras, the first bi-lingual production for the company, […]

During the summer of 2006, LFL once again returned to Guatemala to work with more women, an opportunity sponsored by Presbyterian Church funds. During this year a Board of Directors was recruited, creating an infrastructure for the company that remains strong to this day. Typh Hainer Merwath and Sara Canary joined the company during this […]

2006 saw the creation of LFL’s fourth original production, the one-woman Women Speak: IRAQ, created and performed by founder Shannon Woolley. In addition to its premiere, this production toured extensively to colleges and conferences for several years.

Continuing to reflect on the experiences of women who are important to the LFL company, Class of ’70 was created in 2004 and performed in both NYC and Louisville that year. Subsequently, starting in 2005, the company relocated from NYC to Louisville permanently.

Company member Jennifer Thalman Kepler returned from a year in Guatemala in 2004 and LFL created Faith Stories Project as an international outreach program to continue to explore the common themes of women’s experiences from two very different cultures: rural Guatemala and urban America. LFL artists traveled to Guatemala for the first time in the […]