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 […]
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Class of ’70
Continuing to reflect on the experiences of women who are important to us, CLASS OF ’70 was created in 2004. Similar to our previous shows, it was based on interviews with our mothers, aunts and friends that went to college in the late 1960s, as well as published material about the era. It explored what […]
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Company member Jennifer Thalman Kepler returned from a year in Guatemala in 2004 and we started work piloting and creating the 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. 4 LFL artists traveled to Guatemala […]
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2003 saw the creation and premiere of our second original production, WHAT MY HANDS HAVE TOUCHED, which premiered in NYC shortly after the U.S. invaded Iraq for the second time in a generation. As we performed a play about women’s contributions to the war effort during World War II, we were watching a very different […]
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2001-2002 Season – Crossing Mountains
Our first production was CROSSING MOUNTAINS: to teach all we can and to learn all we can, exploring 100 years of education and change in the Kentucky mountains at The Hindman Settlement School. From its birth as a settlement school founded by Katherine Pettit and May Stone (upon invitation by the Troublesome Creek resident Uncle […]
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