This seasons kicked off with a new short LFL one act – UNCAGED/DESENJAULADAS, and also included Arlene Hutton’s AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, Basil Kreimendahl’s SIDEWINDERS, and the birth of a new Educational and Community Outreach program – GIRLSPEAK. After years of working with our Guatemalan sisters through the Faith Stories Project, we created a […]
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GirlSpeak Program
We at LFL were moved by the research that showed that middle school is a time when the self-esteem of girls tends to plummet. In response, we created GirlSpeak, a program dedicated to lifting up the voices of young girls and women, at a time when they might feel like few around them value their […]
Continue readingLooking Forward, Looking Back – Celebrating 10 years!
Our final production of the season was a unique repertory program to celebrate LFL’s tenth anniversary: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK. The centerpiece of this event was TEN YEARS.SEVEN STORIES, which featured short vignettes of each of the first seven original productions created by LFL. Also at this event, LFL’s newest original script, BECOMING MOTHERS, was […]
Continue reading2009-2010 Season
For our 9th season, we brought our new play CHOICES and a remount of CROSSING MOUNTAINS to regional audiences, and went back to Guatemala with our FAITH STORIES PROJECT. We started the season with the premiere of our ambitious timely new touring show CHOICES: AN INTERACTIVE PLAY ON CYBERBULLLYING AND SUICIDE. This season, we also […]
Continue readingStrangers / Extranjeras
STRANGERS/EXTRANJERAS is a bilingual play about an inspiring friendship between a young optimistic U.S. volunteer and her generous Mayan Guatemalan host-mother. We premiered this new play at The Rudyard Kipling in spring of 2009. It was based on the experiences of Co-Artistic Director Jennifer Thalman-Kepler and company member Charity Thompson Egland, who met while volunteering […]
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