[Capdist-announce] PRESS RELEASE: WAM Fresh Takes Reading of "The Droll" June 4

[Gail Burns]

May 23, 2017

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WAM Theatre Fresh Takes Play Reading of The Droll Set for June 4

LENOX, MA (May 23, 2017) -  The WAM Theatre 2017 Fresh Takes Play reading
series continues with The Droll by Meg Miroshnik at 3:30 pm on Sunday, June
4 at No. Six Depot Roastery and Café in West Stockbridge. WAM Artistic
Director Kristen van Ginhoven will direct, and acclaimed local professional
actor and theatre educator Jennie M. Jadow is co-producing and will be
reading one of the roles.

The Droll is a new play about the end of theatre. Through the lens of 17th
Century Puritan England, the play explores artists living lives of
creativity when doing so was a crime. The protagonist, young Nim Dullyn,
seeks to join an underground theatrical troupe being pursued by the
controlling and unjust government Roundheads - who deem theater an
abomination - as they risk everything to perform one last Hamlet against
all odds. The Droll is a love letter to actors and an exploration of art
and politics. Through this reading, WAM asks our audience: What would you
risk for your passions, your art?

The cast includes David Adkins (Berkshire Theatre Group/WAM’s The Bakelite
Masterpiece) as James Killingsworth; Gregory Boover (Shakespeare &
Company’s 4000 Miles) as Nim Dullyn; Thomas Brazzle (Shakespeare & Company’s
Merchant of Venice) as Thomas Dread Rosey; Rory Hammond (WAM’s Silence) as
Doll Cutpurse; Jennie M. Jadow (WAM’s Photograph 51) as Margaret
Killingsworth; Maizy Scarpa (Hubbard Hall’s King Lear) as Roundhead; and
Christopher Tucci (Kickwheel’s Passage) as Williem Rifel.

“The Droll is a play that has captured my attention and imagination for
quite some time,” said Jadow, explaining why she wanted to co-produce this
reading. “Meg Miroshnik's work holds much that is fascinating to me; and
this idea of awakening a child to the power of theatre, so that a future
generation can carry forth an awareness of culture and art, even in the
darkest of times, and, potentially, at great personal cost, highlights for
me the active role of the artist in our society.”

There are only 30 tickets available for this reading reading. Tickets are
$20, which includes a post-show conversation and the opportunity to meet
the cast and director. Refreshments will be available for purchase at the
Café. The 2017 Fresh Takes Series is generously supported by No. Six Depot
and the Dramatists Guild Fund.

The 2017 Fresh Takes Series concludes on Friday, August 1 at 5 pm with a
special free reading of Smart People by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by
Kristen van Ginhoven, hosted by the Williamstown Theatre Festival at the
Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA.

AT A GLANCE

June 4, 2017

The Droll

by Meg Miroshnik

directed by Kristen van Ginhoven

with

David Adkins as James Killingsworth

Greg Boover as Nim Dullyn

Thomas Brazzle as Thomas Dread Rosey

Rory Hammond as Doll Cutpurse

Jennie M. Jadow as Margaret Killingsworth

Maizy Scarpa as Roundhead

Christopher Tucci as Williem Rifel

http://www.wamtheatre.com/the-droll/

Fresh Takes Play Reading Series

Curated by WAM Theatre’s Artistic Associate Molly Clancy and usually hosted
by No. Six Depot Roastery and Café on 6 Depot Street in West Stockbridge,
MA, on select Sundays at 3:30 pm.

There are only 30 tickets available per reading at No. Six Depot. Tickets
are $20, which includes a post-show conversation and the opportunity to
meet the cast and director. Refreshments will be available for purchase at
the Café.

Please note all sales are final. No refunds available. Patrons may exchange
tickets up to 48 hours before curtain– not including special event
one-night performances. No refunds or exchanges for already discounted
tickets.

For tickets and more information visit:

http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-2017/

ABOUT THE CAST

David Adkins (James Killingsworth): WAM Theatre: The Bakelite Masterpiece, 24
Hour Theatre Project (2016). Elsewhere: David is an actor, writer,
director, and made his Broadway debut at The National Actor’s Theatre. He
has worked off-Broadway – Manhattan Theater Club, Primary Stages, Women’s
Project, Aquila, Pearl – has worked extensively in resident theaters across
the country, and has performed in over 20 productions at the Berkshire
Theatre Group where he is an Artistic Associate. His focus now is
television where he has recently guest starred on Blacklist, Homeland, Good
Wife, Elementary, The Americans, and others.

