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In our last installment of this year’s coverage of the 34th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays hosted by Actors Theatre of Louisville, we have interviews with playwrights:   Scott Organ (Phoenix) and Deborah Zoe Laufer (Sirens)

Deep Fried Theatre:

• Phoenix by Scott Organ

Trey Lyford, Suli Holum. Photo by Harlan Taylor

Suli Holum, Trey Lyford. Photos by Harlan Taylor

Check out more on Phoenix by going to Actors Theatre of Louisville’s YouTube here.

• Sirens by Deborah Zoe Laufer

Brian Russell and Mimi Lieber. Photo by Harlan Taylor

Lindsey Wochley and Brian Russell. Photo by Harlan Taylor

Mimi Lieber and Ben Hollandsworth. Photo by Harlan Taylor

Mimi Lieber and Brian Russell. Photo by Harlan Taylor

Check out more on Sirens by going over to the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s YouTube page here and here.

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Our second installment of coverage of the 34th Humana Festival of New American Plays hosted by Actors Theatre of Louisville features an interview with the playwrights of Fissures (lost and found) (Steve Epp, Cory Hinkle, Dominic Orlando, Dominique Serrand, Deborah Stein and Victoria Stewart).  With a follow up interview with Deborah Stein, playwright of Heist! which was the Acting/Intern companies showcase production this year.

Deep Fried Theatre:

Fissures (Lost And Found)

Casey Grieg. Photo by Harlan Taylor

Casey Grieg, Emily Gunyou Halaas,Dominique Serrand, Megan Hill. Photo by Harlan Taylor

Dominique Serrand. Photo by Harlan Taylor

Dominique Serrand, Emily Gunyou Halaas, Nathan Keepers, Megan Hill. Photo by Harlan Taylor

Check more on Fissures (lost and found) on Actors Theatre of Louisville’s YouTube channel here and here.

Heist!

by Deborah Stein

Courtney Moors. Photos by Frankie Steel

David Darrow and Kara Davidson. Photos by Frankie Steel

Gwen Ellis and Brett Robinson. Photo by Frankie Steel

Matthew Whitfield and Kara Davidson. Photo by Frankie Steel

Robbie Tann. Photo by Frankie Steel

Check out more on Heist! on Actors Theatre of Louisville’s YouTube channel here.

If you are ever in Louisville, then 21c is worth  a look.  A very fun place!

Tell us what you think about these shows by calling 615-866-1282 or by sending us an e-mail (podcast@inexplicabledumbshow.com)

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This is the first installment of our yearly coverage of the 34th Humana Festival of New American Plays hosted by Actors Theatre of Louisville.  Up first, we have our annual State of  the Actors Theatre of Louisville interview with Marc Masterson (Artistic Director).  We also interview Lisa Dillman who is the playwright of Ground which Marc Masterson directed.

Deep Fried Theatre:

Marc Masterson

Lisa Dillman

Ground by Lisa Dillman and directed by Marc Masterson

(Jennifer Engstrom, Ricardo Guiterrez.  Photo by Harlan Taylor)

(Dale Rivera, Jennifer Engstrom. Photo by Harlan Taylor)

(Sandra Delgado, Lisa Fernandez. Photo by Harlan Taylor)

(Jennifer Engstrom, Rob Riley. Photo by Harlan Taylor)

See a video of Ground on Actors Theatre of  Louisville’s YouTube channel here.

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This is the last installment of our coverage of The 33rd Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays hosted by Actors Theatre of Louisville.  That being said, this week we have interviews with playwright Charles L. Mee who wrote “Under Construction” and  Director of New Play Development, Adrien-Alice Hansel, who was a co-adaptor for  “Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry”.

Under Construction
by Charles L. Mee

directed by Anne Bogart
created and performed by
SITI Company

Wild Blessings:
A Celebration
of Wendell Berry
adapted for the stage
by Marc Masterson
and Adrien-Alice Hansel
from the writing of Wendell Berry

directed by Marc Masterson

(photo by Harlan Taylor)

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This week we have an interview with playwright  Allison Moore about her play “Slasher” and we have an interview with one of the actors from the production, Lusia Strus, who played Frances McKinney.  Lusia also works with the Neo-Futurists in New York and Chicago.  As always we would love to thank the Actors Theatre of Louisville for being wonderful hosts!

Slasher:

Slasher
by Allison Moore

directed by Josh Hecht

(photo by Harlan Taylor)

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Week 3 of our Humana Festival coverage. It’s Apprentice Week here at the Inexplicable Dumb Show!

our young apprentice, Darth...er...David Bennett

Kristoffer Diaz

Kristoffer Diaz, one of the writers of Brink!; this year’s Acting Apprentice Company showcase.  Thanks, as always, to Kyle and everyone at the Actors Theatre of Louisville!

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This week from the 33rd Annual Humana Festival of  New American Plays hosted by Actors Theatre of Louisville we have interviews with Zoe Kazan, playwright of “Absalom” and Universes, creators of “Ameriville”.

Absalom

by Zoe Kazan

directed by Giovanna Sardelli

(Photo by  Harlan Taylor)

Ameriville

by UNIVERSES
(Gamal Abdel Chasten,
Mildred Ruiz,
William Ruiz aka Ninja and Steven Sapp)
directed by Chay Yew

(Photo by Harlan Taylor)

Charles Isherwood’s Review of Humana.

Proof we were there:

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This is the first installment of our coverage of the 33rd Humana Festival of New American Plays hosted by Actors Theatre of Louisville. Tee and I plus Young David the intern would like to express our gratitude to Actors Theatre of Louisville for the hospitality and thanks to all that stopped by to chat with us.  Up this week…Marc Masterson and Anne Bogart.

Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry

adapted for the stage
by Marc Masterson
and Adrien-Alice Hansel
from the writing of Wendell Berry

directed by Marc Masterson

part of the Brown-Forman Mainstage Series

Under Construction:

(photo by Harlan Taylor)

by Charles L. Mee

directed by Anne Bogart
created and performed by

SITI Company

Anne’s Blog

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This is our fifth installment of the 32nd Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays presented by the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. On deck this week, we have interviews with one of the 10 minute playwrights, Michael Lew (In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes but Only One True Love) and the vast majority of the playwrights of the Apprentice Company showcase anthology (Game On).

Here’s today’s lineup (Game On):

• Daryl Watson (Batting Lead Off)
• Zakiyyah Alexander

• Rolin Jones (DNP) a late scratch

• Marisa Wegrzyn

• Jon Spurney

• Alice Tuan

• Ken Weitzman

10 Minute Play (In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes but Only One True Love):

• Michael Lew

Missed anything Humana 08? Find it here:

• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three
• Part Four

Hey…tell us what you thought about our coverage of this year’s Humana Festival by calling us 615-866-1282 or by e-mail!