Paducah Mining Company (1995 - 2003)
Paducah Mining Company was an award winning, exploratory lab theater that devised new work and produced plays by contemporary American playwrights. Our mission was to explore cultural identity through class, race and gender. We produced and devised plays about spousal abuse (the West coast premiere of Paula Vogel’s Hot-n-Throbbing), domestic terrorism (my play 611 Supreme) and poverty in the United States (my project to stage the entirety James Agee and Walker Evans’ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the company devised This World Is Not My Home). The company received several Dean Goodman Choice Awards for our revival of Fool for Love and for the premiere of my play 611 Supreme.
Joint Artistic Directors: Susannah Martin & Elizabeth Spreen
Founding members: Susan Faust, Susan Martin (Joint Artistic Director), Karen Marek, Jeff Taub, Elizabeth Spreen (Founder), Don Wood, Michelle Talgarow
Waltzing the Half Hula (written & directed by Elizabeth Spreen)
Strangest Yellow adapted & directed by Susan Faust)
Fool For Love (by Sam Shepard, directed by Susannah Martin)
Hot-n-Throbbing (by Paula Vogel, directed by Susannah Martin)
2 x Sea: an evening of one acts featuring Finding the Sun (by Edward Albee + directed by Susannah Martin) and Life Under Water by Richard Greenberg + directed by Greg Land),
611 Supreme (by E. Hunter Spreen + directed by Susannah Martin)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
This World Is Not My Home