Greg Boover (Nim Dullyn): WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes Reading: Silence.
Elsewhere: Greg has worked as an actor, musician and educational artist at
Shakespeare & Company since 2012, most recently directing in the Fall
Festival of Shakespeare and performing on the northeast tours of Hamlet, Romeo
& Juliet, Macbeth & Twelfth Night. He has also worked regionally with
Theater at Monmouth, Hampshire Shakespeare Company, Berkshire Playwrights
Lab and in NYC at Looking Glass Theatre. Training: University of MA Amherst
(BA, theater), University of Kent, Canterbury. Shakespeare & Co. 2017
January Intensive. Et cetera: Catch Greg in 4000 Miles at Shakespeare &
Company this season! Artwork on Instagram @booverdoodles
<http://booverdoodles/>

Thomas Brazzle (Thomas Dread Rosey): WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes Reading: Grand
Concourse. Elsewhere: Thomas has worked regionally for The Guthrie Theater,
The Alley Theatre, TheatreSquared, Portland Stage, Connecticut Repertory
Theatre, and Shakespeare and Company. Most recently he was seen as Edmund
in King Lear at The Guthrie . He has also worked in New York with Old Hat
Theatre Co., Voyage Theatre Company, The Brewing Dept., and The Hudson
Warehouse. Film: A Night in the City, Absent Training:  Stephen F. Austin
State University (BFA) and University of Connecticut (MFA). Online:
www.thomasbrazzle.com Et cetera: Thomas is excited to return to WAM!

Rory Hammond (Doll Cutpurse): WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes 2015: Silence. NYC
Theatre: Pericles (SoHo Rep), Measure for Measure (Circle in the Square),
Bachelorette by Lesley Headland (Circle in the Square), John Patrick
Shanley’s Where’s My Money (Cherry Lane Theatre), and The Scarlet Letter
starring Marisa Tomei. Berkshire Theatre: Shakespeare & Company: Taming of
the Shrew, King John, Richard III, Merry Wives ofWindsor, Off the Map, Much
Ado About Nothing, Merchant of Venice, and Dibble Dance. The Wharton Salon
at the Mount: Autres Temp, Xingu, and Summer. TV Credits: Dr. Pepper
commercials circa 1998. Training: At Shakespeare & Company her entire life
starting with Young Company and ending with a summer in the Summer
Performing Institute (SPI). Graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre
School, New York City. Et Cetera: Rory is a founding member of Animus
Theatre Company in New York City. Visit the Animus website at
www.animustheatre.org

Jennie M. Jadow (Margaret Killingsworth, Co-Producer of The Droll Fresh
Takes:Play Reading Series) WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes: Play Reading
Series of Photograph
51; Everywoman, A Staged Reading. Regional: It’s A Wonderful Life – The
Radio Play, King Henry V, Servant of Two Masters, Les Faux Pas, Learned
Ladies, As you Like It, The Amorous Quarrel, Les Liaisons Dangereuse,
Scapin, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare & Company,
MA); Funny Girl, Cyrano De Bergerac (Barrington Stage Company, MA); Camelot,
Wilder, Wilder (Berkshire Theatre Group); Historias (Jacob’s Pillow); Babes
in Toyland (Heights Players); Pirates of Penzance (Gallery Players); Diamonds
and Jewels Cabaret (92nd St Y). Education: BFA, New York University’s Tisch
School of the Arts; MA Antioch University. Et. Cetera: Jennie works as part
of Shakespeare and Company’s nationally recognized education team in Lenox,
MA.

Maizy Scarpa (Roundhead): WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes: Grand Concourse (Emma);The
Tall Girls (Almeda); 24 Hour Theatre Project: Cirque Du Dismay (playwright)
Elsewhere: La MaMa (Political Snorts); Barrington Stage (To Kill a
Mockingbird); Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park (TheTempest, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream), Hubbard Hall (Wayward Home, Ondine, King Lear, Of Mice and
Men), Playwright: WAYWARD HOME: A Musical Folktale (Opera House Arts,
Hubbard Hall); Cirque Du Dismay (WAM, Berkshire Playwrights Lab); Pandora
Shakes Things Up (Berkshire Playwrights Lab) Adults (Women’s Shorts); Strange
New Planet (NYU/Tisch); A Play Where Nothing Happens
(Shakespeare&Co.Fringe); Training: NYU/Tisch, Shakespeare & Company. Online:
waywardhome.weebly.com & maizyscarpa.com

Christopher Tucci (Williem Rifel): WAM Theatre: Debut. Elsewhere: A recent
transplant to the Berkshires, Chris was just in BPL’s Radius Festival and
Kickwheel’s Passage. Other work includes The Whipping Man with NPT, Gallery
Players and at the Columbia Arts Festival in Maryland, All My Sons at The
Warner Theatre and Random Acts of Shakespeare at The Geffen Playhouse and
Theatricum Botanicum. Film/TV: The Rick (Cannes Film Festival), Contemplating
Annie (LA International Film Festival). Training: MFA, U.C.L.A.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: MEG MIROSHNIK

WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes Reading Series 2015: The Tall Girls. Plays: The
Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls; The Droll {A Stage-Play about the END of
Theatre}; The Tall Girls; Old Actress; and an adaptation of the libretto
for Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki. Venues: La Jolla Playhouse,
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Center Theatre Group, South Coast
Rep, the McCarter Theatre Center, Yale Rep, Alliance Theatre, Yale Rep, the
Kennedy Center, Lark New Play Development Center, Chicago Opera Theater,
the Moscow Playwright and Director Center, Washington Ensemble Theatre,
Circle X, The Wilma Theater, Perishable Theatre, WordBRIDGE Playwrights
Laboratory, and One Coast Collaboration. Awards: She is the recipient of a
2012 Whiting Award. Her play The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls was a
finalist for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn prize and winner of the
2011-2012 Alliance/Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award. Training: MFA in
Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama where she studied with Paula
Vogel. Et Cetera: Meg hails from Minneapolis and currently lives in Los
Angeles, where she is a member of the Playwrights Union and The Kilroys
<http://www.thekilroys.org/>.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: KRISTEN van GINHOVEN

WAM Theatre: The Bakelite Masterpiece, In Darfur (New England Premiere),
Emilie (New England Premiere), The Old Mezzo (World Premiere), The Attic,
The Pearls and Three Fine Girls and Melancholy Play Elsewhere:
Waxworks (Williams
College), The Whale (Adirondack Theatre Festival), 10 Minute Play Festival
(Barrington Stage Company), Petticoats of Steel (Capital Repertory
Theatre), Footloose (Cohoes Music Hall), Children’s Hour (Siena
College), Vendetta
Chrome (Emerson College). Selected assistant directing: The Physicists,
42nd Street (Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada), Two Men of
Florence (Huntington
Theatre) Sleuth, Absurd Person Singular (Barrington Stage Company).
Training: Dalhousie University (BA), Queen’s University (BEd), Emerson
College (MA). Et cetera: Kristen is an associate member of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers and a theatre artist for the
International Schools Theatre Association. She was a member of the 2013
Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and is a member of the Michael Langham
Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festival of Canada.
Kristen is the co-founder and Artistic Director of WAM Theatre. Website:
www.WAMTheatre.com <http://www.wamtheatre.com/>

OUR SEASON SPONSORS

WAM Theatre is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support
from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities; and by the Massachusetts Cultural Council
Cultural. Our 2017 sponsors include Adams Community Bank, the
Appelbaum-Kahn Foundation, Berkshire Magazine, Berkshire Sterile
Manufacturing, Blue Q, Brabson Library & Educational Foundation, Canyon
Ranch, Custom Business Solutions, The Dylandale Foundation, The Feigenbaum
Foundation, Futures Education, the Garden Gables Inn, Greylock Federal
Credit Union, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace, In Touch Printing, International
Schools Theatre Association, Interprint, Dr. Jay Wise, DDS & Dr. Casey
Jones, DMD,  Lee Bank, Massachusetts Cultural Council, MAXYMILLIAN
Technologies, Methuselah Bar and Lounge, No. Six Depot Roastery and Café,
RB Design Co., Redfin, The Rookwood Inn, Rouge Restaurant & Bistro, The Dr.
Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation, T Square Design Studio, Toole
Insurance, and a. von schlegell & co.

WAM Theatre is also supported in part by grants from the Alford-Egremont
Cultural Council, Dalton Cultural Council, Lenox Cultural Council, New
Marlborough Cultural Council, Pittsfield Cultural Council, Cultural Council
of Northern Berkshires , Otis Cultural Council, Richmond Cultural Council,
Sandisfield Cultural Council, Stockbridge Cultural Council, Washington
Cultural Council, and West Stockbridge Cultural Council – local agencies
that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

ABOUT WAM THEATRE

Based in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, WAM Theatre is Where Arts and
Activism Meet. The company was co-founded in 2010 by Canadian director,
actor, educator, and producer Kristen van Ginhoven. WAM’s vision is to
create opportunity for women and girls through the mission of theatre as
philanthropy.

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

Since 2010, WAM Theatre has donated more than $32,500 to twelve nonprofit
organizations and provided paid work to more than 200 theatre artists. In
addition to the main stage productions and special events, WAM Theatre’s
activities include a comprehensive educational outreach program and the
Fresh Takes Play Reading Series. For more information, visit
www.WAMTheatre.com

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Gail M. Burns

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