<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3451ece6-35b3-a6d2-af61-3a06a8a4cf24"><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">May 23, 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">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</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">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"><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.wamtheatre.com</span></a></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>; 413-274-8122</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"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/sets/72157648698789976/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/</span></a></p><br><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 Fresh Takes Play Reading of</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The Droll</span><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"> Set for June 4 </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 (May 23, 2017) -  The WAM Theatre 2017 Fresh Takes Play reading series continues with </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 Droll</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 Meg Miroshnik at 3:30 pm on Sunday, June 4 at </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">No. Six Depot Roastery and Café </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">in West Stockbridge. WAM Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven will direct, and acclaimed local professional actor and theatre educator Jennie M. Jadow is co-producing and will be reading one of the roles.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:19pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Droll</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is a new play about the end of theatre. Through the lens of 17th Century Puritan England, the play explores artists living lives of creativity when doing so was a crime. The protagonist, young Nim Dullyn, seeks to join an underground theatrical troupe being pursued by the controlling and unjust government Roundheads - who deem theater an abomination - as they risk everything to perform one last </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hamlet</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> against all odds. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Droll</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is a love letter to actors and an exploration of art and politics. Through this reading, WAM asks our audience: What would you risk for your passions, your art?</span></p><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">The cast includes David Adkins (Berkshire Theatre Group/WAM’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Bakelite Masterpiece</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) as James Killingsworth; Gregory Boover (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shakespeare & Company’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4000 Miles</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) as Nim Dullyn; Thomas Brazzle (Shakespeare & Company’s</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Merchant of Venice)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> as Thomas Dread Rosey; Rory Hammond (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM’s Silence</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) as Doll Cutpurse; Jennie M. Jadow (WAM’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Photograph 51</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) as Margaret Killingsworth; Maizy Scarpa (Hubbard Hall’s</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> King Lear</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) as Roundhead; and Christopher Tucci (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kickwheel’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Passage</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) as Williem Rifel.</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">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Droll</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is a play that has captured my attention and imagination for quite some time,” said Jadow, explaining why she wanted to co-produce this reading. “Meg Miroshnik's work holds much that is fascinating to me; and this idea of awakening a child to the power of theatre, so that a future generation can carry forth an awareness of culture and art, even in the darkest of times, and, potentially, at great personal cost, highlights for me the active role of the artist in our society.”</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">There are only 30 tickets available for this reading reading. Tickets are $20, which includes a post-show conversation and the opportunity to meet the cast and director. Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Café. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2017 Fresh Takes Series is generously supported by No. Six Depot and the Dramatists Guild Fund.</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">The 2017 Fresh Takes Series concludes on Friday, August 1 at 5 pm with a special free reading of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Smart People </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Kristen van Ginhoven, hosted by the Williamstown Theatre Festival at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;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);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:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">June 4, 2017</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;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Droll</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;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">by Meg Miroshnik</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;font-weight:700;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:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">with </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">David Adkins as James Killingsworth </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Greg Boover as Nim Dullyn</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thomas Brazzle as Thomas Dread Rosey</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rory Hammond as Doll Cutpurse</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jennie M. Jadow as Margaret Killingsworth</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maizy Scarpa as Roundhead</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Christopher Tucci as Williem Rifel</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"><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/the-droll/">http://www.wamtheatre.com/the-droll/</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;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fresh Takes Play Reading Series</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">Curated by WAM Theatre’s Artistic Associate Molly Clancy and usually hosted by No. Six Depot Roastery and Café on 6 Depot Street in West Stockbridge, MA, on select Sundays at 3:30 pm. </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">There are only 30 tickets available per reading at No. Six Depot. Tickets are $20, which includes a post-show conversation and the opportunity to meet the cast and director. Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Café. </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(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please note all sales are final.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> No refunds available. Patrons may exchange tickets up to 48 hours before curtain– not including special event one-night performances. No refunds or exchanges for already discounted tickets.