In 2008, LFL ventured into new territory, embracing an already-created text as a mainstage production. Women of Will is a compilation of Shakespearean scenes featuring his female characters. LFL also presented a readings of their newest original works Fabric, Flames, and Fervor: Girls of The Triangle and Strangers/Extranjeras. The Faith Stories Project presented its first […]
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LFL turns 5!
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, […]
Continue readingGrowing Communities
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. More company members joined LFL, and LFL became a founding member […]
Continue readingWomen Speak: IRAQ
Created in 2006 by Kelly McNerney and Shannon Woolley Allison, this dynamic one woman show shines a light on various women’s firsthand experiences of the 2nd Gulf War–from service women, to peace activists, to Iraqi women. In Women Speak: IRAQ, Shannon toggled quickly between the 12 characters, looking at a complex moment in our shared […]
Continue readingClass of ’70
Continuing to reflect on the experiences of women who are important to the LFL company, Class of ’70 was created in 2004, through interviews with their mother, aunts aunts and friends that went to college in the late 1960’s, as well as published material about the era. It explored what it was like to be […]
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