https://www.lizfentress.net/history daily 0.75 2026-04-04 https://www.lizfentress.net/about daily 0.75 2021-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613850743700-U3S2TK3EK4W3MTVK001O/Caitlin+Brock+and+Keifer+Adkins+in+STAGES+OF+BLOOM+%282%29.jpg About Caitlyn Brock and Keifer Adkins in the world premiere of Stages of Bloom at the Public Theatre of Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613758915640-P8KI1R6KGFJ7VPSSDXJQ/Liz+w+shovel+%282%29.png About Liz Bussey Fentress in the world premiere of Liz’s Circus Story at Horse Cave Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613162752526-MAXXKD7KBUTS4ZCBBFC7/Liz+opening+hive.JPG About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613163155724-C42UYSJJ69U82RD5YJDC/Scan1_2_0003+%282%29.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1612562924327-CD0F9SII02MXH3X8VFNI/Liz+Fentress+-+2020.JPG About https://www.lizfentress.net/home daily 1.0 2026-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1612465269166-FYGY4OPT88TFC8S8VZCM/Liz%2BFentress.jpg Home - Liz Fentress is an award-winning playwright with extensive experience as an actor, director, and teacher in professional, community, and educational theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/d551cff0-453b-4d26-af61-b4a79a7c6b20/lizfentress_tiger_triptych.png Home - Make it stand out Liz’s Circus Story: 1974 - Quad Cities Wild Animal Zoo; 2001 - Horse Cave Theatre; April 10 & June 22, 2025 - Honest Dog Books, Bayfield; May 15, 2026 - TNW Ensemble Theater, Madison! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/6f266970-3ed4-4654-8d5a-d6d8a5df1198/Liz+w+cotton+candy.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1633200195471-SWY38ORJ1TL8W2KXL31O/Kayaking+at+Fish+Camp.JPG Home - Make it stand out September 2022 - Liz is in residence at the Tofte Lake Center at Norm’s Fish Camp in Ely, MN, working on her new full-length play Market America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1632862624436-SVLEMVAAIE2U5GNXIBDQ/STAGES+OF+BLOOM+Zoom+reading.png Home - Make it stand out July 2020 - Stages of Bloom reunion-from-around-the-world Zoom reading with (left to right, top to bottom): Liz Fentress, Brandon Anderson, K.C. Kelly, Hal Park, Suzanne Sturn, Br. Paul Vincent Niebauer, and Olivia Schleper. K.C. (New Zealand), Suzanne (California), Paul (Minnesota), and Liz (Wisconsin), met in an acting class at the University of Wisconsin in 1971. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1612466822220-ETP34QPTQG4CPJVEPBBC/PTK+Backstage+Banter.jpg Home - July 2020 - Listen to the Backstage Banter podcast with Liz and Amber Turner, Producing Artistic Director of the Public Theatre of Kentucky in Bowling Green, at Liz Fentress by PTK Backstage Banter • A podcast on Anchor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613498165844-IW326919I9F47O409W3J/Liz+and+Liz+%282%29.jpg Home November 2019 - Liz with Kiernen Callahan as Liz in the world premiere of the ensemble version of Liz’s Circus Story at Mercy Academy Theatre, Louisville July 2019 - World premiere of Neutral Position at the Derby City Playwrights Festival at the Bard Theatre, Louisville https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613498776850-8LC5SFBP6E3XFT8WN5WB/Edna+McCarthy+-+The+Best+Christmas+Pageant+Ever+-+2009+%282%29.jpg Home December 2009 - December 2018 - Liz as Edna McCarthy in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at Stage One Family Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1612476442761-A5Y62M1ZS1KLETUHKTAJ/Sides+Podcast.jpg Home August 2018 - Hear an interview with Liz on her career in the theatre on the Sides Podcast w/Paul T. Carney at 006- Liz Fentress on Sides Podcast w/Paul T. Carney (podbean.com) January 2018 - The Honey Harvest at the Little Colonel Playhouse, Peewee Valley, KY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1612477226711-LVA7J1X6DM6Z7URMKF59/Bak+Middle+School.jpg Home April & October 2017 - Liz is in residence at Bak Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach conducting playwriting workshops. June 2017 - Stages of Bloom at the Bunbury Theatre, Louisville March 2017 - World premiere of Stages of Bloom at the Public Theatre of Kentucky, Bowling Green https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1612477377365-N4V21B8N45PSQJU5TRFW/St.