</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">For tickets and more information visit: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-2017/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-2017/</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 CAST</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;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">David Adkins (James Killingsworth): </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM 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">The Bakelite Masterpiece</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">24 Hour Theatre Project</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2016). Elsewhere: David is an actor, writer, director, and made his Broadway debut at The National Actor’s Theatre. He has worked off-Broadway – Manhattan Theater Club, Primary Stages, Women’s Project, Aquila, Pearl – has worked extensively in resident theaters across the country, and has performed in over 20 productions at the Berkshire Theatre Group where he is an Artistic Associate. His focus now is television where he has recently guest starred on</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Blacklist, Homeland, Good Wife, Elementary, The Americans, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and others</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;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;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Greg Boover (Nim Dullyn): </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes Reading: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Silence.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Elsewhere: Greg has worked as an actor, musician and educational artist at Shakespeare & Company since 2012, most recently directing in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare and performing on the northeast tours of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hamlet</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">Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & Twelfth Night</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. He has also worked regionally with Theater at Monmouth, Hampshire Shakespeare Company, Berkshire Playwrights Lab and in NYC at Looking Glass Theatre. Training: University of MA Amherst (BA, theater), University of Kent, Canterbury. Shakespeare & Co. 2017 January Intensive. Et cetera: Catch Greg in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4000 Miles</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at Shakespeare & Company this season! Artwork on Instagram</span><a href="http://booverdoodles/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(111,119,185);text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> @booverdoodles</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;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thomas Brazzle (Thomas Dread Rosey):</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes Reading: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grand Concourse</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Elsewhere: Thomas has worked regionally for The Guthrie Theater, The Alley Theatre, TheatreSquared, Portland Stage, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, and Shakespeare and Company. Most recently he was seen as Edmund in King Lear at The Guthrie . He has also worked in New York with Old Hat Theatre Co., Voyage Theatre Company, The Brewing Dept., and The Hudson Warehouse. Film: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Night in the City, Absent</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Training:  Stephen F. Austin State University (BFA) and University of Connecticut (MFA). Online: </span><a href="http://www.thomasbrazzle.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(111,119,185);text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.thomasbrazzle.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Et cetera: Thomas is excited to return to WAM!</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;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rory Hammond (Doll Cutpurse):</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes 2015: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Silence</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. NYC 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">Pericles (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SoHo Rep), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Measure for Measure</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Circle in the Square), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bachelorette</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Lesley Headland (Circle in the Square), John Patrick Shanley’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Where’s My Money</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Cherry Lane Theatre), 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">The Scarlet Letter</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> starring Marisa Tomei. Berkshire Theatre: Shakespeare & 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">Taming of the Shrew</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"> King John</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">Richard III</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">Merry Wives ofWindsor</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">Off the Map</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">Much Ado About Nothing</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">Merchant of Venice</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">Dibble</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">Dance</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. The Wharton Salon at the Mount: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Autres Temp</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">Xingu</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">Summer</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. TV Credits: Dr. Pepper commercials circa 1998. Training: At Shakespeare & Company her entire life starting with Young Company and ending with a summer in the Summer Performing Institute (SPI). Graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School, New York City. Et Cetera: Rory is a founding member of Animus Theatre Company in New York City. Visit the Animus website at <a href="http://www.animustheatre.org">www.animustheatre.org</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;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jennie M. Jadow (Margaret Killingsworth, Co-Producer of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Droll</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Fresh Takes:Play Reading Series) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre:</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fresh Takes: Play Reading Series of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Photograph 51</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Everywoman</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, A Staged Reading. Regional: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It’s A Wonderful Life – The Radio Play, King Henry V, Servant of Two Masters</span><span style="font-size:7.2pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:sub;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Les Faux Pas, Learned Ladies, As you Like It, The Amorous Quarrel, Les Liaisons Dangereuse, Scapin, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Comedy of Errors </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Shakespeare & Company, MA); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Funny Girl, Cyrano De Bergerac</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Barrington Stage Company, MA); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camelot, Wilder, Wilder</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Berkshire Theatre Group); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Historias</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Jacob’s Pillow); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Babes in Toyland</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Heights Players); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pirates of Penzance</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Gallery Players); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Diamonds and Jewels Cabaret</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (92</span><span style="font-size:7.2pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap">nd</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> St Y). Education: BFA, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; MA Antioch University. Et. Cetera: Jennie works as part of Shakespeare and Company’s nationally recognized education team