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</div><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal">Contact:
Kristen van Ginhoven</p><div style="text-align:left">
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Graphic Hourglass Image of participants can be found at:</p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/6866479924/in/photostream" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/6866479924/in/photostream</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b><span>2<sup>nd</sup>
24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Three weeks until Unique SWAN Day Collaboration Across State Lines</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>[03/26/2012] LENOX, MA -- The second <b>24hr Berkshires/Capital
Region Theatre Project</b> brings together playwrights, directors, designers, stage
managers, technicians and actors from both the Berkshires of MA and the Capital
Region of NY armed with the common task of mounting <b>5 new short works by
female playwrights; all written, rehearsed and performed in 24 Hours</b>. <span> </span>WAM Theatre and MOPCO host the event
happening Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 8 p.m. in the Bernstein Theatre,
Shakespeare & Company, 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>After
last year’s inaugural sold out 24hr Project at the Arts Center of the Capital
Region in Troy, NY, WAM Theatre and MOPCO decided to join forces again to present
this colossal artistic adventure for a second time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Only
150 tickets are available for this unique creative collaboration across state
lines so book your $15 tickets now and be one of the lucky 150 who get to be
part of this one night only unique event. </span>As audience member last year,
and actor this year, Ted Phelps says, “This event was absolutely a night out.
The word "Hoot" came out of everyone's mouth after seeing it.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sara Katzoff, Artistic Director of the Berkshire Fringe, and
one of the director’s for the 2012 24hr Project said, “So many of us who make
our lives in the theater are so committed to our own projects, so engrossed within our own organizations and
deadlines that we don't often have an opportunity to participate in happenings
beyond our individual spheres. The 24 hour theater project is an incredibly
exciting avenue that brings together so many disparate movers and shakers
within the theater community and unites us in complete, full-contact
collaboration!”<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mark Fleischer, Artistic Director of the Adirondack Theatre
Festival, who is serving as one of the dramaturges this year and was one of the
directors last year added, “<span>Creating
new plays in such an intense environment is bolstered by the opportunity to
work with both longtime and new collaborators. I left those 24 hours
invigorated and rethinking my own creative process on traditional longer
projects. More than that, I felt more connected to this great professional
theatre community than ever.” </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>Co-Producer
Kristen van Ginhoven, Artistic Director of WAM, says the following about why
WAM/MOPCO are presenting the project again, “There is amazing talent and
creativity in both the Berkshires and the Capital Region so we are delighted
this year to include many new people. Hopefully this project will open the door
to more opportunities for them all as it did for last year’s participants.” MOPCO’s
Kat Koppett continues, “This project provides an incredible chance to
consolidate all the bonding and brilliance of a traditional endeavor into a
very brief span. And at Mopco, all our work is improvised, so having 24 hours
AND a script, heck, that's a life time.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>WAM
and MOPCO are grateful to Shakespeare & Company and Actor’s Equity
Association for their support. Other sponsors for this project include Mission
Bar & Tapas and Adams Community Bank. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span>DETAILS:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>Shakespeare
& Company Bernstein Theatre, 70 Kemble Road, Lenox, MA,
Saturday, April 14
at 8:00pm
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span>TICKETS:</span></b><span> $15
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>You
can purchase tickets online through Brown Paper Tickets at <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/217238" target="_blank">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/217238</a>
or by calling <a href="tel:1-800-838-3006" value="+18008383006" target="_blank">1-800-838-3006</a>.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span>PARTICIPANTS</span></b><span>:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Producers:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kat Koppett- Co-Director of
Mopco, Capital Region</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kristen van Ginhoven-WAM Theatre
co-founder and Artistic Director, WAM Theatre-Berkshires</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dramaturges/Producers
on-site:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mark Fleisher-Producing Artistic Director, Adirondack Theatre
Festival-Capital Region</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leigh Strimbeck-WAM Theatre co-founder and Artistic
Advisor-Capital Region</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Playwrights:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Liz Duffy Adams </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Capital Region- Ms. Adams’ recent
productions include <i>Or, </i>(premiered
Off Broadway at WP Theater) and <i>Dog Act </i>(Flux
Theater Ensemble in NYC). Among other honors she has received a 2012 Women of
Achievement Award, a Lillian Hellman Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship, and a New Dramatists residency. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Kelli Newby</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Berkshires- </span>Ms. Newby is a
playwright for the Barrington Stage Company Playwright Mentoring Program. She
is also a writing instructor at MCLA, where she has worked closely with the
Women’s Center on various theatrical projects. She is co-Artistic Director of
Main Street Stage.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Kat Koppett</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Capital Region-</span>Ms. Koppett is
the Co-Director of The Mop & Bucket Theatre Company (aka Mopco) and the
author of "Training to Imagine", a book on the use of improvisational
theatre techniques to enhance professional performance. She was a finalist in
the Playground Emerging Playwrights Festival in San Francisco. In 1995,
Theatreweek Magazine named Kat one of the year's unsung heroes for her creation
of the improvised musical format, "Spontaneous Broadway."<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span><br>
Cindy Parrish</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Capital Region- </span>Ms. Parrish is a
playwright, filmmaker, educator, and storyteller. HEROIC GIRLZ (the
stage play she co-wrote with four 11-year-old girls, and then a film which she
wrote and directed) has won numerous national and international awards, and has
been performed or screened at many venues, including the United Nations. For a
number of years, Cindy has been a playwright-in-residence in local schools.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span><br>
Rachel Siegel</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Berkshires- </span><span>Ms.
