WELCOME TO OUR 2017-2018 SEASON!

Welcome! Louisville Public Media Thank you so much for joining us for Looking for Lilith’s 2017-2018 season! At the beinning makes Louisville a of last season, we were deeply proud to celebrate 15 years of examining history and better place to live by questioning today from women’s perspectives. At the close of the season, we celebrated educating, connecting, with our remarkable UNHEARD [outloud] Festival. We have had quite a journey from that engaging, entertaining first season in New York City in 2001, and in our 15+ years we have accomplished much-- and informing the and learned even more. We enter this season with renewed vigor and commitment, looking community with three forward to the projects, productions, and programs yet to come! This season you will find distinct public radio us interrogating privilege in Cheryl L. Davis’ Carefully Taught, restlessly pursuing justice in stations, an investigative Diana Grisanti’s The Patron Saint of Losing Sleep, and daring to dream of progress in We. Are. 89.3 WFPL News | KyCIR unit and a free online Here., our newest devised work examining the current political moment. Just as importantly, 90.5 WUOL | 91.9 WFPK | Do502 calendar service. we continue to reach our community through education, exploration, and partnership-from our ongoing work with the Latina community, to our numerous projects that serve children and youth in our city, to our ongoing initiative to examine and resist the ways that white supremacy affects our world—and our work. Looking for Lilith is a bird with two wings--the Find out more at art we create on the stage, and the art we grow within our communities. These two wings LouisvillePublicMedia.org remain equally strong, keeping us flying straight and true. We are happy that you are joining us on the journey this season, and we hope to travel with you for many years to come!

Shannon Woolley Allison Kathi E.B. Ellis Trina Fischer Jennifer Thalman Kepler Co-Artistic Directors LFL’s 2017-2018 season productions and outreach are sponsored in part by The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Kentucky Arts Council, Eastern Area Community Ministries, Fund for the Arts ArtsMatch program funded by the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation, Louisville Metro External Agency Fund, Louisville Public Media and Video Kitchen. Behind the Scenes support made possible by Stockhoff’s Horseshoes and Supplies, Fauver Law Office, and Kentucky Select.

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports Looking for Lilith Theatre Company with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Looking for Lilith is a member of the following organizations:

Lifting Up Women’s Voices • Standing with the Unheard • Dismantling Racism through the Arts

