Soldier On Painting
On January 24 Nathan Hanford, an artist-in-residence with our 2017 beneficiary Soldier On Women’s Program, stopped by the WAM office and dropped off an amazing gift for us – this beautiful painting by Ashley, a resident of the Program. Nathan explained that Ashley started working on this painting, entitled Hummingbird, as soon as she got […]
Soldier On Interview
In keeping with WAM’s double philanthropic mission, 25% of our box office receipts from our production of The Last Wife will be donated to the Soldier On Women’s Program to help support programming for the past and present residents of their 16-unit transitional housing facility in Northampton, MA, as they transition to independent or family […]
Interview with Maria Rundle, Executive Director of Flying Cloud Institute
At the start of this year, Maria Rundle took over as Executive Director of Flying Cloud Institute in Great Barrington following the retirement of the Founding Director, Jane Burke. Originally based in New Marlborough, MA, Flying Cloud Institute was founded in 1980 as a center for community education. In 1983 FCI shifted its focus to […]
Taking action in ways we believe will make a difference
Taking action in ways we believe will make a difference Written by Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven as part of her ‘What’s my #vision’ series. March 18, 2017 March has been an emotional month so far. If I’m honest, the new year has been an emotional one so far. With the current political climate, there’s […]
Interview with Brenda Oppermann, Education Outreach Scholar
Brenda Oppermann is a senior advisor, researcher and program manager for military and civilian organizations including: the US Army, US Navy, US Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nations (UN), NATO, US Institute of Peace (USIP), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and various non-governmental organizations (NGOs). She works primarily in fragile […]
Celebrities Talk Gender Parity: Interview with Jayne Atkinson
Jayne Atkinson kicks off WAM’s new ‘Celebrities talk Gender Parity’ snapshot blog interview series. WAM Theatre has been delighted to have producer, director, Tony-nominated actress, and Berkshire neighbor Jayne Atkinson on our Advisory Board for the past three years. When her busy schedule allows, Jayne gets in the trenches with us, co-producing and hosting the […]
Interview with Brooke Mead, Program Coordinator at the Berkshire Immigrant Center
Brooke Mead has been the Program Coordinator at the Berkshire Immigrant Center in Pittsfield since 2002. She was named Immigrant Advocate of the Year by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition in 2009. Recent accomplishments include becoming an Accredited Representative for the Board of Immigration Appeals and being chosen as one of Berkshire Magazine’s […]
Suzi Banks Baum and The New Illuminations: One of WAM’s 2016 Beneficiaries
Suzi Banks Baum has been a friend of WAM Theatre since 2012. A resident of Great Barrington, Suzi is active in the Berkshire community as a writer, an artist, an educator, and an actor. She is the editor and publisher of An Anthology of Babes: 36 Women Give Motherhood a Voice, and has written for […]
Interview with Kate Cayley, Playwright of “The Bakelite Masterpiece”
Kate Cayley, author of our 2016 Main Stage production The Bakelite Masterpiece, co-produced with the Berkshire Theatre Group, is a fiction writer and poet as well as a playwright. She has written a short story collection, How You Were Born (Pedlar Press), which won the 2015 Trillium Book Award, a collection of poetry, When This […]
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 […]