Identity, Heritage, Culture, and Allyship
ShPIeL is a 501(c)3 non-profit arts and culture organization registered in Kentucky, and our mission is to develop, incubate, produce and promote Jewish, multicultural, and intersectional theatre out of identity, heritage, and authenticity. Through this ShPIeL promotes social justice, dialogue, knowledge, and responsibility in order to challenge antisemitism, racisms, and xenophobias of all kinds. Through promoting the power of Jewish and diverse identities and their stories, we truly believe that more understanding and inclusiveness can be achieved, that creates understanding, joy, allyships and tikkun olam (Heb.) - repair of the world.
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Incredible Finds, Inc. by Casey J. Adler
A Workshop Production Presented by ShPIeL-Performing Identity, in Partnership with Redline Performing Arts.
October 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15
The Historic Broadway Theater, 816 East Broadway, Louisville, KY.
Incredible Finds, Inc. by Casey J. Adler
ShPIeL-Performing Identity, in Partnership with Redline Performing Arts, Presents the Workshop Production of Incredible Finds, Inc. by Casey J. Adler Directed by Holly Kissel October 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 The Historic Broadway Theater, 816 East Broadway, Louisville, KY. LOUISVILLE, KY – JULY 2026 In a time when affordability and workers’ rights are powerful issues in this country, ShPIeL Performing Identity announces the premiere performances of INCREDIBLE FINDS, INC. written by Casey J. Adler and directed by Holly Kissel. This production marks ShPIeL’s and Redline Performing Arts’ first-ever producing partnership at the Historic Broadway Theater. INCREDIBLE FINDS, INC., a powerful new play developed intensively at The Actors Studio Play Development Unit (West) along with ShPIeL’s script incubator, JewFace, in Los Angeles, is about a product distribution center in Kentucky. Drawing on the Jewish and Black roots of social protest and labor rights, this play is inspired by gritty social dramas like Waiting For Lefty by Clifford Odets and Street Scene by Kurt Weill, Langston Hughes, and Elmer Rice. Adler propels the drama into the present with richly developed characters, a gripping interracial and intercultural narrative, while seamlessly weaving in events from today. As the story unfolds at the distribution center, with its web of bureaucracy and with the disruption of the introduction of advanced AI, the workers are drawn towards collective action to fight against the systems that exploit disparities in power. Facing years of unsafe working conditions and low wages, the workers of the Incredible Finds distribution…
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