3 ABOUT LOOKING FOR LILITH

Shannon Woolley Allison Co-Artistic Director | Artist Development Kathi E.B. Ellis Co-Artistic Director | Productions Looking for Lilith is an ensemble theatre company that creates productions and programming Trina Fischer by examining history and today’s world through women’s perspectives and lifting up unheard Co-Artistic Director | Sales & Promotions voices. LFL productions and programming serve adults, youth and children locally, nationally Jennifer Thalman Kepler and internationally. The work of Looking for Lilith is more important than ever and we Co-Artistic Director | Community Outreach recommit to our mission of examining history and today from women’s perspectives and lifting up unheard voices: MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT Holly Stone, Creative Director • We will continue to discover and reveal those stories that have been lost through time. Jill Marie Schierbaum, Asst. Creative Director • We will continue to seek out the unheard and lift up their experiences. Kathi E. B. Ellis, Trina Fischer, Regina Harris • We will continue to provide the next generation of women with strong role models. COMMUNITY OUTREACH COMMITTEE • We will continue to partner with women and youth of color at home and abroad. Jennifer Thalman Kepler, Chair • We will continue to collaborate with LGBTQ artists and colleagues. Shannon Woolley Allison, Kathi E. B. Ellis, • We will continue to honor the women who have served our country. Ebony Nolana Jordan • We will continue to speak out for justice and use our theatre skills to shape those COMPANY MEMBERS conversations. Shannon Woolley Allison (Founder), Dawn Schulz AS WOMEN we are called to stand with other communities who are called to seek justice. Campbell, Sara G.B. Canary, Lindsay Chamberlin, Kathi E. B. Ellis, Laura Ellis, Trina Fischer (Founder), AS ARTISTS we are called to “hold the mirror up to nature.” Regina Harris, Ebony Jordan, Jennifer Thalman Kepler AS ACTIVISTS we are called to the hard work of social justice for all. (Founder), Jill Marie Schierbaum, Karole Spangler, Holly Stone, Kelly McNerney (Emerita), Typh Hainer Looking for Lilith more than ever stands with the unheard. Merwarth (Emerita) LFL is on the touring rosters of the Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Center for the Arts and BOARD OF DIRECTORS Alternate ROOTS. They are members of GLI’s Arts and Cultural Alliance, Kentucky Theatre Association, Jennifer Thalman Kepler, Chair The American Alliance for Theatre and Education, Alternate ROOTS and the Network of Ensemble Shannon Woolley Allison, Secretary Theatres. LFL received the 2010 Karen Willis Award from the Kentucky Theatre Association for artistic Trina Fischer, Board Member excellence and commitment to changing Kentucky through theatre. LFL was also recognized for two Rebecca Nicole Grant, Board Member Aria Bailey, Board Member Emerita consecutive years by the International Center for Women’s Playwrights with their 50/50 Award for Jomaris DeJesus, Board Member Emerita commitment to producing women playwrights. LFL’s original devised script, Prevailing Winds, was the Paula McGuffey, Board Member Emerita recipient of the 2016 Arts-Louisville/Broadway World Awards for Best Full Length Play. Attica Scott, Board Member Emerita 5 PRODUCTION HISTORY PRODUCTION HISTORY

2001-2002 2011-2012 Crossing Mountains: To Teach All We Can and The House of Bernada Alba by Federico García Lorca, To Learn All We Can* by LFL (Premiere) adapted by Emily Mann Beyond the Blue Mountains, a theatrical adaptation 2002-2003 of Jane Joyce’s book of poetry What My Hands Have Touched: U.S. Women in World War II* Looking Forward, Looking Back (10th Anniversary Festival); by LFL (Premiere) 10 Years, 7 Stories; Becoming Mothers (Staged Reading) by LFL

2003-2004 2012-2013 Staged Reading Series: Voices by Susan Griffin & Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Keely and Du by Jane Martin Alice in Black and White by Robin Rice (World Premiere) Becoming Mothers by LFL (Premiere) 2004-2005 2013-2014 Class of ‘70 by LFL (Premiere) Class of ‘70 by LFL (Remount) CHOICES, by LFL (Remount), Slant Culture Theatre Festival 2005-2006 Luz by Catherine Filloux (Regional Premiere) Women Speak: IRAQ* by LFL (Premiere) Body Awareness by Annie Baker (Regional Premiere) 2006-2007 2014-2015 What My Hands Have Touched by LFL UnCaged/Desenjauladas by LFL (Premiere), Slant Culture (Remount, 5th Anniversary Production) Theatre Festival As It Is In Heaven by Arlene Hutton 2007-2008 Sidewinders by Basil Kreimendahl (Regional Premiere) Staged Readings of original LFL plays; Fabric, Flames & Fervor: Girls of the Triangle 2015-2016 Strangers/Extranjeras Prevailing Winds by LFL (Premiere) Virginia Woolf’s Orlando adapted by Sarah Ruhl 2008-2009 Getting Out by Marsha Norman Women of Will, Shakespeare texts adapted by Kathi E.B. Ellis Alice in Black & White by Robin Rice (NYC Premiere) Fabric, Flames and Fervor* by LFL (Premiere) 2016-2017 Strangers/Extranjeras* by LFL (Premiere) Legacy of Light by Karen Zacarías Alice in Black and White (Remount) by Robin Rice 2009-2010 UNHEARD [outloud] (15th Anniversary Festival) Crossing Mountains by LFL (Remount) • Crossing Mountains by LFL (Remount) CHOICES: An Interactive Play on Cyberbullying and Suicide* • “I’m Wearing My Own Clothes!” by NancyGall-Clayton (Premiere) by LFL (Premiere) • Defining Infinity by LFL (Premiere) Guest Productions 2010-2011 • Lost & Found, Adanma Onyedike Barton Fabric, Flames and Fervor by LFL (Remount & NYC Premiere) • Still I Rise!, Pandora Productions Hunting the Basilisk by J. Shafer • Look Me in the Eye, Resonant Light Theatre Project Failure is Impossible by Rosemary H. Knower

