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Humana Festival 2013: The Complete Plays brings together all nine scripts from the 2013 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 37th cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This unique compilation features an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in the American theatre, from a young woman's questioning of the spiritual identity she forged growing up in an ashram (O Guru Guru Guru), to a contemporary reimagining of Ibsen's cautionary tale, Peer Gynt (Gnit), to a group of estranged siblings who uncover disturbing family history while cleaning out their dead father's Arkansas plantation (Appropriate). This inventive and diverse collection of plays is a must-have for anyone seeking original, vibrant, and engaging theater. Includes: Cry Old Kingdom by Jeff Augustin; O Guru Guru Guru, or why I don't want to go to yoga class with you by Mallery Avidon; Gnit by Will Eno; Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; 27 Ways I Didn't Say "Hi" to Laurence Fishburne by Jonathan Josephson; The Delling Shore by Sam Marks; Two Conversations Overheard on Airplanes by Sarah Ruhl; Halfway by Emily Schwend; and Sleep Rock Thy Brain by Rinne Groff, Lucas Hnath, and Anne Washburn. "How exactly do we become the people we are? That knotty question hovered in the air at the Humana Festival of New American Plays...The most intriguing works in the festival, now under the direction of Les Waters, take the audience on engrossing journeys through the thick underbrush of the human psyche as it is shaped by family, society and the divided impulses of the self." - New York Times

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The Humana Festival 2017 anthology brings together all nine scripts from the 2017 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 41st annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This compilation features extraordinary work by some of the most inventive voices in American theatre, including the full-length plays I Now Pronounce by Tasha Gordon-Solmon, We're Gonna Be Okay by Basil Kreimendahl, Cry It Out by Molly Smith Metzler, Recent Alien Abductions by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas, and Airness by Chelsea Marcantel. The book also includes The Many Deaths of Nathan Stubblefield, written by Jeff Augustin, Sarah DeLappe, Claire Kiechel, and Ramiz Monsef in collaboration, as well as the ten-minute plays The New Line by Will Eno, Home Invasion by Krista Knight, and Melto Man and Lady Mantis by Eric Pfeffinger.

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The Humana Festival of New American Plays has been a leading home for extraordinary playwrights and their imaginations for more than four decades, making Actors Theatre of Louisville one of the nation’s preeminent powerhouses for new play development. For six weeks every spring, Louisville exerts a gravitational pull on producers and theatre lovers from around the country, who travel from far and wide for the adventure of seeing a diverse slate of fully-produced new plays. Many Humana Festival plays have gone on to garner awards and subsequent productions, making a sustained impact on the international dramatic repertoire. Humana Festival 2018: The Complete Plays brings together all six scripts from the 42nd annual cycle of world premieres, featuring a remarkable array of work by some of the most exciting voices in the American theatre. This anthology makes the Humana Festival plays available to an even wider audience, allowing readers to experience the collision of perspectives, styles and stories that makes the festival such an invigorating celebration of the art form. This compilation features the full-length plays Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-Greenberg, Evocation to Visible Appearance by Mark Schultz, we, the invisibles by Susan Soon He Stanton, Marginal Loss by Deborah Stein, and God Said This by Leah Nanako Winkler, as well as You Across from Me, a collaboratively-written play by four writers—Jaclyn Backhaus, Dipika Guha, Brian Otaño, and Jason Gray Platt.

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This anthology brings together all nine scripts from the 2015 Humana Festival of New American Plays, including I Will Be Gone by Erin Courtney, The Glory of the World by Charles Mee, The Roommate by Jen Silverman, and Pig Iron Theatre Company's I Promised Myself to Live Faster.

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