<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-984f5c0e-7fff-0dd6-601d-068c9ea797b4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:72pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">April 2, 2019</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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/wamtheatre2/albums/72157706468119025" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre2/albums/72157706468119025</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM THEATRE ANNOUNCES CASTING FOR FRESH TAKES READING OF </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NATIVE GARDENS</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LENOX, MA (April 2, 2019) — Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston, and the WAM team are proud announce the cast for their first Fresh Takes Reading of the season </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Native Gardens</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Karen Zacarías, directed by Estefanía Fadul, at 3pm on Saturday, May 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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“It’s wonderful to welcome our Co-Founder Leigh Strimbeck back for our 10th Anniversary season”, Kingston, curator and producer of the Fresh Takes series, exclaimed. “We're also thrilled to be back in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre at Shakespeare & Company for this reading and to have their Artistic Director, Allyn Burrows, join our 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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Burrows and Strimbeck headline an exciting cast that also include Stephen Pugh and Julissa Lee </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rodríguez</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> in 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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Director Estefanía Fadul last worked with WAM in 2016, directing a Fresh Takes reading of Bekah Brunstetter’s play </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Oregon Trail. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"I’m so excited to return to WAM to direct </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Native Gardens</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,” Fadul said. “In a time when there is so much division in our country, this play deconstructs some of the biases and privilege that thrive in even our most liberal communities. I look forward to diving into Karen's clever language and humor with this cast and sharing in this conversation with the Berkshires audience."</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">From the pen of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">one of the most produced playwrights in the nation, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Native Gardens </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">is a brilliant new comedy, where cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This reading of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Native Gardens</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is presented in memory of artist Wendy Rabinowitz, in honor of her tireless dedication to social justice and her commitment 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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The second Fresh Takes Play Reading - </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paradise</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Laura Maria Censabella - will take place on November 2. These readings correlate directly to the</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> two Mainstage productions - </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lady Randy</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Anne Undeland, running April 18-May 5; and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pipeline</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Dominique Morisseau, presented in partnership with Multicultural BRIDGE, which runs October 24-November 9. All performances and readings take place in Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein 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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Also this season WAM Education is launching a new Elder Ensemble program for women 65 and older, in tandem with the successful, established Teen Ensemble. Both Ensembles will debut their original devised theatre pieces at the WAM 10th Anniversary Gala on Wednesday, July 24 from 5:30-8:30 pm at the Stationery Factory in Dalton.</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Fresh Takes Reading of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Native Gardens</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> takes place on Saturday, May 4 at 3 pm, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">in Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, 70 Kemble St, Lenox, MA</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tickets are $25 and are available at the Shakespeare & Company </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Box Office Tuesday-Saturday 11 am -3 pm, by calling 413-637-3353 or online at </span><a href="https://www.wamtheatre.com/nativegardens/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.wamtheatre.com/nativegardens/</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information on </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Native Gardens</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, visit: </span><a href="https://www.wamtheatre.com/nativegardens/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.wamtheatre.com/nativegardens/</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information about WAM’s 10th Anniversary Season visit:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.wamtheatre.com/2019-season/">https://www.wamtheatre.com/2019-season/</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Quick Facts</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Native Gardens</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">by Karen Zacarías</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Directed by Estefanía Fadul</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saturday, May 4</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">70 Kemble St, 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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Featuring Allyn Burrows, Stephen Pugh, Julissa Lee </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rodríguez</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and Leigh Strimbeck</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tickets $25 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Available at the Shakespeare & Company </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Box Tuesday-Saturday 11 am -3 pm, by calling 413-637-3353 or online at </span><a href="https://www.wamtheatre.com/nativegardens/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.wamtheatre.com/nativegardens/</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: KAREN ZACARÍAS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: debut.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Other plays</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Book Club Play, Just Like Us</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (adapted from the book by Helen Thorpe), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Legacy of Light</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Steinberg-citation award), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mariela in the Desert</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Francesca Primus Award), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Sins of Sor Juana </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Helen Hayes Award), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(adapted from the book by Julia Alvarez).  Her Theatre for Young Audiences musicals with composer Debbie Wicks la Puma include: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jane of the Jungle</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Einstein is a Dummy, Looking for Roberto Clemente, Cinderella Eats Rice and Beans, Ferdinand the Bull</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Frida Libre.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Her musical </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chasing George Washington</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> premiered at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and went on a National Tour.  Her script was then adapted into a book by Scholastic with a forward by First Lady Michelle Obama.  Karen is currently working on an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence”, a drama for Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a Brazilian themed Oliver Twist musical: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oliverio: A Brazilian Twist on Dickens</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for The Kennedy Center.  