Our first mainstage production that year was Cheryl L. Davis' Carefully Taught, performed at The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage. This fascinating focuses on 2 close friends who teach at the same school, one Black and one White, whose friendship and lives are affected when racial issues are brought to light at their school, attracting both the media and politics to the crisis. It is a searing and clever analysis of racial biases, personal and systemic, and lays bare the insidious cost that these can have on friends and in professional relationships. In March, we premiered local playwright Diana Grisanti's Patron Saint of Losing Sleep, which explores issues of sexual harassment and domestic violence, at the Mex Theater at The Kentucky Center for the Arts. This dynamic feminist piece, written in an unconventional narrative style that mirrors the disruption of insomnia, follows the surreal chaos that ensues when interventions of a sleep-deprived call center rep snowball out of control. The season closed with an LFL original - We. Are. Here. at Bellarmine University's Black Box Theater at the Wyatt Center for the Arts, exploring the attitudes in our country that brought about such a divisive administration in 2017, and how families and individuals were affected by those attitudes.