This year, we began a collaboration with the Latina Women’s group of Eastern Area Community Ministries. LFL bilingual teaching artists met monthly with the group to use applied theatre to explore personal experiences and challenges participants faced as immigrant women. They created scenes to share amongst themselves, even presenting them at their holiday parties a […]
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2003-2004 Season
After a spring and summer full of performances of WHAT MY HANDS HAVE TOUCHED, we got to work on our next play – CLASS OF ’70. We spent most of the season researching and devising our 3rd play, and in spring of 2004, we had a Staged Reading in NYC with our amazing devising ensemble. […]
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For our 8th season, we produced 3 mainstage productions for the first time – WOMEN OF WILL, FABRIC FLAMES AND FERVOR: GIRLS OF THE TRIANGLE and STRANGERS/EXTRANJERAS – and started creating the new play CHOICES: AN INTERACTIVE PLAY ON CYBERBULLYING AND SUICIDE. We also continued to expand all our Community and Educational Outreach, including the […]
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This season was full of new works! We presented readings of 2 new LFL originals: FABRIC, FLAMES, AND FERVOR: Girls of the Triangle, which was based on the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 and the labor rights movement it galvanized, and STRANGERS/EXTRANJERAS, which was based on the experiences of YAVs (Young Adult Volunteers) […]
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This was a season of transition, during which we began the move back to Louisville, KY from Brooklyn, New York. Shannon Woolley Allison and fellow company and staff member Kelly McNerney spent much of the season researching and creating the one-woman show, WOMEN SPEAK:IRAQ. During this season, an excerpt of this work-in-progress was performed at […]
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