Siegel’s writing credits include <i>So
Sing Already! </i>at the New End, London and <i>Callback </i>for 10 Minutes in the Berkshires. She has worked as
an actor at Stageworks Hudson, Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre
Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Birmingham Rep (UK), and London's
Royal Court. She trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Directors:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>David Bunce-
Artist-in-Residence, Theatre Institute at Sage, Russell Sage College,
Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Michael Burns- Artistic Director of
MOPCO, Capital Region </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Danny Eaton- Producing Artistic
Director, Majestic Theatre, Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Sara Katzoff- Artistic Director of The
Berkshire Fringe Festival, Berkshires<br>
</span>Corinna May- Berkshires-based Director/actor/playwright-Berkshires<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Assistant Directors: David Sernick, Jamuna Yvette Sirker</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Designers:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brittney Belz-Costumes-Capital
Region</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brad Berridge-Sound-Berkshires</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sam Craig-Scenic
(Assistant) and Technician-Berkshires</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Juliana Haubrich-Scenic-Berkshires</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Joe + Jan Jurchak-Sound-Capital Region</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deena
Pewtherer-Lights-Berkshires</p><p class="MsoNormal">Nick Webb- Lighting (Assistant) and Technician-Berkshires<br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Stage Managers:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Valerie Carlson*- Berkshire Playwrights
Lab, Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Christopher Donovan-Barrington Stage
Company, WAM Theatre, Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Sara Friedman*- Saratoga Shakespeare
Theatre, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Capital Region<br>
Margaret Hall*-Capital Repertory Theatre, WAM Theatre, Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Brandi Klein*-Lake George Dinner Theatre, Berkshire Fringe
Festival, Capital Region</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Actors: </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Susanna Baum-Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Kathleen Carey-Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Joan Coombs-Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Lezlie Dana*-Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Tim Dugan*-Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Lora Lee Ecobelli*-Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Elizabeth Erwin*-Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Dana Harrison-Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Alika Hope*-Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Joey Hunziker-Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Ron Komora*-Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Alexandra Lincoln-Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Daniela Malave*-Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Erin Ouellette-Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Tony Pallone-Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Leandra Sharon-Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Alexia Trainor-Berkshires</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span>Ted Phelps-Berkshires<br>
Yvonne Perry*-Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Kevin Craig West*-Capital Region<br>
Linda White-Berkshires<br>
Stewart Zully*-Capital Region</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0in"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0in"><span>* Member Actor's Equity Association</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in">
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<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Graphics:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Enrico Spada-Berkshires</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Front of
House/Program:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Corissa
Bryant-Berkshires</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">This is a SWAN
day event. <i><b><span style="font-family:Cambria">SWAN
Day/Support Women Artists Now Day </span></b></i>is a new international
holiday that celebrates women artists. It is an annual event <span> </span>taking place on the <b><span style="font-family:Cambria">last Saturday of March</span></b> (Women’s History Month) and
the surrounding weeks. The official date of the Fifth International SWAN Day is
Saturday, March 31, 2012, and it will also be celebrated throughout the months
of March and April 2012. By focusing attention on the work of women artists, <i><span style="font-family:Cambria">SWAN Day</span></i> helps people imagine what the world might be
like if women’s art and perspectives were fully integrated into all of our lives.</span></p>
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Photos from last year’s
24hr Project available at:</p>
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<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/sets/72157626312412149/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/sets/72157626312412149/</a></p>
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<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal">Video about the project
available at:</p>
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<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/wamtheatre" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/wamtheatre</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times"><br>
</span><b>About WAM Theatre:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">WAM Theatre is a theatre company based in the Berkshires of
Massachusetts and the Capital Region of New York State. <span>Inspired by the book ‘Half the Sky: Turning
Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide’ by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl
WuDunn, </span>WAM Theatre was founded in 2009 by professional theatre artists <span>Kristen van
Ginhoven and Leigh Strimbeck.</span> WAM’s philanthropic mission is two-fold;
first, producing theatrical events for everyone, with a focus on women theatre
artists and/or stories of women and girls; second, to donate a portion of the
proceeds from those events to organizations that benefit women and
<a href="http://girls.www.wamtheatre.com/" target="_blank">girls.www.wamtheatre.com</a> <a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/" target="_blank"><span>www.wamtheatre.com</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>About MOPCO:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Live performance fills a central, universal need of humankind.
This need cannot be met by passive reception of electronic or virtual paths,
but must be experienced with all five senses. MopCo believes that the best
theatre comes out of an active collaboration between performer and audience. We
constantly expand, refine, and redefine our own concept of what improvisation
in performance is. This is because the company acts on the assumption that that
which is unchanging is probably dead, and will therefore begin to stink soon,
if it doesn’t already. <a href="http://www.mopco.org/" target="_blank">www.mopco.org</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">###</p><div><div><br></div></div>Kristen van Ginhoven<br>
Artistic Director, WAM Theatre<div><a href="tel:518-243-9627" value="+15182439627" target="_blank">518-243-9627</a><br><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com" target="_blank">www.WAMTheatre.com</a><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/WAMTheatre" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/WAMTheatre</a><div>
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