2014-2015 Season

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 short play to share that experience with Louisville audiences in the form of UNCAGED/DESENJAULADAS, which we performed at the Slant Culture Theatre Festival at the Commonwealth Theatre Center. Shortly thereafter, we had our very first visit to Louisville from our colleagues of Colectivo Teatral Historias de Fe to Louisville, all the way from Guatemala! This landmark event in our Faith Stories Project was years in the making and was incredibly moving for all involved.  Along with visiting and working with LFL in Louisville, they also visited FSP participants in Virginia. This season, LFL also produced two scripted works, both with Kentucky roots. At Bellarmine University in March, we presented Arlene Hutton's AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, in which the religious community of 1830's Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, is changed when a non-believer has an ecstatic experience. We brought an excerpt to Shaker Village and performed it in the Shaker Meeting Hall there. We finished off the production season with a Theatre of the Absurd inspired exploration of gender, SIDEWINDERS, by queer Kentucky playwright Basil Kreimendahl. We rounded out the season nicely with a busy summer of Drama Camps. In particular, that summer saw the birth of GIRLSPEAK, an extended Drama Camp experience focused on Middle School and High School girls and young women.