*These productions have toured various times since their creation.

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CAREFULLY TAUGHT by Cheryl L. Davis Directed by Kathi E.B. Ellis The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage 1701 W Muhammad Ali Blvd, Louisville, KY OCT 26, 27, 28, 30*, NOV 2, 3, 4 | 7:30 pm NOV 4 | 2:00 pm With a clever riff on the ballad “You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught” from “South Pacific”, Cheryl L. Davis’ fascinating Carefully Taught focuses on an African American and a White schoolteacher 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. This play is intriguing and ingenious, with many moments of humor, as it courageously explores these deeply intractable issues. As the playwright says, “This provocative tale challenges us to examine our perceptions of race in contemporary culture.” THE PATRON SAINT OF LOSING SLEEP by Diana Grisanti Directed by Shannon Woolley Allison The MeX Theater at The Kentucky Center 501 W. Main Street, Louisville, KY MAR 15, 16, 17, 19*, 22, 23, 24 | 7:30 pm MAR 24 | 2:00 pm LFL’s 2018 Women’s History Month Production will be The Patron Saint of Losing Sleep, by Louisville playwright Diana Grisanti. Previously produced in Charlotte and Nashville, LFL’s production marks Patron Saint’s Louisville debut, although audiences will be familiar with Grisanti’s work with Actors Theatre of Louisville and Theatre [502]. Written in an unconventional narrative style that mirrors the disruption of insomnia, the play follows the actions of a sleep-deprived call center rep whose well- meaning interventions in the lives of clients and others snowball out of control.

WE. ARE. HERE. A Newly-Devised LFL Original Devising Director: Jennifer Thalman Kepler The MeX Theater at The Kentucky Center Advertise 501 W. Main Street, Louisville, KY YOUR BUSINESS JUN 14, 15, 16, 18*, 21, 22, 23 | 7:30 pm JUN 23 | 2:00 pm with The culmination of the season will be a brand new LFL original production, We. Are. Here. which will Looking for Lilith! explore our community’s responses to the political and social turmoil that has succeeded the 2016 election. As with many of LFL’s original works, this piece will begin with collecting stories from For more info: many perspectives about issues such as immigration, women’s rights, the environment, education Trina Fischer and more. Using LFL’s well-honed devising skills, these stories will become the building blocks of the 502.638.2559 or collaborative play-making process. [email protected]. 9 COMMUNITY OUTREACH SUMMER DRAMA CAMPS

Looking for Lilith has a strong commitment to education and our community. In our outreach programs we guide participants in dramatic play, devising, and theatrically sharing their discoveries in a way that gives voice to members of our society who have historically been underrepresented. Through these programs as well as our productions, we help show the value of multiple perspectives on history and today. Last season we began a specific initiative that examines the role of the arts & artists in dismantling racism in individuals, organizations and our community. For more information, visit lookingforlilith.org or call 502.638.2559.

