Top row: Roslyn Ruff in “Help” at The Shed (photo by Kate Glicksberg), Hailey Elizabeth in “Flex” at Actors Theatre of Louisville (photo by Philip Algeier), Eduardo Enrikez and Esperanza America in “Destiny of Desire” at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (photo by Mikki Schaffner); middle row: Mauren Sebastian, Paco Tolson, and Eugene Young in “Poor Yella Rednecks” (photo by Jordan Kubat); Gregg Mozgala and Zurin Villanueva in “Teenage Dick” at Woolly Mammoth (photo by Teresa Castracane); Nance Williamson and Britney Simpson in “The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington” at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (photo by Sara Krulwich/NY Times); bottom row: Rachel Share-Sapolsky, Evan Spigelman, Nia Weeks, and Dawn L. Troupe in “Ocean Filibuster” at American Repertory Theater (photo by Maggie Hall); Laurie Metcalf in rehearsal for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”