[Capdist-announce] PRESS RELEASE: WAM Theatre Announces Casting for Quiara Alegría Hudes’ "Water by the Spoonful"

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 WAM THEATRE ANNOUNCES CASTING

for Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful, next in Fresh Takes play
reading series


LENOX, MA (July 27, 2015)— WAM Theatre is pleased to announce the cast for
their reading of the Pulitzer prize-winning Water by the Spoonful by Quiara
Alegría Hudes, the next event in the 2015 Fresh Takes Play Reading Series.
This second year of Fresh Takes is proving as popular as the 2014 inaugural
season, with three sold-out readings already this year, proving that
Berkshire audiences continue to embrace contemporary plays written by women
and focusing on the unique stories of women and girls.

WAM Theatre will present the reading on Sunday, August 16 at 3:00 p.m. at No.
Six Depot Roastery and Café, 6 Depot Street in West Stockbridge, MA.

Director Molly Clancy, WAM Artistic Associate and Curator of the 2015 Fresh
Takes Series, explains the setting of the play:  "Water by the Spoonful
weaves parallel stories of a young Iraq veteran with the on-line lives of a
group of recovering addicts who meet regularly in a chatroom. The
boundaries of family and community are stretched across continents and
cyberspace, birth families splinter and online families collide.”

“The play captured me in its honest and artful storytelling,” Clancy
continues. “Ultimately, it’s a story about the struggle to find your place
in the world. It’s urgent and raw, it’s a place many of us have been, a
collision of family, community and self."

The cast of Water by the Spoonful features Gideon Bautista (Edith Can Shoot
Things and Hit Them, Company One) as Elliot Ortiz, Barby Cardillo (WAM
Education Associate & Teaching Artist; Romeo and Juliet, Pittsfield
Shakespeare in the Park) as Odessa Ortiz, Daniella Malave (The Awesome 80’s
Prom, Webster Hall) as Yazmin Ortiz, Zoe Laiz (Shakespeare and the Language
That Shaped the World, Shakespeare & Company) as Orangutan, Warren Jackson (In
Darfur at WAM; Macbeth at Alabama Shakespeare Festival) as
Chutes&Ladders, Kevin
Gardner (The Outgoing Tide at Curtain Call Theatre) as Fountainhead, and Tony
Pallone (Enemy of the People, Barrington Stage Company) as A Ghost /
Professor Aman. For detailed information on the cast go to:
http://www.wamtheatre.com/water-by-the-spoonful/

"I'm excited to bring this Pulitzer Prize-winning play to our Berkshire
Audiences,” said Clancy. “Especially with this cast of talented actors,
which includes some familiar faces our audiences will recognize from past
projects and others that are working with us for the first time."

Water by the Spoonful is the fourth presentation in the 2015 Fresh Takes
Play Reading Series, which gives a stage to ground-breaking works – which
have been successfully presented elsewhere but are new to our Berkshire
audiences – that tell women’s stories. Featuring local established and
emerging actors and directors, the series explores the work of provocative
contemporary voices. The series includes a post-reading discussion and will
encourage feedback on which plays audience members would like to see WAM
Theatre produce.

There are only 25 tickets available for this reading. Tickets are $20 and
can be purchased by calling 1-800-838-3006 or going online to
http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-play-reading-series-2015. Due to the
limited availability, advance booking is highly recommended. Food and drink
will be available for purchase at the café prior to the reading, which will
begin in the gallery at 3:00 p.m.

The 2015 Fresh Takes Play Reading series is curated by WAM Theatre’s
Artistic Associate Molly Clancy. Future readings include:

   -

   The Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría
   Hudes, directed by Molly Clancy (August 16, 2015 at 3:00 p.m.)
   -

   The Effect by Lucy Prebble, directed by WAM Artistic Director Kristen
   van Ginhoven (September 13, 2015 at 3:00 p.m.)