TOURING PRODUCTIONS LFL offers several of our original plays for touring, including CHOICES, our award-winning interactive play on cyberbullying and suicide. Performances available AGES 4-7 for middle school, high school and adults. Contact us to Campers embody characters and explore an imaginary world using creative play, drama, movement, bring one of our shows to your school, library or other and visual art. LFL camps offer young campers the opportunity to develop important social skills in venue! a fun, creative and age appropriate way. Possible social skills may include: anger management and conflict resolution, bullying, how unfair and hurtful it is to discriminate against others. AFTER-SCHOOL DRAMA AGES 7-10 | PLAY-BUILDING Currently serving Louisville-area elementary schools. Campers will work together to adapt a folktale into a play that is shared on the last day of camp. K-2 students participate in story drama, exploring folk Campers have fun while building characters, creating scenes, working in small groups and designing simple costumes and set. tales and other children’s stories from around the world. Grades 3-5 learn the basics of improvisation, creating a AGES 9-14 | GIRLSPEAK character, and working with scene partners. Young women telling their stories their way! What is important to your daughter? What makes her excited or upset? LFL Teaching Artists will facilitate a one-week workshop using the devising techniques used in creating LFL’s professional productions working with participants to craft a play SUMMER DRAMA CAMPS that explores ideas, issues and themes that are significant to your daughter. Don’t miss out on this A gentle introduction to theatre and drama, empowering program that culminates in a presentation of participants’ creativity. incorporating life skills, teamwork, imagination building and social justice themes in a fun and supportive Stay Tuned! Specific themes and dates will be posted on our website in January! environment. Camps available for Pre-K through middle LOOKINGFORLILITH.ORG/SUMMERDRAMA school, including GirlSpeak, a program empowering middle school girls to tell their stories their way.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LFL collaborates with local, national and international partners to create spaces where participants theatrically unpack social issues and their personal experiences. Partners include: Adelante Hispanic Achievers, Eastern Area Community Ministries, Lousville Showing Up For Racial Justice (LSURJ), Historias de Fe Guatemala.

10 11 TOURING PRODUCTIONS RACIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE

LFL is actively addressing the topic of racial (in)justice and the intersection of race and gender within our own company, the commonwealth, and the nation. We believe this is timely, radical, and urgent as we strive to bring our best selves as feminist artists to the struggle for equity and solidarity, while simultaneously examining the unintentional mis-steps of white allies who are unaware of how their own privilege plays out in words and behavior. Through addressing this topic, we intend to offer ourselves as instruments in the larger ongoing struggles around racial (in)justice in Louisville in the following ways: • Exploring how privilege is manifest in the LFL community (company members, board and other artists within our extended family, including artists of color). • Inciting deep reflection on Cheryl L. Davis’ timely, provocative play Carefully Taught, as artists and audience members together confront our attitudes and assumptions about race. • Building relationships with partners who are already doing this work in our community. Looking for Lilith offers several of our original plays for touring. We are able to customize • Applying feedback and lessons learned from our accountability partners (Louisville Showing performances to your needs. Contact Trina Fischer at 502.638.2559 or Up for Racial Justice, Alternate ROOTS, Adelante Hispanic Acheivers, and West Jefferson County [email protected] to book your performance. Community Task Force) to all of our educational programing. Class of ‘70 • Creating and facilitating theatre-based workshops and residencies where space is made for Defining Infinity meaningful and honest sharing about the participants’ personal experiences around, race, Fabric, Flames, and Fervor: Girls of the Triangle Prevailing Winds gender and class. Strangers/Extranjeras What My Hands Have Touched: US Women in WWII Women Speak: IRAQ Women of Will LFL’s Racial Justice Initiative, an ongoing examination of racial dynamics within our community, is being funded in part by a Partners in Action grant from Alternate ROOTS, a grant program which receives funding from The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the Surdna Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In this award-winning interactive theatre experience, students have the opportunity to stop the action and provide ideas to Hannah, a victim of cyberbulling, who has been pushed to a point of isolation and depression so deep that she sees no other solution but taking her own life. The students are empowered to provide alternative options that can change the tragic outcome for her, practicing how they might handle the situation if they were being bullied, and rehearsing strategies that could help change Hannah’s story.

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