+John%27s+AMAHL.JPG Home November 2016 - Liz is at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN, working on a production of Amahl and the Night Visitors with life-size puppets from the Little Angel Marionette Theatre in London commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II for the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Concert Hall on the Thames. https://www.lizfentress.net/otherwork daily 0.75 2021-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613267203663-LATVMN8KMB0C4G1XU2TZ/WORLD+PREMIERES+-+CoverLBF+-+300+ppi.jpg Other Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613267675503-RI549ZBE6X3CGB9JGBAA/4+Teachers+Play.jpg Other Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1616536014958-RRZ21TVJEYA8FV6SEAXX/Playhouse+-+Wayne%2C+Jim%2C+Liz.JPG Other Work Playhouse in the Park Addition and Renovation Project with Wayne Bates and Jim Carpenter. https://www.lizfentress.net/plays daily 0.75 2023-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613164973701-3UPSDIWBUB7QSYDPOVWM/Caitlin+Brock+and+Keifer+Adkins+as+Chelsea+and+Nick%2C+Stages+of+Bloom.jpg Plays “Starry Night. Good name for a rose.” Caitlyn Brock and Keifer Adkins in Stages of Bloom at the Public Theatre of Kentucky. Following a troubling experience at church, ninety-year old Edith Jones looks to her award-winning roses for comfort. On a Friday night in September, joined by her hapless “yard-man,” a rigid brother-in-law, and a young college student and her Marine Corps boyfriend, in the backyard of her home, Edith struggles to assemble an entry for her very last rose show. A hybrid tea in perfect exhibition form fails to hold the answers to her hard questions but, come Sunday morning, an enlightened Edith and her new friends are all ready to celebrate their own evolving “stages of bloom.” 3 M, 2 F Exterior 90 minutes World premiere, Public Theatre of Kentucky, Bowling Green – 2017 Bunbury Theatre, Louisville - 2017; read the review at ‘Bloom’ delivers quality writing and performances - LEO Weekly Staged reading, Bluegrass Playwrights Showcase, Lexington – 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613165654725-CB2G5UZ6BU2GSK5KF84C/LizCircus_a_0900.jpg Plays “I growl back!” Liz Bussey Fentress in Liz’s Circus Story. (Photo courtesy of Kentucky Educational Television.) An autobiographical, one-actor play, Liz’s Circus Story spans 23 years. At 21, just out of college, Liz takes a job as ring mistress, organist, and puppet show performer with the brand-new, one-ring, Franzen Bros. Circus. Wayne Franzen, the founder, had dreamed of starting a circus since he was a boy on a Wisconsin dairy farm. While portraying herself, Wayne, and an array of other circus characters and animals, Liz shares the trials and triumphs of the fledgling circus and her own efforts to pursue her dream of working in theatre. 1 F Unit set 80 minutes Television National Educational Television Award (NETA) for Best Dramatic Narrative – 2005 Kentucky Educational Television – 2004 YOU CAN SEE Kentucky Educational Television's production of Liz's Circus Story at Liz’s Circus Story - KET Education KET’s Liz’s Circus Story website includes a comprehensive production history, interviews with the production staff, and Franzen Bros. Circus photos. Stage Sun City Players Community Theatre, AZ - 2015 Mabel Tainter Theatre, Menomonie, WI – 2006 Long Lake Theatre, Hubbard, MN – 2005 University of Wisconsin School of the Arts, Rhinelander - 2004 World premiere, Horse Cave Theatre, KY - 2001 Ensemble version World premiere - Mercy Academy Theatre, Louisville - 2019 The complete text of Liz’s Circus Story with pictures and playwright notes is included in World Premieres from Horse Cave Theatre available from amazon at World Premieres from Horse Cave: Plays by Kentucky Writers: Hammack, Warren, Fentress, Liz Bussey, White, Pamela: 9781934894156: Amazon.com: Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1612468675475-4ID0SY0DSUFPTO8UWS6D/NEUTRAL+POSITION+poster.png Plays - A couple’s plans for a home and family blow up when their careers put them on opposite sides of a death penalty case. 3 M, 3 F ensemble Unit set 90 minutes Workshop production, Derby City Playwrights’ Festival, Louisville - 2019; read the review at Riding The Fence | Arts-Louisville Reviews (arts-louisville.