She wrote the libretto for </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with Washington Ballet Artistic Director Septime Webre and is proud to be currently commissioned to write new plays for Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford’s Theater, Adventure Theater and First Stage.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Education:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> BA with distinction from Stanford University and a Masters in Creative Writing from Boston University.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Et Cetera:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Born in Mexico, Karen lives in Washington D.C. where she is the first playwright-in-residence at Arena Stage, has taught playwriting at Georgetown University and is the founder of Young Playwrights’ Theater. an award-winning theater company that teaches playwriting in local public schools in Washington, DC. YPT won the 2010 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the White House as one of the most innovative arts programs in the nation. The YPT curriculum is currently being used in public schools in DC, VA, MD, New Orleans, Detroit, and Texas and is published on Amazon as “Write to Dream”. On-line: </span><a href="http://www.karenzacarias.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(205,92,92);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.karenzacarias.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: ESTEFANÍA FADUL</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Oregon Trail (Fresh Takes 2016) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Select credits include Azul by Christina Quintana (Southern Rep, world premiere), The Same Day by Stefan Ivanov (Sfumato Theatre, Bulgaria, world premiere), Scissoring by Christina Quintana (INTAR, world premiere), Pranayama by James Anthony Tyler (Juilliard), Old Friends Who Just Met by Amy E. Witting (Strasberg/NYU, world premiere), so go the ghosts of méxico, part 1 by Matthew Paul Olmos (Repertorio Español), and Óye Oyá book by Rebecca Martínez and music by Rodolfo Ortega (Milagro, world premiere) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Film/TV:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Directing shadow on Doubt (CBS) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Training:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> B.A. Vassar College Awards: O’Neill National Directors Fellowship (2017-18), Bill Foeller Fellowship at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (2017), Drama League Directors Project (2015 Fall Fellow/2016 TV Fellow), Repertorio Español Van Lier Directing Fellowship (2014-15) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Et Cetera:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Member of the New Georges JAM, The Latinx Theatre Commons steering committee, the Civilian’s R&D Group, the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, and SDC. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://www.estefaniafadul.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.estefaniafadul.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Allyn Burrows</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Frank) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> debut. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Shakespeare and Company: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">King John </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(King John</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Much Ado</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About Nothing (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Benedick</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Henry V (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Henry V</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), A Midsummer Night’s Dream</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Oberon), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Henry IV, Part 1</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Hal), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Measure for Measure</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Angelo), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Betrayal</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Jerry), The </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">House of Mirth</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Lawrence Selden), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Love’s Labours Lost (Berowne)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Macbeth</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Macduff), and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Complete Works of Shakespeare</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Actors’ Shakespeare Project include </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Winter’s Tale</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Leontes), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Henry VI Part 2</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Gloucester and Jack Cade)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Henry VIII ( </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Henry VIII</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">),</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Twelfth Night (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Malvolio</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hotspur and Pistol</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Timon of Athens</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Timon), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All’s Well that Ends Well (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Parolles), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">King Lear</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Kent), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Measure for Measure (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Duke Vincentio), and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Richard III (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Duke of Clarence).  The Huntington Theatre: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Can You Forgive Her</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. The Underground Railway Theatre: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Breaking the Code. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lyric Stage: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shipwrecked</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Merrimack Repertory Theater: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oceanside</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Seafarer</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pursuit of Happiness, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Homecoming</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Five by Tenn</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, at Speakeasy Stage. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Directing:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company, former Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston for 8 years, directing credits there include </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Romeo & Juliet , Pericles,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Jon Lipsky’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Living in Exile</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Richard II</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Tempest</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. He has worked at a number of theaters around the country, including Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, The American Conservatory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Denver Center, and The Walnut St. Theatre. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TV/Film: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Television credits include </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Broad Squad, Law and Order</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Law and Order: Criminal Intent</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Against the Law</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and he can be seen in the films </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Company Men,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Julie & Julia, and Manchester by the Sea.