Artebella On The Radio: January 7

Jessica Wortham is about to appear in "Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End", which will begin streaming January 8 - 28, and "Romeo & Juliet Louisville 2020" which will arrive in February 2021, both on Actors Theatre Direct. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10:00 am to hear conversations with Louisville artists.

Jessica Wortham is an actor, a teacher, an audiobook narrator, a developer of new plays, and an Artist in Residence at Actors Theatre of Louisville for their Actors Theatre Direct season.

She has performed and studied internationally, traveled extensively both in the U.S. and abroad. She is about to appear in Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, which will stream on Actors Theatre Direct January 8 - 28, and Romeo & Juliet which will arrive in February 2021, also on Actors Theatre Direct.

Artebella On The Radio: December 31

Alonzo Ramont returns this week with Jack Sutherlin to talk about DigitalArtsLou.com, a new online platform for Louisville artists being launched by Redline Performing Arts and which will host a reading of Jack's new musical play, "Strings" on January 3. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com at 10:00 am each Thursday to hear artists talk about their work with Keith Waits on LVA's Artebella On The Radio.

Alonzo Ramont is the Owner and Artistic Director of Redline Performing Arts. Alonzo's experience includes Spotlight Theatre Camp Director, Asst. Director of Early Childhood Education at the Jewish Community Center of Louisville, Artistic Director at SC Theatre and New Albany Riverstage Productions.

Jack Sutherlin is a musician, singer, songwriter, and scriptwriter currently living in NYC but originally from Sellersburg, IN. 

“Strings” will stream on DigitalArtsLou.com on January 3, 2021.

Artebella On The Radio: November 26

John Austin Clark of Bourbon Baroque joined us this week to talk about their "Messiah 2020: In Soli - tüde", a series of four online performances that will stream on successive Sundays beginning November 29. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk with artists

Louisville native John Austin Clark co-founded Bourbon Baroque with the late violinist Nicolas Fortin. Mr. Clark operates a private piano studio, is an active accompanist and vocal coach, directs musical theatre and opera, and performs regularly with various ensembles and equity theatre houses such as Actors Theatre of Louisville and Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, Florida.

He is the recipient of the 2017 Young Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater Louisville Collegiate School in Louisville, Kentucky and a recipient of a Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts Toyota Alumni Grant that he used to apprentice with harpsichord builder Yves Beaupré of Montréal, QC in August 2017. He performs on a variety of keyboard instruments and owns a 2017 Beaupré Italian harpsichord. He can be heard on the Naxos/Centaur label.

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.