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 […]
Meet Susie Weekes – Our Connection to Mother of Peace, Illovo
In keeping with WAM Theatre’s double philanthropic mission, twenty-five percent of the profits from In Darfur will go directly to the Housemothers of Mother of Peace Orphanage in Illovo, South Africa. What is the connection between a Berkshire theatre company and a South African orphanage? Susie Weekes! Read the story of how she became involved […]
My Highlights-End of Year Blog Post-Kristen
It’s the end of our inaugural year. Wow. It is incredibly difficult for me to really comprehend that in the past year, WAM Theatre has produced two successful professional theatrical events, collaborated with over 40 theatre artists, (over 80% of whom were female), raised over $15,000 in monetary and in-kind donations from over 150 donors […]
What does it actually mean to achieve one’s potential?
This week, the news broke that Jenny Gersten was named Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival. Since then, I have not only been thinking about how amazing it is to that a woman was chosen for this prominent position, I have also been thinking about the fact that she is 41. Wow. An Artistic Director […]
Women of Influence
At Russell Sage College, we like to use the term “Women of Influence” for the students. It describes the kind of women we want to graduate from this small women’s college in Troy, New York. The term gets me thinking about who the women of influence have been in my life, the ones who got […]
Theresa Rebeck’s Inspiration
I spent all week trying to figure out what to write about in the blog this week and this morning, Leigh sent me an email with this subject heading: “WAM must post this…..Text of Theresa Rebeck Laura Pels Keynote Address | Women & Hollywood” The blog this week is her speech, as posted by Melissa […]
Thoughts from Leigh on ‘Mirror, Mirror’ and ‘I’M NOT A FEMINIST, BUT….’
‘Mirror, Mirror’ will be performed as part of ‘A WAM Welcome’, April 9-11, 2010 at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA. Go to www.wamtheatre.com for more information and to purchase tickets. Right now I’m working on a piece called I’M NOT A FEMINIST, BUT…. we’re just showed about a half an hour of material […]
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. […]
Creating and Maintaining Dramatic, Dynamic Social Transformation-A Guest Blog
Written by Stephanie Doty, who is working towards an MS, Management, Non-profit Leadership degree, from New England College in Henniker, NH. Funding support is critical to many (if not all) non-profit organizations. Frequently, funders’ guidelines indicate a desire to provide financial support for programs that will create dramatic changes in peoples’ lives, thus establishing a […]
Will my glass of wine ever taste the same?
I have been thinking a lot about wine. How can I sit at home, enjoying my wine (and all my other creature comforts) while women and girls all over the world endure traumatic experiences that are beyond my comprehension? Yesterday, February 3, 2010, Nicholas Kristof wrote an op-ed column about Lisa Shannon, called ‘From ‘Oprah’ […]