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ABOUT ACTORS THEATRE
Actors Theatre of Louisville, the State Theatre of Kentucky, is internationally acclaimed as one of America’s most consistently innovative non-profit professional theatre companies. Founded in 1964, it has won a host of coveted awards and worldwide recognition for excellence. For over 30 years it has been a major force in revitalizing American playwriting, with over 300 Actors-debuted scripts now in publication.
These premieres include three Pulitzer Prize winners — The Gin Game by D. L. Coburn, Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley and Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies — as well as Pultizer Prize nominee Omnium-Gatherum by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros and Theresa Rebeck, The Civilians’ This Beautiful City, Pure Confidence by Carlyle Brown and Theresa Rebeck’s The Scene. Actors Theatre has received the prestigious Margo Jones Award, Shubert Foundation's James N. Vaughan Memorial Award, and 1980 Tony Award for distinguished achievement.
OUR VISION
Purpose
Bring people together through live theatre to celebrate, challenge and explore who we are.
Values
For Actors Theatre of Louisville and its organization, audience and community, we value: Creativity, Collaboration and the Human Experience.
Vision
We bring astonishing experiences to our local, national and international audiences, who cannot imagine Louisville without Actors Theatre. In five years, Actors has crafted a sustainable and artistically nurturing producing model that leads the nation's regional theatres by example.
"The Tony-winning Actors Theatre would appear on most people's list
of the best American regional theatres."
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Variety
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