Actors Theatre of Louisville, the State Theatre of Kentucky, is the flagship arts organization in the Louisville community. For over four decades, Actors Theatre has been the home of the internationally acclaimed Humana Festival of New American Plays, which has introduced more than 450 plays into the American theatre repertoire and has showcased the work of more than 400 playwrights and ensembles. The Humana Festival is recognized as a crucial incubator for new work and a launchpad for myriad subsequent productions around the country and the world.

This year’s Humana Festival of New American Plays was groundbreaking. Inclusion was big this year, with virtually all the plays representing refreshingly nontraditional perspectives.

• Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-GreenbergEvocation to Visible Appearance by Mark Schultzwe, the invisibles by Susan Soon He StantonMarginal Loss by Deborah SteinGod Said This by Leah Nanako WinklerYou Across from Me by Jaclyn Backhaus, Dipika Guha,Brian Otaño, and Jason Gray Platt

Actors Theatre of Louisville, the State Theatre of Kentucky, is the flagship arts organization in the Louisville community. For over four decades, Actors Theatre has been the home of the internationally acclaimed Humana Festival of New American Plays, which has introduced more than 450 plays into the American theatre repertoire and has showcased the work of more than 400 playwrights and ensembles. The Humana Festival is recognized as a crucial incubator for new work and a launchpad for myriad subsequent productions around the country and the world.

This year’s Humana Festival of New American Plays was groundbreaking. Inclusion was big this year, with virtually all the plays representing refreshingly nontraditional perspectives.

• Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-GreenbergEvocation to Visible Appearance by Mark Schultzwe, the invisibles by Susan Soon He StantonMarginal Loss by Deborah SteinGod Said This by Leah Nanako WinklerYou Across from Me by Jaclyn Backhaus, Dipika Guha,Brian Otaño, and Jason Gray Platt

Actors Theatre of Louisville, the State Theatre of Kentucky, is the flagship arts organization in the Louisville community. For over four decades, Actors Theatre has been the home of the internationally acclaimed Humana Festival of New American Plays, which has introduced more than 450 plays into the American theatre repertoire and has showcased the work of more than 400 playwrights and ensembles. The Humana Festival is recognized as a crucial incubator for new work and a launchpad for myriad subsequent productions around the country and the world.

This year’s Humana Festival of New American Plays was groundbreaking. Inclusion was big this year, with virtually all the plays representing refreshingly nontraditional perspectives.

• Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-GreenbergEvocation to Visible Appearance by Mark Schultzwe, the invisibles by Susan Soon He StantonMarginal Loss by Deborah SteinGod Said This by Leah Nanako WinklerYou Across from Me by Jaclyn Backhaus, Dipika Guha,Brian Otaño, and Jason Gray Platt