<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3d2b36a7-ae82-aa19-bd05-78d89ec89b06"><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Press folks! Our official opening night/press night performance is at 7:30 pm on Saturday, April 1. Please RSVP</b> and let me know if you are coming. This wonderful play should be spectacular in the Tina Packer Playhouse - a great reason to get out during Mud Season.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 8, 2017 </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre Announces 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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lenox, MA [March 8, 2017] - WAM Theatre’s eighth season continues with the limited run remount of the company’s very successful 2013 production of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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 WAM Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, featuring the entire original cast. The production will run from March 30-April 9, 2017, and be presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox.  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“I'm not only honored to have WAM re-mount </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie...</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, I'm inspired,” Gunderson wrote.  “WAM's commitment to powerful stories combined with their artistic excellence and their civic impact makes me want to write more plays like </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie...</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> about complex women changing the world. WAM truly manifests my belief that theatre actively and intentionally changes hearts, minds, and the future of a thoughtful and empathetic nation.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Audience members were equally enthusiastic, remarking: “</span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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). For additional information on the cast and creative team, visit: <a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/emilie-remount-2017/">http://www.wamtheatre.com/emilie-remount-2017/</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In keeping with WAM’s double philanthropic mission, a portion of proceeds will be donated to this production’s beneficiary: Flying Cloud Institute. WAM’s donation will support scholarships for public school girls who attend Flying Cloud's after school Girls Science Clubs, so girls who show promise and interest in science can join the Young Women in Science summer programs where they conduct experiments with women scientists and engineers working in laboratories at Bard College at Simon’s Rock.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM and Flying Cloud Institute also have support from Mass Humanities to engage 25 girls who attend Reid Middle School in Pittsfield and are part of Flying Cloud’s after school STEAM Team. These girls will conduct science experiments and participate in theater activities that will heighten their appreciation when they attend a matinee of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie…..</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> on April 6th, that features a panel of women scientists after the show.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambr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">Joan Coombs as Madam</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lauren Gunderson</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Revolutionists</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Reading with Chester Theatre). </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Her work has been commissioned, produced and developed at companies across the US including South Coast 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 (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I and You, Exit, Pursued By A Bear, and Toil And Trouble</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), Dramatists (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Silent Sky, Bauer</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) and Samuel French (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">). 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. Lauren 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. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online:</span><a href="http://www.laurengunderson.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(111,119,185);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LaurenGunderson.com</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Kristen van Ginhoven </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(New England Premiere),</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emilie</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (New England Premiere), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(World Premiere), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Adirondack Theatre Festival), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Barrington Stage Company), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Capital Repertory Theatre), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Footloose</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Cohoes Music Hall), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Siena College), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Emerson College). </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Huntington Theatre), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Barrington Stage Company) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Training:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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 Massac</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">husetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and by the Massachusetts Cultural Council Cultural. Our 2017 sponsors include Adams Community Bank, Berkshire Magazine, Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Blue Q, Brabson Library & Educational Foundation, Canyon Ranch, Custom Business Solutions, The Dylandale Foundation, The Feigenbaum Foundation, Futures Education, the Garden Gables Inn, Greylock Federal Credit Union, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace, In Touch Printing, International Schools Theatre Association, Interprint, Dr. Jay Wise, DDS & Dr. Casey Jones, DMD,  Lee Bank, Massachusetts Cultural Council, MAXYMILLIAN Technologies, Methuselah Bar and Lounge, No. Six Depot Roastery and Café, RB Design Co., Redfin, The Rookwood Inn, Rouge Restaurant & Bistro, The </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">T Square Design Studio, Toole Insurance, and a. von schlegell & co</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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 Alford-Egremont Cultural Council, Dalton Cultural Council, Lenox Cultural Council, New Marlborough Cultural Council, Pittsfield Cultural Council, Cultural Council of Northern Berkshires , Otis Cultural Council, Richmond Cultural Council, Sandisfield Cultural Council, Stockbridge Cultural Council, Washington Cultural Council, and West Stockbridge 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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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:12pt;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><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">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><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i>Our 8th Season:</i></span><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/special/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"> </a><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-2017/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Fresh Takes</a> | <a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/emilie-remount-2017/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Emilie </a>| <a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/stars-in-the-orchard-2017" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Stars in the Orchard</a> | <a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/the-last-wife/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">The Last Wife</a> | <a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/berkshire-leadership-summit-2017/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Leadership Summit</a><br></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></span></p><div><br><span><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://www.wamtheatre.com/donateonline/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);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></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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