Perspectives / Rinne Groff Rinne Groff's play Orange Lemon Egg Canary was produced in the 2003 Humana Festival. The Ruby Sunrise, a co-production with Trinity Repertory Theatre, premiered at the Festival in 2004. I started sending plays down to the Actors Theatre of Louisville when I was still in graduate school, and much to my surprise and glee, Michael Bigelow Dixon, who was the literary manager at that point, started responding. I continue to be amazed at how whomever is running and working in the literary office—and I’ve had the great pleasure of working with Tanya Palmer, Amy Wegener and Adrien Alice-Hansel over the last years—manages not only to have read almost every script floating around in the theater world, but to have seen productions and readings of that many more. So we began flirting, exchanging words back and forth, Actors and I. By the time the theater propositioned me with the offer of my first actual production at Humana Festival (Orange Lemon Egg Canary, 2003), I was deep in love and ready to take the next step. I arrived on a Thursday, and aside from the fact that there was a python slithering around in the toilet bowl in my designated apartment—Amy Wegener can back me up on this if you need witnesses—it was as heavenly an experience as can be imagined. That night and throughout my time working at Actors Theatre of Louisville, I met writers whose work I had admired for years: Theresa Rebeck, Quincy Long, Kia Corthron, John Belluso, to name a few. I also met peers who have become friends and fellow soldiers in the battle of getting "emerging" work produced: Jordan Harrison, Bridget Carpenter, Adam Bock, again, to name only a few. I continue to follow the programming at the Humana Festival with a keen eye, knowing that there are great plays by fantastic playwrights which will emerge from that place every year. Thus, my romance with the Actors Theater continues. Like an ardent suitor who knows a really good thing when she sees it, I will always be pursuing Louisville’s love.