The girls of Heroic Girlz-A Guest Blog
The four fabulous young ladies below were all part of ‘Heroic Girlz’, which started as a stage play. It is now a narrative short film. In it, the girls journey to the past to explore their futures by becoming four historical American women heroes: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Louisa May Alcott, and Amelia Earhart. […]
The ability of theatre to help forge a positive identity- Guest Blog
Written by SuEllen Hamkins, psychiatrist, mother, and co-author of The Mother-Daughter Project: How mothers and daughters can band together, beat the odds, and thrive through adolescence. Last night, I was again reminded how theatre—when it lets a young person give voice to her beliefs and passions through performance—can help forge a powerful positive identity like […]
Why WAM now?
Wear the shirt. Use the soap. Burn the candle. These are three rules I came up with for myself over a decade ago and they serve me well. For too long I had watched worthy women receive gifts, and carefully set them aside for the day when the event was important enough or when they […]
Inspiring Women in or near the Berkshires: The list gets longer and longer….
Having lived in the Berkshires of Massachusetts for just over a year and having spent some of that time in Boston, meeting and working with very talented women theatre artists there, I feel I’ve barely scratched the surface of the pool of inspiring women artists that live in or near the Berkshires. Last year around […]