<div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-79cf90a1-927d-8b51-d413-871bd4c8c3f8"><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;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">May 24, 2018</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;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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/#_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration: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;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/albums/72157693556536062">https://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/albums/72157693556536062</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honor Killing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Sarah Bierstock Up Next in WAM Theatre’s 2018 Fresh Takes Play Reading Series</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </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:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LENOX, MA (May 24, 2018) -  The WAM Theatre 2018 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-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honor Killing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Sarah Bierstock at 3:30pm on Sunday, June 10, at </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">in West Stockbridge. Former Fresh Takes curator Molly Merrihew will direct this hard-hitting political play that  recently completed its premiere production at Florida Studio 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:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honor Killing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Allisyn Davis, an American reporter for </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The New York Times</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, heads to Pakistan to cover the honor killing of a young woman. Denied entrance, she conducts her investigation remotely from Dubai. Through a series of cultural collisions, candid interviews, and dangerous encounters, she learns the horrifying details of this murder. These circumstances cause Allisyn to re-examine troubling details of her own past. One culture mirrors the other, asking questions about forgiveness, self-worth, and justice.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </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:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“When I first read </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honor Killing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, I was drawn to the play’s inventive storytelling and cross-cultural exploration of violence against women in the United States and Pakistan,” Merrihew explained. “I was also inspired by Sarah Bierstock’s integration of technology. Revisiting the play this spring has been illuminating. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I find the writing timely, relevant, and in line with WAM Theatre’s inspiration, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honor Killing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is a play about the media coverage of an atrocity that happened in another country, as playwright Sarah Bierstock explains: "What I am exploring is the idea that we Americans often judge our culture as superior because we don’t openly participate in some of those activities we deem horrific. But in reality, egregious, violent, and misogynistic activities occur right here in the United States every day."</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:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honor Killing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> brings together a stellar company of regional and New York-based actors, including Berkshire native, Caitlin Davies (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hudson Warehouse’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pericles</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, who assays the lead role of Allisyn; local favorites Ron Komora (Lloyd/Victor in WAM’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Holy Laughter</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) and Amber Chand (WAM’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Motherhood Out Loud</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">); and Abuzar Farrukh (appearing as Abe in Chester Theatre’s upcoming production of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Disgraced</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, directed by Kristen van Ginhoven), Shawn Jain (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">American Repertory Theater’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Charlotte’s Web)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Jay Sefton (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Majestic Theater’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Outside Mullingar</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and Katie Zaffrann (Shakespeare & Company’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Merry Wives of Windsor</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) making their WAM Theatre debuts.</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:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Seating is very limited and Fresh Takes readings often sell out. In that case, we encourage patrons to add their names to the waiting list. Tickets are $25 (general admission), 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(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2018 Fresh Takes Series is sponsored in part by No. Six Depot.</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(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2018 Fresh Takes Series continues on</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Sunday, August 12, at 2pm for a reading of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pipeline </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Dawn M. Simmons, presented in the auditorium at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inspired by Michelle Alexander’s best-seller, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The New Jim Crow</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pipeline</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">beautiful and deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.</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:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">June 10 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fresh Takes Play Reading</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honor Killing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">by Sarah Bierstock</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">directed by Molly Merrihew</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sunday, June 10 at 3:30pm - talkback following</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">at No. 6 Depot Roastery & Café, 6 Depot Street, West Stockbridge, MA</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tickets: $25</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">featuring Amber Chand, Caitlin Davies, Abuzar Farrukh, Shawn Jain, Ron Komora, Jay Sefton, and Katie Zaffman</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:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/honor-killing/">http://www.wamtheatre.com/honor-killing/</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;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Now in its fifth season, the Fresh Takes Play Reading Series is curated by WAM Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston. The Fresh Takes Series is sponsored in part by No. 6 Depot Roastery and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Café</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> in West Stockbridge where our readings of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honor Killing,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Escaped Alone</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> will be presented at 3:30pm on select Sundays. Due to popular demand, and to allow more audience members from across Berkshire County to attend, the reading of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pipeline </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">will be presented in the auditorium at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown on Sunday, August 12, at 2:00pm.</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:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tickets are $25, which includes a post-show conversation and the opportunity to meet the cast and director. At No. Six Depot Roastery and Cafe refreshments will be available for purchase at the Café before the performance.</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);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-2018/</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);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE CAST</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);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Amber Chand</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Mehreen) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Motherhood Out Loud</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Elsewhere: extensive storytelling work, including her one woman show, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Searching For The Moon </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">performed to audiences both in the United States and internationally (Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge;  Octagon Theatre, Kent, England;  Global Leadership Summit, Palm Springs, California;  Mt. Holyoke Weissman Center, Massachusetts.)  