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Awards:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> He was the 2006 Elliot Norton Award recipient for </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Homecoming</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">King Lear</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Five by Tenn </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and a 2011 IRNE Award Winner for </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Breaking the Code</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Off-Broadway:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> credits include </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bug</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Killer Joe</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Louis Slotin Sonata</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Closetland</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stephen Pugh</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Pablo) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">debut. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Orlando Fringe Festival: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Meet the Replacements, Autobahn</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Orlando Repertory: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Madagascar the Musical, Newsies, Curious George</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Garden Theater: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Into the Woods, Singing in the Rain,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Orlando Shakespeare: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">O-Town</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Baystreet Players: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Phantasmagoria</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Universal Orlando: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Grinch, Beetlejuice, Disasters</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Dr. Phillips Center of the Arts: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Giver, Homer P Figg</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Education: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Seminole State College.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Julissa Lee Rodríguez</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Tania) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> debut.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  Julissa is a teaching artist with Enchanted Circle Theater, a member of Real Live Theatre Company based in the Pioneer Valley and an associate artist with Serious Play! Theatre Ensemble with whom she has trained and toured to NYC, London, and Edinburgh, Scotland.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Music:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> She is half of the teaching and performing percussion duo called PUERTOMINICANA. Incorporating theatre, dance, and drums, the duo focuses on Afro-Caribbean Latino cultural roots and rhythms as a way to connect deeply with audiences and participants, raise vibrations, uplift the people and empower women and girls. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Education: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Associate of Arts Degree in Fine Arts as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and Dance from Trinity College.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Etc: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Based in Springfield, MA, Julissa is fiercely committed to using the arts to promote positive youth development and empowerment and has been doing so for the past ten years. She has taught and performed at various venues and conferences as well as many educational institutions and youth programs all over New England, in New York City, including at the famed Nuyorican Poets Café, and as far as South Africa.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Leigh Strimbeck</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Virginia) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Co-Founder & Board Member Emeritus, Joan in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Melancholy Play. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsewhere: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Understudied Tina Packer in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mother of the Maid</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Shakespeare & Company); Kate Keller </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All My Sons </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Voice (Theatre Woodstock); Beth in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tribes</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Theatre Institute at Sage); Lady Macduff in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Macbeth </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Saratoga Shakespeare): Clare in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kingdom of the Shore</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (The Rep Albany). Film/TV: Lifetime Movie, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Off the Rails</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; Feature films –</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fighting for Freedom</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (across from Bruce Dern); </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Little Bi Peep; Uncivil Liberties; </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Short,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Key Transitions. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Etc: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">director & actor with Berkshire Playwrights Lab Radius Festival; member of Voice Theatre; associate member Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble; Communications Coach NY State Public Defenders Association.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Training: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bennington College & NYU, BFA; Master Classes Tadashi Suzuki, Toga Mura, Japan; Anne Bogart, Actors Center, NYC SAG/AFTRA. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Reel and other credits, voice overs, commercial, etc.</span><a href="http://leighstrimbeck.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(205,92,92);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> leighstrimbeck.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM 10th Anniversary Sponsors</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM’s 2019 sponsors include Adams Community Bank</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Annie Selke, Berkshire Gas, Berkshire Hand to Shoulder Center, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Berkshire Magazine, Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Blue Q, Blue Spark Financial, Brabson Library & Educational Foundation, Canyon Ranch, Chez Nous, Custom Business Solutions, Dr, Jay Wise, DDS and Dr. Casey Jones, DMD, The Dylandale Foundation, Frankie's Ristorante Italiano, Greylock Federal Credit Union, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace, Haven Cafe and Bakery, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Health Professional Coaching, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Heller & Robbins, Interprint, J.H. Maxymillian, Inc., Lee Bank, Maggie Barry, NEPR, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Only in My Dreams Events, Onyx Specialty Papers, OUTPOST, RB Design Co., The Rogovoy Report, The Rookwood Inn, Salisbury Bank, T Square Design Studio, Toole Insurance, and a. von schlegell & co.</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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WAM Theatre is also supported in part by grants from the Alford-Egremont Cultural Council, Cultural Council of Northern Berkshires, Hinsdale-Peru Cultural Council, Lenox Cultural Council, New Marlborough Cultural Council, Otis Cultural Council, Richmond Cultural Council, Sandisfield Cultural Council, Sheffield Cultural Council, Washington Cultural Council, West Stockbridge Cultural Council– local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LADY RANDY is sponsored in part by an anonymous donor and PIPELINE is sponsored in part by Carolyn Butler. </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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT WAM THEATRE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Based in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, WAM Theatre is celebrating its 10th anniversary of being a place 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><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inspired by the book </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since 2010, WAM Theatre has provided paid work to more than 200 theatre artists and donated more than $56,500 to fifteen local and global organizations taking action for women and girls in areas such as girls education, teen pregnancy prevention, sexual trafficking awareness, midwife training and more. 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-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">###</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" 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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