in Lenox, MA. </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;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maizy Scarpa (Roundhead): </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grand Concourse </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Emma);</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 Tall Girls</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Almeda); 24 Hour Theatre Project: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cirque Du Dismay </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(playwright) Elsewhere: La MaMa (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Political Snorts); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Barrington Stage </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(To Kill a Mockingbird); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(TheTempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hubbard 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">Wayward Home, Ondine, King Lear, Of Mice and Men), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Playwright: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAYWARD HOME: A Musical Folktale </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Opera House Arts, Hubbard 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">Cirque Du Dismay </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(WAM, Berkshire Playwrights Lab); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pandora Shakes Things Up</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Berkshire Playwrights Lab) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Adults</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Women’s Shorts); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Strange New Planet</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (NYU/Tisch); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Play Where Nothing Happens</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Shakespeare&Co.Fringe); Training: NYU/Tisch, Shakespeare & Company. Online:</span><a href="http://waywardhome.weebly.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(111,119,185);text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> waywardhome.weebly.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> &</span><a href="http://maizyscarpa.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(111,119,185);text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> maizyscarpa.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;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Christopher Tucci (Williem Rifel): </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre: Debut. Elsewhere: A recent transplant to the Berkshires, Chris was just in BPL’s Radius Festival and Kickwheel’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Passage. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Other work includes </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 Whipping Man</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with NPT, Gallery Players and at the Columbia Arts Festival in Maryland, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All My Sons</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at The Warner Theatre 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">Random Acts of Shakespeare</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at The Geffen Playhouse and Theatricum Botanicum. Film/TV: </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 Rick</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Cannes Film 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">Contemplating Annie </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(LA International Film Festival). Training: MFA, U.C.L.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;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: MEG MIROSHNIK</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">Fresh Takes Reading Series 2015: </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 Tall Girls</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">Plays: </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 Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls;</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 Droll {A Stage-Play about the END of 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 Tall Girls;</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">Old Actress;</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and an adaptation of the libretto for Shostakovich’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Moscow, Cheryomushki</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">Venues: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">La Jolla Playhouse, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Center Theatre Group, South Coast Rep, the McCarter Theatre Center, Yale Rep, Alliance Theatre, Yale Rep, the Kennedy Center, Lark New Play Development Center, Chicago Opera Theater, the Moscow Playwright and Director Center, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Circle X, The Wilma Theater, Perishable Theatre, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, and One Coast Collaboration. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Awards:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> She is the recipient of a 2012 Whiting Award. Her play </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 Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> was a finalist for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn prize and winner of the 2011-2012 Alliance/Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award. </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"> MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama where she studied with Paula Vogel. </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">Meg hails from Minneapolis and currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is a member of the Playwrights Union and</span><a href="http://www.thekilroys.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(111,119,185);text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The Kilroys</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);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);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);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Bakelite Masterpiece, 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);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"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Waxworks </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Williams 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">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 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Festival (Barrington Stage Company), Petticoats</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hour (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). Selected assistant directing: </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 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 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 and is a member of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festival of Canada. Kristen is the co-founder and Artistic Director of WAM 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">Website:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(111,119,185);text-decoration-line:underline;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, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the Appelbaum-Kahn 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">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><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"> </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;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT WAM THEATRE</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">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">Since 2010, WAM Theatre has donated more than $32,500 to twelve nonprofit organizations and provided paid work to more than 200 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-line: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:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"># # #</span></p><br></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-heigh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