<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-0ec53a7f-9a10-210d-b636-d041501671ba"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 6, 2016 </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact: Gail Burns, Marketing and Publicity Associate</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com">www.wamtheatre.com</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:pr@wamtheatre.com">pr@wamtheatre.com</a>; 518.243.9627</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Press Photos can be found at:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/albums/72157637843978575">https://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/albums/72157637843978575</a></span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre Announces Spring 2017 Limited-Run Remount of “Emilie...”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lenox, MA [October 6, 2016] - Following hard on the heels of the opening of their critically acclaimed co-production of </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Bakelite Masterpiece</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, WAM Theatre’s  Artistic Director, Kristen van Ginhoven has announced plans for the first event of the company’s eighth season in 2017. A special event - a limited run remount of WAM’s very successful 2013 production of </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, written by Lauren Gunderson and directed by van Ginhoven, will run from March 30-April 9, 2017, and be presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox.  This announcement is made possible through the generous early support of Greylock Federal Credit Union.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In celebration of this announcement, WAM is offering a special ‘Buy Now, Choose Your Date Later’ ticket option that will be available only until the end of November.  These special early purchase tickets go on sale on Tuesday, October 11, 2016. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“We are very excited to announce that the entire original cast and the majority of the creative team are able to reassemble for this remount,” said van Ginhoven, “Giving another life to this audience favorite and critically acclaimed production has been a dream since 2013. Thanks to some early support from Greylock Federal Credit Union and others, this dream is becoming a reality. I couldn’t be more  delighted to be making this announcement and hope many others will come forward to support our efforts by purchasing their tickets today with our special ‘Buy Now, Choose Your Date Later’ option!”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With this early discount deal all tickets are just $30 each - a substantial saving off the regular ticket prices of $35-$50 - and can be booked at </span><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.WAMTheatre.com</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Just book your tickets before the end of November and then, in February, a WAM representative will call you to reserve the performance you’d like to attend between March 30- April 9. There will be ten performances of this special limited-run remount over the two week period. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2013 production was deemed “Highly Imaginative….Highly Theatrical….” by The Berkshire Eagle, which also awarded it Honorable Mention for</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best Production and named  Kim Stauffer's performance as Emilie one of the year’s best  in their Best of 2013 selection. Audience members were equally enthusiastic, remarking: “</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie...</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is everything I want in a theater experience: a great play about an intriguing, powerful woman, riveting acting, inspired directing, an artful set and engaging audience! ”,  and “...one of the most provocative, intelligent, funny, well acted, directed, written performances I've seen in a long time.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), best known for her 15-year-liaison with Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, was far more than a great man’s mistress. She became a highly regarded interpreter of modern physics and a master of mathematics and linguistics during the Age of Enlightenment. In the play, Emilie searches for a formula that will convince the world of her worth by tallying her achievements in love and philosophy. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kim Stauffer, whose credits include </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mary Stuart</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Macbeth</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at New York Classical Theatre, </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Outside Mullingar</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at Capital Rep, </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Madagasgar </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Crime and Punishment</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at the Chester Theatre Company, and </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Streetcar Named Desire</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Crucible</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at Barrington Stage Company, will reprise the role of Emilie. Voltaire will be portrayed again by Oliver Wadsworth, whose credits include the National Tour of </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chitty, Chitty Bang, Bang</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Well</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at The Public Theatre and </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fully Committed</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Metroland Best Performance) at Capital Repertory Theatre. Additional original cast members include Suzanne Ankrum (Tennessee Shakespeare Company), Brendan Cataldo (Adirondack Theater Festival), and Joan Coombs (Shakespeare & Company).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> had its world premiere in 2009 at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, Calif. The play has been described as “fiercely inquisitive and joyfully sexy” (The San Francisco Chronicle) and an “ambitious, highly theatrical romp that literally crackles with electricity” (LA/OC Examiner). WAM first staged the play in November of 2013 at the St. Germain Stage at Barrington Stage Company. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In keeping with WAM’s double philanthropic mission, a portion of proceeds from this production will be donated to an organization that benefits women and girls.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AT A GLANCE</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">by Lauren Gunderson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Directed by Kristen van Ginhoven</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Presented by WAM Theatre</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 30-April 9/17</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">at the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kemble Street, Lenox, MA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tickets: $30 “Buy Now, Choose Your Date Later”- special until end of November</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Starting December 1, tickets will range from $35-$50</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For tickets visit <a href="http://www.WAMTheatre.com">www.WAMTheatre.com</a> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cast</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Suzanne Ankrum as Soubrette</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brendan Cataldo as Gentleman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Joan Coombs as Madam</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kim Stauffer as Emilie</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oliver Wadsworth as Voltaire</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lauren Gunderson</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is the most produced living playwright in America for 2016, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s 3-Year Residency with Marin Theatre Co. