About - three witches shakespeare

About Us

building a coven of queer and marginalized artists
in louisville, kentucky since 2023

three witches explores the classical theatrical cannon with innovation, irreverence, and fun, while empowering historically excluded artists and audiences⁠—particularly the queer community⁠—to find themselves explicitly represented in traditional plays.

About three witches

In May 2023, three witches debuted with A Midsummer Night’s Dream: a sparkling, fabulously queer romp in the woods at the Louisville Nature Center. In March of 2024, three witches presented As You Like It, directed by Mollie Murk at Play Louisville. In May of that same year, three witches returned to the Louisville Nature Center with Gallathea directed by Allie Fireel. In November, three witches presented Much Ado About Nothing directed by Clarity Hagan at the Conrade-Caldwell House. Our most recent play was an Appalachian snake-handling Macbeth directed by three witches co-founder and West Virginia native Tory Parker.

In addition to our five mainstage plays three witches has produced other, smaller projects. This includes performances at the Louisville Fringe Fest in 2023 and 2024; the [Optionally] Drunk Shakespeare series where actors pull roles out of a hat moments before performing a Shakespeare play (optionally inebriated); and ShakesQueer – three messy couples scenes from Shakespeare, nontraditionally cast and performed for three nights at Trouble Bar, Canary Club, and the Old Louisville Coffee Co-op in September of 2023.

Three witches has 73 current “coven” members – folks who have worked with us and continue to be part of our community. Our coven includes folks who identify as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Asexual, Nonbinary, and Sapphic, as well as artists who are Black, Hispanic, white, Phillipino, and many who have intersectional identities. Though not all of our coven members are queer, the overwhelming majority do identify as such.

With each new project, three witches shakespeare leads with care and collaboration, drawing full houses who consistently leave feeling more connected to their community.

Three witches also recently became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the legal name THREE WITCHES SHAKESPEARE INC.

Mission, Vision, & Values

Creative Agency

We value the voices of our artists, and trust them to meaningfully contribute to artistic spaces.

Mutual Support

Artists deserve spaces where their humanity is valued, and we are able to show up for one another.

Community

three witches intentionally creates space for meaningful relationships to grow through our work and our storytelling.

Innovation

We create theatre in nontraditional ways, and deeply value play and experimentation in all of our processes.

Artistry

A love of creating and appreciating great art is at the heart of everything three witches strives to make.

three witches leadership team

Clarity Hagan (she/they)

Co-Founder

Clarity Hagan (she/they) is a theater artist from Louisville, Kentucky. They are particularly interested in storytelling which lifts up under-heard voices and invites engagement, not only in its content, but also in the creative ways in which that work is produced and presented. Their staged readings and short plays have been performed across Louisville, and they produced their full-length play The Moth and the Masked Man at the MeX Theater in the Kentucky Center in November 2022. Their play, Just Cause: The Story of the Lexington Six, was produced by Looking for Lilith in 2025. Clare is also a co-founder of three witches shakespeare, a company focused on queer, feminist classical theater. She has co-produced each three witches play and directed three witches’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2023) and Much Ado About Nothing (2024). Clarity has worked as a properties director with Kentucky Shakespeare, a playwright with the Derby City Playwrights, a company member and Programs Manager with Looking for Lilith, and as a teaching artist Actors Theatre of Louisville. She currently works as a Manager of Community Investment & Support at The Fund for the Arts.

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Tory Parker (she/her)

Co-Founder

Tory Parker (she/her) is a theatre artist and arts admin professional. She is one of the founders of three witches shakespeare and of Untitled Louisville Theatre Company, and has worked and/or performed with Actors Theatre of Louisville, Claddagh Theatre Company, the Chamber Theatre, Bellarmine University, Wayward Actors Company, Derby City Playwrights, Company OutCast, This Bridge Theatre, Highview Arts Center, Louisville Fringe Festival, Globe Arm Wrestling, and director Emily Grimany. As a playwright: Recommended for You appears in Stage It and Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theatre and The Redwoods appeared in Highview Arts Center’s Quick Quills Play Festival 2024. She directed and produced Untitled Theatre Company’s performance of Do You Feel Anger? and three witches’ Macbeth (2025). She currently works as the Director of Marketing and Communications at Fund for the Arts.