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Et Cetera:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Born in Uganda of Indian parentage, Amber brings a rich global perspective to her work.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On-line:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://amberchand.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(205,92,92);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">amberchand.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);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Caitlin Davies</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Allisyn): </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Debut. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ocean State Theatre Company (Doubt: A Parable), Trinity Repertory Company (A Christmas Carol, Boing! A Musical Adventure), Capital Repertory Theatre (The Crucible), Peterborough Players (Little Women, The Secret Garden, The Winter’s Tale, Inherit the Wind, The Heiress), The Hanover Theatre (A Christmas Carol, The Here &amp), Now Theater (Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream). </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NYC Theater (selected):</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Hudson Warehouse (Pericles), Barefoot Theater Company (A Christmas Carol), Vox Theater Company (The Next War), The Workshop Theater Company (Thalassa), readings and workshops at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Lark Theatre, The Workshop Theater Company, The Barrow Group, and Wyrd Sisters Productions. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recordings: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Caitlin is an award-winning audiobook narrator and the voice of a number of popular audiobook series including House of Night, Penryn & The End of Days, Dragon Blood, and The Talon Saga. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Training:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> BA from Vassar College and an MFA in Acting from Brown/Trinity Rep. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Et. Cetera: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Caitlin is a founding member of Wyrd Sisters Productions, a NYC-based theater collective that produces workshops and readings with an emphasis on supporting female theater artists. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <a href="http://www.caitlindavies.com">www.caitlindavies.com</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(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abuzar Farrukh</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Muzaffar Khan, Raja Mahmood) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Debut. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: UMass Amherst: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,2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lign:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Blood Wedding </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Beggar) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Training</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: BA Theater, UMass Amherst. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Awards</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Ed Golden Acting Award </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Upcoming: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chester Theatre</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Disgraced</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Abe)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shawn Jain</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Mohammad Ijaaz, Abbas, Shahreyar Zasar) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Debut  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> American Repertory Theater (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Charlotte’s Web, Assistance, Our Town</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), Moscow Art Theater (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fear and Misery in the Third Reich</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), Constellation Theatre (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Fire and The Rain</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), Prince George’s County Shakespeare (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Twelfth Night</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), Source Festival in Washington, D.C. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Training:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> MFA in Acting from A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theater School </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> @shawnjain on twitter and</span><a href="http://www.shawnkjain.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(205,92,92);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> www.shawnkjain.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);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ron Komora</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Edward Evans) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Lloyd/Victor in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Holy Laughter. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tony Reilly in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Outside Mullingar </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">at The Majestic Theatre, Barry in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Empaths</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Gus in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Southern Comforts</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at The Lake Theatre, Mayor Meekly in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Unnecessary Farce</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at Chenango River Theatre, Parris in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Crucible</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at Hubbard Hall, plus 15 seasons at New York State Theatre Institute. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Film/TV</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Sheriff Andy Godbout in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deep in the Darkness </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Chiller Network), Harold Gilman in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Thing on the Doorstep, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the Plastic Surgeon in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Fountain of Death. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Training</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Masters in Dramatic Arts, The University of Maryland. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Awards</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: 2004 Audie Award for Excellence in Audiobook Narration.</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);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jay Sefton</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Ben) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Debut. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Majestic Theater: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Outside Mullingar (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anthony Reilly), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Million Dollar Quartet (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sam Phillips). Academy of Music Northampton: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sweet, Sweet, Spirit. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Silverthorne Theater: T</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">wo Rooms.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TV</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Wire, Grey’s Anatomy, Summerland, Providence, The Shield</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Awards</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: LA WEEKLY Award for best solo performance of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Most Mediocre Story Never Told.</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);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Katie Zaffrann</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Melissa) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Debut. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Merry Wives of Windsor</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Shakespeare & Co), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Disgraced</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Cape May Stage),  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">john & jen</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grey Gardens</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Free Fall Theatre), and the world premieres of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Flying</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Chenango River Theatre), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Between the Tigris and the Euphrates</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Poetic Theater), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In My Body</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Prince Music Theatre), and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Cappella Humana</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Delaware Theatre Company). Katie wrote/curated and stars in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marry Me… a Little: a wedding/anxiety cabaret</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, which has played NYC and San Francisco. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Film/TV</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:  Her award-winning musical short film NAKED, a whimsical romp about living life to the fullest, played at festivals worldwide and is now streaming on IndieFlix. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Radio/Recordings</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Katie has narrated a number of books available on Audible.com. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Training</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: BFA Musical Theatre, Syracuse University. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:</span><a href="http://katiezaffrann.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(205,92,92);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> http://katiezaffrann.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Et Cetera</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: She leads the informal group Reading the Kilroys NYC, a gathering of theatre-makers and -lovers at the intersection of great new work and gender parity. Proud member of Actors Equity Association.</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:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: SARAH BIERSTOCK</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);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sarah Bierstock </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(playwright):  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honor Killing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is actress Sarah Bierstock’s first play.  It will receive its world premiere this Spring at Florida Studio Theater (FST). It was one of three plays featured in the New Works Reading Series at the Athena Theater in Denver, CO (April, 2017), the New Play Festival at FST (Florida Studio Theatre) in May, 2017, and the PROJECT W Festival at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City (InProximity Theater) in June 2017. HONOR KILLING was the 2nd Runner up for The Woodward International Playwriting Prize at the University of New Hampshire, received Honorable Mention for the Bridge Initiative Playwriting Contest: Playwright of the Year Award, a Finalist for the 2017 Ashland New Play Festival, a Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (2017), a Semi- Finalist for the Premier Stages 2017 Play Festival, a Semi-Finalist for the Id Theaters 2017 Playwriting Conference, 1 of 29 in final consideration for the PlayPenn New Play Development Conference (2017), a Semi-Finalist for 2016 Eugene O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference, and a Semi-Finalist for Stage Left Theatre’s Playwriting Residency (Chicago, 2017). Sarah was honored to be commissioned by Center Stage (Baltimore) to participate in the “My America: She” project, which will be produced later in 2017. She is currently working on her second play, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grandma’s Room</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Training</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: BFA New York University and Bard College.</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:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: MOLLY MERRIHEW</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(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Molly Merrihew</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Director) is a theatre maker and arts administrator living and working full-time in the Berkshires. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Strategic Plan Committee Member, Artistic Associate 2014-2018, Fresh Takes Play Reading Series Curator & Producer 2014-2018, Director for </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Flora and Fauna</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Last Wife</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Water by the Spoonful</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Assistant Director for </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In Darfur</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How The World Began </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regional Theatre: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Molly currently works at Shakespeare & Company as the Publicity Director and previously worked at Florida Studio Theatre (Sarasota, FL) and Home Made Theatre (Saratoga Springs, NY).  Additional Directing credits include; </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">24 Hour Theatre Project </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(University at Albany), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In Motion</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival for the City of Pittsfield),  Shakespeare & Company: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Second Beam </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Joan Ackermann Weekend), M</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">arcus is Walking</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Joan Ackermann Weekend),</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The Red and The White</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Assistant Director for Jenna Ware), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Or,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Assistant Director for Alice Reagan), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Comedy of Errors</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Assistant Director for Taibi Magar) Regional: SDC Foundation Observership Class 2015 – 2016, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Charlotte’s Web</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and T</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">he Wizard of Oz</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Forest Lake Theatre) and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Rwandans’ Visit</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Lougheed Festival of the Arts at SUNY Potsdam).  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Training:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Boston University (MS Arts Administration), SUNY Potsdam (BA in Theatre and English). </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Connect with Molly on </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(58,58,58);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter:</span><a href="http://molly_merr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tions 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;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;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:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since 2010, WAM Theatre has donated more than $41,500 to thirteen 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><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.WAMTheatre.com</span></a></p></b><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><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"><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 style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><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></a></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:small">My gender pronouns: She/Her/Hers</span><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><span></span></span></span></span><br><br></span></a></span></font></div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px"><div><font color="#000000">Our 9th Season:</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-2018/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Fresh Takes</a> | <a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/alison-larkin-live/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Alison Larkin LIVE!</a> | <a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/wam-gala-2018/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">WAM Gala 2018</a> | <a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/ann/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">ANN</a><br></font></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);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></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br><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)" target="_blank"><span style="font-style:italic;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></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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