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her work has been commissioned, produced and developed at companies across the US including South Cost Rep (Emilie, Silent Sky), The Kennedy Center (The Amazing mg American Adventures of Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog!), The O’Neill, The Denver Center, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Synchronicity, Olney Theatre, Geva and more. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You, Exit, Pursued By A Bear, and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists (Silent Sky, Bauer) and Samuel French (Emilie). She is a Playwright in Residence at The Playwrights Foundation, and a proud Dramatists Guild member. She is from Atlanta, GA and lives in San Francisco. LaurenGunderson.com</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE DIRECTOR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kristen van Ginhoven WAM Theatre:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In Darfur </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(New England Premiere),</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (New England Premiere), </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Old Mezzo</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(World Premiere), </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Melancholy Play</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regional Theatre:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Whale</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Adirondack Theatre Festival), </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">10 Minute Play Festival</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Barrington Stage Company), </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Petticoats of Steel</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Capital Repertory Theatre), </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Footloose</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Cohoes Music Hall), </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Children’s Hour</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Siena College), </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vendetta Chrome</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Emerson College). </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Selected assistant directing:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">They Physicists, 42nd Street</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada), </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Two Men of Florence</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Huntington Theatre), </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sleuth, Absurd Person Singular</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Barrington Stage Company) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Training:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Dalhousie University (BA), Queen’s University (BEd), Emerson College (MA). </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Et Cetera:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kristen is the Artistic Director of WAM Theatre, an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and a theatre artist for the International Schools Theatre Association. She was a member of the 2013 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Website: </span><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(111,119,185);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.wamtheatre.com</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OUR SEASON SPONSORS</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and by the </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Massachusetts Cultural Council Cultural. </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our 2016 sponsors include the Adams Community Bank, Berkshire Bank, Berkshire Magazine, Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Blue Q, Brabson Library & Educational Foundation, Canyon Ranch, Custom Business Solution, Dylandale Foundation, Feigenbaum Foundation, Garden Gables, Greylock Federal Credit Union, Guido's Fresh Marketplace, International Schools Theatre Association, Interprint, Dr. Jay Wise, DDS & Dr. Casey Jones, DMD,  Jon Gotterer DMD, Keator Group, LLC, Lee Bank, Lenox Education Enrichment Fund, Massachusetts Cultural Council, MAXYMILLIAN Technologies, Michele’s Salon + Day Spa, Nina Molin MD, No. Six Depot Roastery and </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Café,</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Petricca Industries, Pittsfield Cooperative Bank, RB Design Co., The Rookwood Inn, Rouge Restaurant & Bistro, Toole Insurance, A. von Schlegell & Co., The Sherman Investment Group-RBC Wealth Management, and Zabian's Fine Jewelers.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre is also supported in part by grants from the Lenox, Alford-Egremont, Pittsfield Cultural Council, Cultural Council of Northern Berkshires , Washington Cultural Council, Monterey Cultural Council, Stockbridge Cultural Council, West Stockbridge Cultural Council, Richmond Cultural Council – local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT WAM THEATRE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Based in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, WAM Theatre is Where Arts and Activism Meet. The company was co-founded in 2010 by Canadian director, actor, educator, and producer Kristen van Ginhoven. WAM’s vision is to create opportunity for women and girls through the mission of theatre as philanthropy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inspired by the book </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, WAM donates a portion of the proceeds from its theatrical events to organizations that benefit women and girls. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Over the past six years, WAM Theatre has donated more than $21,000 to eight nonprofit organizations and provided paid work to more than 175 theatre artists. In addition to the main stage productions and special events, WAM Theatre’s activities include a comprehensive educational outreach program and the Fresh Takes Play Reading Series. For more information, visit </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://www.WAMTheatre.com">www.WAMTheatre.com</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"># # #</span></p><br></span><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-- <br>Gail M. Burns<br><div><i>Marketing + Publicity Associate<br></i></div><div><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.WAMTheatre.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br></div><div><div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><img width="0" height="0"><span>413-274-8122</span><span></span></span></span></span><br><br></span></a></span></font></div><i style="font-size:12.8px">Our 7th Season:</i><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/special/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Special </a><span style="font-size:12.8px">| </span><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/2016-24-hour-theatre-project/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">24hr Project</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> | </span><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-2016/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Fresh Takes</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> | </span><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/stars-in-the-orchard-2016/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Stars in the Orchard</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> | </span><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/the-bakelite-masterpiece/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Bakelite Masterpiece</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Make a donation </span><a href="https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/WAMTheatreInc/donate.html" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">now</span></a><span style="font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to WAM Theatre!</span></font></span><br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>