Spotlight Series Interview with New WAM Board Member Megan Sandberg-Zakian, Director of THE NEW GALILEOS
WAM’s Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston interviews WAM Board Member Megan Sandberg-Zakian about directing The New Galileos, as well as her autobiography and general philosophy on storytelling articulated in her book, “There Must be Happy Endings: on a Theater of Optimism and Honesty”
WAM Theatre Celebrates Pride Month with BRIGHT HALF LIFE at MASS MoCA
Performance on Sunday June 5 LENOX, MA (May 11, 2022) — WAM Theatre joins the Berkshire Community in celebrating Pride Month with a Fresh Takes Play Reading of Bright Half Life by Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Nominated writer Tanya Barfield (The Call, Blue Door). The play is directed by Gina Kaufmann (Professor of Performance and […]
Snapshots from the 2022 Teen Ensemble
by Talya Kingston This April school break, seven teenagers joined two WAM Teaching Artists (myself and Tatiana Godfrey) at The Foundry in West Stockbridge for an intensive week of collaborative art making. The paid experience brought together a group of diverse students from across the region. Inspired by the visionary works produced within the genres […]
Statement Regarding the Supreme Court ROE Leak
May 4, 2022 WAM Theatre exists in order to center and uplift the stories and empowerment of women and girls. Like you, we are horrified by the leaked document from the Supreme Court that challenges our autonomy over our own bodies and would take us back to a time before Roe v Wade. The effects […]
Spotlight Series Interview with NEW GALILEOS Playwright Amy Berryman
Tatiana Godfrey (WAM Theatre Dramaturg) interviews Amy Berryman, author of THE NEW GAlILEOS, the first in our 2022 series of Fresh Takes Play Readings. Join director Megan Sandberg-Zakian and the cast – Alika Hope, KD McTeigue, Nicole Orabona, and Kristen van Ginhoven – at the Berkshire Museum on Sunday, May 1 at 2 pm. Click below to […]
Inaugural Spotlight Video
This inaugural Spotlight video hosted by Board Member Nicole M. Young-Martin gives you the inside scoop to our season selection process with Kristen van Ginhoven (WAM Theatre Artistic Director), Talya Kingston (WAM Theatre Associate Artistic Director), and Tatiana Godfrey (WAM Theatre Dramaturg).
Fresh Takes Play Reading of THE NEW GALILEOS Opens WAM’s 2022 Season
Performance on Sunday May 1 LENOX, MA (April 13, 2022) — WAM Theatre begins its 13th season with a Fresh Takes Play Reading of The New Galileos by Amy Berryman (Walden Theaterworks Hartford & London’s West End), directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian (WAM’s Holy Laughter; Skeleton Crew at Huntington Theatre Co.) on Sunday, May 1, at […]
Can You Help WAM Find a New Office Space?
WAM is looking for a new home-base! Can you help us find it? During the pandemic we made the decision for our team to work remotely, and we moved out of our Lenox office space/s. Working remotely helped WAM remain flexible, and enabled us to move through the pandemic without laying off our hardworking staff […]
WAM Welcomes Four New Board Members
LENOX, MA (March 22, 2022) — Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Managing Director Molly Merrihew, and the WAM Board are pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to their Board of Directors. Donna Haghighat, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, Kim Stauffer, and Nicole M. Young-Martin will be joining Board President Wendy Healey, and members Erica […]
WAM Theatre Announces 2022 Season
Gathering Around Ground-Breaking Stories of Empowerment LENOX, MA (March 3, 2022) Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston, and the WAM team today announced a 2022 season centering different versions of empowerment through four groundbreaking theatrical stories and a cabaret benefit performance that will take place in venues across the region […]