Artists Talk with LVA: December 28, 2023

Kentucky Shakespeare opens Kate Hamill's adaptation of Sense & Sensibility on January 6 and director Amy Attaway was live in the studio this week to tell us all about it. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Amy Attaway has been the Associate Artistic Director of Kentucky Shakespeare since 2016, after several summers directing with the company. She also serves as director/facilitator of Kentucky Shakespeare’s Shakespeare with Veterans.

Before that Amy was a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director for 10 years of Theatre [502], a Louisville company dedicated to recent and relevant theatre, and she spent five seasons as Associate Director of the Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Amy is a graduate of the University of Evansville and lives in Louisville with her fantastic husband and daughter and a growing menagerie of rescued pets.

Artebella On The Radio: March 25

The 2021 Arts-Louisville Theatre Awards will live stream this March 25, and as a part of this year's special edition, Angelica Santiago & Crystian Wiltshire talk about being BIPOC actors working out of Louisville. Join us this Thursday on WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com at 10 am.

Angelica Santiago, a multicultural chica born and raised Jersey native, is an actress telling the stories that need to be told. Having graduated from Montclair State University with her BFA in acting she uses the skills towards her craft to connect with people around the world and dive into her work in an even more personal way. Angelica's passion for acting comes from her desire to inspire audiences from all over and allow them to be affected by the stories of people that must share what they have to say. She was apart of the 2018-19 Actors Theatre of Louisville Acting Apprenticeship and has continued to work off and on in Louisville for Actors Theatre, Kentucky Shakespeare, and the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati.

Crystian Wiltshire is originally from Brooklyn, New York but is an alumnus of the African American Theatre Program at the University of Louisville Department of Theatre Arts. He has worked with Stage One Family Theatre, Kentucky Shakespeare, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati.

Artebella On The Radio: October 15

Brian Hinds plays the title character and Jennifer Pennington Lady M in the new Kentucky Shakespeare drive-in production of Macbeth that runs through October 31. They are also both teachers so they came in to talk about the first live theatre with an audience since March and how teaching online or in a hybrid model is working right now. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on ARTXFM.com this and every Thursday at 10 am to hear Keith Waits speak with artists on LVA's Artebella on the Radio.

Originally from Maine, Brian Hinds spent ten years with The Children's Theatre of Maine where he served as an actor, instructor, and director. He was also a member of Mad Horse Theater Company. Since moving to Louisville Brian has worked as an outreach artist with Kentucky Shakespeare before joining the faculty at YPAS (Youth Performing Arts School). He is also a member of the Louisville Improvisors and has worked as an actor and director with several local companies, including Kentucky Shakespeare, Savage Rose Classical Theatre Company and The Liminal Playhouse.

Jennifer Pennington is currently Manager of Student and Alumni Engagement at Commonwealth Theatre Center. She holds a BFA in Acting from University of Michigan and an MFA in Theatre from the University of Tennessee’s International Actor Training Academy. In Scotland she studied Voice/Speech with Kristin Linklater and Louis Colaianni. Jen, having transplanted from Los Angeles, has worked with companies all over the country including: South Coast Rep., P.S.Arts, EastLA Classic Theatre, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Michigan Theatre Festival, Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, Tennessee’s Clarence Brown Theatre, Arizona Shakespeare Festival and many local companies. Currently, Jen is an actor with The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, serves on the board for PAL Coalition (Federal Drug Free Communities Support Grant) and is a member of VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association.)

Artebella On The Radio: September 3

Amy Attaway, Matt Wallace, & Aaron Bibelhauser came to talk about Kentucky Shakespeare's fall events: As You Like It broadcasting on KET, the release of Aaron's new CD of songs from that production, and the company's online 60th Anniversary Celebration. Tune in Thursday morning at 10:00 am on WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com to hear LVA's Artebella On The Radio.

Matt Wallace has served as Producing Artistic Director of Kentucky Shakespeare since August 2013, directing productions of As You Like It, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, and Richard III. Acting credits with the company include the Player and Guildenstern in productions of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, Orlando in As You Like It, Dumaine in Love’s Labor’s Lost, and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Amy Attaway joined Kentucky Shakespeare as Associate Artistic Director in 2016, after several summers directing with the company. She’s directed Henry IV Part One and Part Two, Richard II, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, and Henry V,  as well as Shakespeare in the Parks tours of Macbeth and Midsummer Night’s Dream and the indoor collaborations with Louisville Public Media, The War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead. She was also a co-founder of Theatre [502].

Aaron Bibelhauser is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and vintage bluegrass music enthusiast from Louisville, KY. In addition to writing songs recorded by award-winning bluegrass artists including Del McCoury Band, Balsam Range, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Dale Ann Bradley, and The Wooks, he’s taken first place in the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at Merlefest and earned a nomination for the IBMA’s prestigious Song Of The Year Award.

Artebella on The Radio: January 2, 2020

Katherine Martin

Jack Wallen

None of these talented thespians will be there, but the man who created these images, photographer Bill Brymer, was Keith's first guest of 2020 talking about his current exhibit at Kore Gallery. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on ARTXFM.COM every Thursday at 10:00am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

INSPIRED LOUISVILLE: ACTORS is a photography exhibition in celebration of Louisville’s theatrical community. The show opens at Louisville’s KORE Gallery (942 E. Kentucky Street, Louisville, KY 40204) January 2 and runs through February 2, 2020. Photographer Bill Brymer asked 40 local actors and artistic directors to sit for portraits in either the role that most inspired them to become actors, or in the role they’d most like to play some day. The actors also provided brief commentary illuminating their choices.

Meg Caudill

There will be an Artist’s Reception at KORE Gallery Saturday, January 4, from 6:00-8:30 pm.

Bill Brymer has been photographing local performing arts groups since 2009: his photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Courier-Journal, American Theatre, Opera News, LEO Weekly, Arts-Louisville and elsewhere. Bill lives in Louisville, KY with his wife Sarah and daughter Ruby.