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: November 18

The University of Louisville Theatre department has opened a production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at The Playhouse and runs through November 21 It is directed by Jennifer Pennington and engages with ideas about gender fluidity and non-binary identity in creative ways that follow Shakespeare’s text. Three of the cast members talked with us about their experience with the production.

Allie Firell is a playwright, actor, journalist, who has worked with or written about a good majority of arts groups and artists in the Louisville area. They are a candidate for an MFA from the University of Louisville Theatre Dept.

Sarah Chen Elston is an actor, director, and educator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in Theatre from both Point Park University and Guilford College.. Currently a candidate for an MFA from the University of Louisville Theatre Dept.

Jahii Bogard is an actor from Atlanta, Georgia. He studied theatre at Greensboro College and is currently a candidate for an MFA from the University of Louisville Theatre Dept.

Artebella On The Radio: January 28

Painter Brennen Cabrera & Spoken word/visual artist Lance Newman will be the guests on this week's show. Brennen is showing at Mellwood Art Center & Lance is part of the cast of Romeo & Juliet Louisville 2020 at Actors Theatre. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10:00 am to hear Keith Waits speak with artists.

Brennen Cabrera was born December 4th, 1996 in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a mixed media painter, mainly self-taught with little to no formal education or training. His work has been exhibited around the Louisville, KY area, as well as parts of California, New York, and Chicago, IL. His one-person show, “Windows”, will be at Mellwood Art & Entertainment Center’s Pigment Gallery February 5-28.

Lance Newman II, was raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a writer, poet, host, actor, performing, visual, and teaching artist. His experience is the culmination of a 16-year career performing around the country. As a playwright, he helped create plays such as the “Smoketown Poetry Opera,“ ”The Westend Poetry Opera” and “The Blood Always Returns.“ Under the name, SpreadLovEnterprise, he teaches his creative writing and public speaking curriculum in schools, community centers, and service-providing organizations. He co-hosts the largest and longest-running poetry slam in Louisville; created the public art “LITS Project” on 4th st; and has been featured in newspapers, commercials, and the feature film “Frathouse.” Better known as ‘Mr. SpreadLove,’ a local man of worldly talent.

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.