Interview with Leigh Strimbeck, Director of ‘Samsara’
We are so happy to welcome WAM Co-Founder Leigh Strimbeck back to the fold to direct our August 21 Fresh Takes Play Reading of Samsara by Lauren Yee. Currently, Leigh is the Artistic Director of the Theatre Institute at Sage (TIS); an artist-in-residence in the theater program at Russell Sage College; and an associate member […]
Interview with Rachel Siegel – Writer and Performer of “Special”
March 18-20, 2016 WAM Theatre is teaming up with playwright and actress Rachel Siegel to present a workshop production of her one-woman show Special, at the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre. The show is based both on Rachel’s own experience as the mother of a son with Down syndrome, and her interviews with mothers of […]
Follow Up Interview with Susie Weekes, “In Darfur” Beneficiary
In 2014 the beneficiary of our production of In Darfur, Winter Miller’s powerful drama about the impact of war on the people in the northeastern African nation of Sudan, was the thirteen women employed as housemothers at Mother of Peace Orphanage in Ilovo, South Africa. Our Berkshire connection was Susie Walker Weekes, who explained to […]
Interview with Catherine Trieschmann, “Holy Laughter” Playwright
With less than a week to go until rehearsals start for our 2015 MainStage production of Holy Laughter we sat down with playwright Catherine Trieschmann to get a behind the scenes look at the play. Born in Athens, Georgia, and now a resident of a small town in Kansas, Catherine has received the L. Arnold […]
Interview with Yvonne Perry – Actress in upcoming reading of “The Effect”
Yvonne Perry, will be appearing as Dr. Lorna James in our final 2015 Fresh Takes Play Reading of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect, directed by Kristen van Ginhoven, on Sunday, September 13. A proud member AEA and SAG-AFTRA, Yvonne is a sought-after actress, teacher, and voice artist with a successful career in theatre, film, and television. […]
Interview with Daniela Malave – Actress in upcoming reading of “Water by the Spoonful”
Daniela Malave will appear as Yasmin Ortiz in our next Fresh Takes Play Reading of Water by the Spoonful on August 16 at 3 pm at No. Six Depot Roastery and Café in West Stockbridge, MA. Daniela is a bilingual Equity actress with extensive experience in theater, tv, film, voice over, commercial and print work […]
Interview with Kristine Hazzard, 2011 Beneficiary
Our 2011 production of The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls, enabled WAM Theatre to donate $1,750 to The Berkshire United Way Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative! Over the past five years that project has grown to become the Face the Facts Coalition, still helmed by Kristine Hazzard, the President and CEO of Berkshire United […]
Kristen In Stratford Blog Interview
WAM Theatre Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven has spent the last few months working at the Stratford Festival of Canada, the largest classical repertory theatre in North America. Ever since its first season in 1953, the Stratford Festival has set benchmarks in the theatre world for the production of the classics through to contemporary plays. […]
An interview with Jacqueline E. Lawton, author of Noms de Guerre
Jacqueline E. Lawton, author of our June 14 Fresh Takes reading “Noms de Guerre”, was named one of the top 30 national leading black playwrights by Arena Stage’s American Voices New Play Institute . She received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. […]
Summer of 100 Dinners Interview
This year, WAM Theatre has a new fundraising initiative up its sleeve. With WAM’s main fundraising benefit event set to happen on July 15 at Hilltop Orchards in Richmond, WAM Theatre announces their other main 2015 fundraising project- the “Summer of 100 Dinners.” Here Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven and “Summer of 100 Dinners” Benefit […]