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1601585584233-XMQPG17HCCJV155NTL1B/The+Honey+Harvest+-+2004-3.jpg Plays “So, the singing... it’s a mind thing, isn’t it? It's what's in your mind. You can call the sound bees make ‘buzzing’ or ‘humming’ or ‘singing.’ But it's not that bees really sing. It’s whether or not you think they're singing.” Fred Willecke and Anne Leachman in The Honey Harvest at Kentucky Repertory Theatre. Melissa Holt, who is determined to help her father recover his will to live, learns life-changing lessons as a new beekeeper: she installs package bees, catches a swarm during a thunderstorm, and harvests her first miraculous honey crop. She also learns the bees have their own ways and can’t be controlled. She learns that, whereas she thought she moved home to help her father live, in fact, she is home to help him die. Melissa’s father rests beneath the most beautiful wind-blown white pine in all of Western Wisconsin—and the bees sing. 3 M, 1 F Exterior 90 minutes Little Colonel Players, Pewee Valley, KY – 2018; read the review at ‘Honey Harvest,’ unusual, appealing tone - LEO Weekly Winner, Little Colonel Players' Playwriting Contest - 2018 Staged reading, Tristan Bates Theatre, London - 2008 Winner, North American Actors Association Playwriting Contest - 2008 World Premiere, Kentucky Repertory Theatre - 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1601586084396-43L4MN7A0854FV2ZP8X7/One.jpg Plays “Beauty? Yeah, beauty’s rare--and it goes away.” Talleri Adkins-McRae and Josh Loren in Strike Zone at the Bard Theatre, Louisville It’s summer in a small Wisconsin town and Beth Zeeman, with a new husband and a new job, thinks she’s finally found her place in the world. But when a cop confirms troubling rumors, Beth is faced with the challenge of a lifetime: define who she really is, and what she really stands for. 2 M, 2 F INTERIOR 95 minutes World premiere, The Bard Theatre, Louisville – 2011 https://www.lizfentress.net/contact-liz daily 0.75 2021-04-03 https://www.lizfentress.net/actor daily 0.75 2021-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613431822515-MDZTQBU2MYUU4DUEWGGG/Edna+in+rollers+-+Best+Christmas+Pageant+Ever+-+2010+%282%29.jpg Actor Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Edna McCarthy with Gayle King as Irma https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613854867611-M3A1TTMAQ8WHTD2TTHP6/Edna+-+FIRE%21+-+2012+%282%29.jpg Actor Best Christmas Pageant Ever - “Fire!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613854925890-7O59VWAVG7IHEMWK4GH8/Granny+Foster+with+Winny+-+Tuck+Everlasting+-+2011.jpg Actor Tuck Everlasting - Granny Foster with Lauren Petry as Winnie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613427929033-ULDP5CJK1KC45S7EC4M9/Madame+Arcati+BLITHE+SPIRIT+%282%29.jpg Actor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1614187605198-69JYS6S79DM88S53DNKQ/Lady+Croom+ARCADIA+%282%29.jpg Actor Arcadia - Lady Croom with Bill Bruner as Ezra Chater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613852303494-01REGXRH310XDASQVT6J/Claire+RUMORS+%282%29.png Actor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1614187574764-3CPJNSLSJCZF5MK6SFEM/Alana+JUST+TAKING+UP+SPACE+%282%29.png Actor World premiere of Raven’s Gift by John Howell - Alana with Peggy Holbrook as Carla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613852460620-NHV8B8U71ECNMW0YXA0J/Mrs.+Malaprop+THE+RIVALS.png Actor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1614187332404-49KLIE9G51MPEHJ8YZPM/Meg+THE+BIRTHDAY+PARTY.png Actor - The Birthday Party - Meg with Warren Hammack as Stanley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613854598544-ET1RIL3KBG9BZCLS12WA/KY+Shakes+-+Nurse.png Actor Romeo and Juliet, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival - Nurse with Vondria Bergen as Juliet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4e6f511fae6409a62dc366/1613854653746-Q2B5AMSFTQ316S3PQIZ2/Mollie+Murphy+w+poster.jpg Actor Mollie Murphy, Petophile Vigilante, Guerrilla Da’Ville Film - Mollie