Perspectives / Jordan Harrison Actors Theatre has produced three of Jordan Harrison's plays: Fit for Feet, a ten-minute play (Heideman Award, 2003); and two full-length lays: Kid-Simple in the 2004 Humana Festival and Act a Lady in 2006 On the first day of rehearsal for Kid-Simple (2004), I told the cast and crew, "This is my first production where I won’t be xeroxing the program myself." This was not entirely true. My ten-minute play, Fit For Feet, produced in the previous year’s festival, had a glossy program that never saw the inside of a copy machine. But the statement felt true. (Watch out for writers: they favor the perceived truth over the factual truth.) The Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville was my debutante ball and my homecoming dance—the first big theater to take a chance on my plays, and the first theater to welcome me back. So many of my playwright idols are associated with a theater that championed their voices (as opposed to championing a single work). I think of Suzan-Lori Parks at the Public Theater, Caryl Churchill at Joint Stock and the Royal Court Theatre. Playwrights are all looking for an artistic home, and so far mine has been Actors Theatre of Louisville. The Humana Festival is part developmental workshop, part full-blown production, part paparazzi feeding frenzy, part traveling-salesman convention, part opening night at La Scala. I’ll leave you with a favorite Humana memory: In the final days of rehearsals for Kid-Simple, we snuck across the alley to a dormant Bingham Theatre and blocked the last scene of the play in the empty space. I watched the climactic scene take shape in every corner, every vom, every staircase of the Bingham, under director Darron L. West. I remember feeling like, after weeks squeezed into a rehearsal room, my play had flown the coop and become something larger than I ever imagined.