HI ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE FAMILY!

Hi Actors Theatre of Louisville Family!

Thank you for joining us in this moment—for flipping this page, for clicking on a link, for streaming a project, for joining in a live chat. Thank you for partnering with us on our first virtual season!

I look back at the past ten months with awe. Months filled with transition, with unrest, with grief, with learning, with innovation, with confusion, with protest, and with a collective need for transformation.

Actors Theatre of Louisville’s ongoing learning and revising has kept us connected with you and thousands of people online. It has created an urgency around how we program while listening and building alignment with what’s happening here in Louisville. It has expanded creative explorations that previously would have unfolded in one rehearsal room into dozens of homes.

We have continued to support and collaborate with artists throughout our state and all over the country, through work ranging from our original musician series, Louisville Sessions, to live Facebook events like OKOLONA HABLA (okolona speaks), to the open process for Ali Summit as it’s being developed. We have even held a virtual field trip for a school in the Bronx to experience Where Did We Sit on the Bus?!

So as we move through the winter and the weather is growing colder, the pandemic continues, and our city is still in need of justice, we will continue to connect with you and share work that upholds all of our continued transformation and resiliency.

Humbly facing the unknown with you. -- Emily.

Emily Tarquin (they/them)

Artistic Producer & Employee Advocate

Actors Theatre of Louisville

Casting Director, CSA

Photo Credit: Selfie, at home, behind-the-screens of our Romeo & Juliet: Louisville 2020 remote capture.

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