[Capdist-auditions] An Actual Audition Announcement from WAM Theatre!

[Gail Burns]

February 5, 2015


Contact: Gail Burns, Marketing and Publicity Associate

www.wamtheatre.com <http://www.wamtheatre.com/#_blank>

pr at wamtheatre.com; 518.243.9627

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Call for Actor Submissions Now Open

for WAM Theatre’s Fresh Takes Play Reading Series


Lenox, MA [February 5, 2015] - WAM Theatre has put out a call for actor
submissions for Fresh Takes, a series of five play readings that will take
place on select Sundays between April and September. Curated by WAM
Theatre’s Artistic Associate Molly Clancy, Fresh Takes will give 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
will explore 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.The readings
will be held in the gallery at No. Six Depot Roastery and Café at 6 Depot
Street in West Stockbridge, MA.


WAM invites interested theatre artists to submit a resume and headshot to
Hope Rose Kelly, Company Administrator at hope at wamtheatre.com by March 21,
2015 with ‘Submission: Fresh Takes’ in the subject line. Please include the
readings for which you are available in the body of your e-mail.


Participation in the reading series is voluntary, and actors must have
experience with and be comfortable at cold readings. Equity actors are
invited to perform via Equity waiver. Each reading will rehearse on the
Saturday prior to the performance. Actors must be available for both the
rehearsal and reading date.


Information on all five shows is below, for casting breakdown and more
information visit:
http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-casting-breakdown-2015/


 April 19, 2015

Silence

by Moira Buffini

directed by Tod Randolph


A bride and groom forge a pact to keep a secret in this dark comedy where
Shakespeare's cross dressers meet Monty Python's blithering knights. At the
end of the first millennium, Princess Ymma of Normandy was forced by
England's King Ethelred to marry a young Viking, Lord Silence of Cumbria.
The events conspire to send them dashing through the mud of England fleeing
an enraged despot's murderous rampage. Winner of a Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize and sparkling with deliberate clashes of period and style, WAM
Theatre embarks on a journey of power, identity, gender and desire.


May 17, 2015

The Tall Girls

by Meg Miroshnik

directed by Kelly Galvin


Welcome to Poor Prairie, the dusty, desolate town where
fifteen-and-a-half-year-old Jean has been exiled as caretaker for her
wild-child cousin, Almeda. It’s a grim, dangerous place to eke out an
existence as a teenage girl—until an out-of-towner arrives with a brand-new
basketball in tow. As the town’s girls come together to form a team set on
making it out of Poor Prairie, a murky committee of townspeople threatens
to stamp out girls' sports altogether. Written by award-winning playwright
Meg Miroshnik this play dramatizes issues important to the WAM Theatre
community; the fight for class, education and gender equality.


June 14, 2015

Part of the Lift E’vry Voice Festival

Noms de Guerre

by Jacqueline E. Lawton

directed by Jayne Atkinson


Mira is a rising star in the Republican Party, but her campaign against
reproductive rights puts her at odds with her best friend, Jude, an
award-winning journalist. When Jude discovers that Mira’s war hero husband
Douglas is linked to a massacre of Afghan civilians, Mira is thrown into a
whirlwind of political intrigue and must decide whether to hold on to her
career or save her husband. WAM Theatre presents this haunting, lyrical and
passionate story nominated for a 2014 Kilroy, and written by Jacqueline E.
Lawton who was named one of the top 30 national leading black playwrights
by Arena Stage’s American Voices New Play Institute.


August 16, 2015

Water by the Spoonful

by Quiara Alegría Hudes

directed by Molly Clancy


Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling
to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering
addicts keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of
family and community are stretched across continents and cyberspace, birth
families splinter and online families collide. A winner of the 2012
Pulitzer Prize, WAM Theatre invites the Berkshire audience to partake in
this artful and heartfelt meditation on life on the brink of redemption.


September 13, 2015

The Effect

by Lucy Prebble

directed by Kristen van Ginhoven

In this clinical romance two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to
take part in an experimental drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational
pull of attraction and love they manage to throw the trial off-course, much
to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving and
perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity, neurology and
the limits of medicine. WAM Theatre presents this vibrant theatrical
exploration of fate, loyalty and the inevitability of physical attraction.
Written by Lucy Prebble, a finalist for the 2013-2014 Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize, the play garnered the Critics' Circle Award for Best Play.


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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Gail M. Burns

*Marketing + Publicity Associate*
www.WAMTheatre.com <http://www.wamtheatre.com/>
413-458-4246

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