Find out more about the series at
http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-play-reading-series-2015

Quick Facts

Water by the Spoonful

by Quiara Alegría Hudes

Fresh Takes Play Reading

Sunday, August 16 at 3 pm, $20

at No. Six Depot Roastery and Café, 6 Depot Street, West Stockbridge, MA.

Ticket info: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1321184

Cast

Elliot Ortiz - Gideon Bautista

Odessa Ortiz - Barby Cardillo

Yazmin Ortiz – Daniella Malave

Orangutan – Zoe Laiz

Chutes&Ladders  – Warren Jackson

Fountainhead - Kevin Gardner

A Ghost / Professor Aman - Tony Pallone

Creative Team

Director: Molly Clancy

Stage Manager: Kristiana Cowcer

About the Playwright: Quiara Alegría Hudes

WAM Theatre debut. NYC Theatre: Hudes has authored musicals, most notably
the book for the Broadway musicalIn the Heights, which received the 2008
Tony Award for Best Musical, a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical,
and was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Plays/Musicals: Barrio Grrrl!; The
Elliot Plays; Water by the Spoonful; The Happiest Song Plays Last; 26
Mileswhich; Yemaya’s Belly. Venues: Hartford Stage Company, Goodman
Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
Alliance Theatre, Portland Stage Company, London’s Southwark Playhouse,
Puerto Rico’s Centro Bellas Artes, LA’s Pantages, Tokyo’s International
Forum, and Atlantis Productions in the Phillippines. Awards: Water by the
Spoonful won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. For the original
Off-Broadway incarnation In of Heights, Hudes won the Lucille Lortel and
Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical. Yemaya’s Belly, Hudes’ first
play which premiered at Portland Stage Company, received The Clauder Prize.
Training: B.A. in Music from Yale University and an M.F.A. in Playwriting
from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. Et Cetera:
Hudes’s honors include the United States Artists Fontanals Fellowship, the
Joyce Fellowship at the Goodman Theatre, the Aetna New Voices Fellowship at
Hartford Stage, the Roe Green Award at the Cleveland Playhouse, fellowships
at Sundance Theater Institute and the O’Neill Theater Center, and a
residency at New Dramatists. March 16, 2014 was named “Quiara Alegría Hudes
Day” in the City of Philadelphia and Mayor Rahm Emmanuel declared April 27,
2013 “Quiara Hudes Day” in Chicago. She was recently inducted into the
Central High School Hall of Fame–in the first group of women to receive
this honor since the school’s founding in 1836. Hudes is on the board of
Philadelphia Young Playwrights, which produced her first play in the tenth
grade. She now lives in New York with her husband and children.

About the Director: Molly Clancy

WAM Theatre: Artistic Associate, Fresh Takes Play Reading Series Curator,
Assistant Director for In Darfur, How The World Began and Seven Homeless
Mammoths Wander New England. Regional Theatre: Molly currently works at
Shakespeare & Company as the Publicity & Playbill Director and previously
worked at Florida Studio Theatre (Sarasota, FL) and Home Made Theatre
(Saratoga Springs, NY). Additional Directing: Charlotte’s Web and The
Wizard of Oz (Forest Lake Theatre) and The Rwandans’ Visit (Lougheed
Festival of the Arts at SUNY Potsdam). Training: SUNY Potsdam (BA in
Theatre and English).

About WAM Theatre

Based in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, WAM Theatre was co-founded in
2010 by Canadian director, actor, educator, and producer Kristen van
Ginhoven to create professional theatrical events for everyone, with a
focus on women theatre artists and/or stories of women and girls.

WAM Theatre also has a philanthropic mission, inspired by the book Half the
Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas
Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, and donates a portion of the proceeds from its
theatrical events to organizations that benefit women and girls.

Over the past five years, WAM Theatre has donated more than $15,000 to
seven nonprofit organizations and provided paid work to more than 100
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 www.WAMTheatre.com <http://www.wamtheatre.com/>

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