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2 unusual facts about Actors Theatre of Louisville


Actors Theatre of Louisville

The building that became Actors Theatre was a merging of two buildings: the 1837 James H. Dakin-designed Old Bank of Louisville (which is a National Historic Landmark) and the Myers-Thompson Display Building.

Lance Kinsey

He majored in drama and after college apprenticed at Actors Theatre of Louisville.


Barry Bingham, Jr.

He also was an active supporter of and fund-raiser for Actors Theatre of Louisville and Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.

Carolyn Gage

Natasha Askew" Visits a sex Therapist, because after a 3-month fling with various unavailable males, contracted a disease that gave her an abnormally large vagina, was presented at Actors Theatre of Louisville in the Juneteenth Festival of African American plays.

Jane Martin

Jane Martin is the pen-name of a playwright speculated to be former Actors Theatre of Louisville artistic director Jon Jory.


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Catherine Filloux

2006-1998 – Five-time Heideman Award Finalist (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Louisville, Kentucky

John Walch

Commissions include: Manhattan Theatre Club, where he was an Alfred P. Sloan playwriting fellow, The Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis, and Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Matthew Spangler

Matthew Spangler's plays have been produced by the San Jose Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Play House, San Diego Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse (staged reading), the Nottingham Playhouse, Liverpool Playhouse, Brighton Festival, the National Steinbeck Center, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Avignon Theatre Festival, in addition to other theatres and festivals.

Robert Montano

At Actors Theatre of Louisville, Robert portrayed Cal in East of Eden, directed by Jon Jory, later to be invited back by Mr. Jory to exercise his Shakespeare in The Comedy of Errors.