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November 7–24NORTHEAST REGIONAL PREMIERE!

featuring Suzanne Ankrum, Brendan Cataldo, Joan Coombs, Kim Stau"er and Oliver Wadsworth

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WAM Theatre presents

scenic designer JULIANA VON HAUBRICH

lighting designer ANDI LYONS

movement director EMILY LUTIN

vocal coach ARIEL BOCK

production manager NATE WIESSNER

second production assistant MELISSA RAO

costume designer GOVANE LOHBAUER

composer VINCENT OLIVIERI

technical director SAM CRAIG

associate producer KELLY GALVIN

!rst production assistant MELISSA NATHAN

assistant scenic charge ERIN OUELLETTE

stage manager NORAH SCHEINMAN

directed by KRISTEN VAN GINHOVEN

Emilie runs two hours with one !fteen-minute intermission.

FOR WAM THEATRE:

by LAUREN GUNDERSONstarring

SUZANNE ANKRUM*, BRENDAN CATALDO, JOAN COOMBS, KIM STAUFFER* and OLIVER WADSWORTH*

assistant to the artistic director KELLY GALVIN

publicist KIMBERLY RAWSON

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Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.

graphic designer ENRICO SPADA

*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

sound/projection designer & musical arrangements BRAD BERRIDGE

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The first exciting theatrical experience I had was when I went to see Les Miserables with my eighth grade class. I was completely sucked into the magic of the theatrical storytelling and didn’t want to leave the theatre. I had goosebumps throughout the entire show and felt viscerally engaged in the story. Now, when I read a play and feel those goosebumps I know I’m onto something special. I felt that immediately when I first read Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight.

For me, Emilie combines the quest for a scientific answer about squaring an equation with the search for why we exist. Humanity and science are woven together into an exciting, theatrical story. I love this story, but, just as importantly, I love how Lauren Gunderson, the playwright, tells this story. The imaginative theatricality, the ensemble nature of the play, the framework she provides of “Time and Space” giving Emilie another chance at finding the answer to her urgent question about Living Force, asking: “What matters, what lasts, if lasting even matters? What’s the point?” All of this combines into a play that, when brought to life by this talented cast and creative team, creates the potential for an exciting theatrical experience.

Emilie o!ers a model for all women (and men, too), teaching us to: have a clear goal, develop a circle of mentors, believe in oneself, educate oneself, create a strategy for success and just go for it! I am so proud that the beneficiary for this production is a local organization that exemplifies Emilie’s model: The Rite of Passage and Empowerment for Girls program (ROPE) founded by Pittsfield community leader Shirley Edgerton. ROPE will receive 25% of the box o"ce proceeds from this production, putting those funds towards the college tour that culminates ROPE’s year long program of support for young women in Berkshire County, with a particular focus on young women of color.

WAM Theatre’s double philanthropic model means that by being here tonight you are supporting the arts and supporting women and girls. A double WAMmy! Thank you!#

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SUZANNE ANKRUM * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soubrette

BRENDAN CATALDO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gentleman

JOAN COOMBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Madam

KIM STAUFFER* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emilie

OLIVER WADSWORTH* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Voltaire

Anna Kroup was a talented young woman who worked with WAM in 2012 as Assistant Stage

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We sadly lost Anna earlier this year and as a way to honor her memory we dedicate this production to her.

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Anna is by continuing to make great theater, music and poetry as that's what she loved.

Anna, this one's for you.

As your tattoo said, 'God is in the details'.

You are missed.

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The saying goes that “behind every great man stands a great woman.” However, the truth is that

historically, were it not for cultural barriers to education and professional development for women, it might have been the “great woman” who was out in front. Such is the case for the Marquise Du Châtelet and her lover and intellectual partner, Voltaire. While his name is instantly recognizable today, more than 250 years after he pub-lished his most famous work, “Candide,” the Marquise has yet to achieve the respect due to her astounding intellect and her solid achievements.

Like most women who managed to become literate back in the 18th century, the Marquise had two things going for her as a child: family wealth, and a father who supported, at least to some degree, his daughter’s education. Young Emilie studied Latin, French and En-glish with her brother’s tutors, and once she could read she began a course in self-education, with a particular interest in mathematics and physics.

She was married in 1725, at the age of 19, to a nobleman who was a General in the King’s Army, and thus often away from home. Emilie bore him three children, but her real passion continued to be the pursuit of knowl-edge, and as a young woman she began to engage some of the finest minds in France to tutor her in the sciences. In her thirst to join in the intellectual discourse of her time, she even, it was rumored, went so far as to cross-dress as a man in order to attend male-only intellectual salons in Paris.

Madame Du Châtelet and Voltaire seem to have recognized each other as kindred spirits as soon as they met, and it wasn’t long before they became both lovers and intellectual comrades. Emilie’s husband did not seem to mind when she and Voltaire took up residence in a ramshackle chateau in the country, bringing their extensive library of books and manuscripts with them, and setting up a laboratory of sorts in one of the back rooms. They were both extremely productive, perhaps even a bit competitive in their quest for achievement in original thinking, writing and publication. Although today Voltaire is best known for his essays and operas, he also published widely on scientific topics, and both he and Emilie shared a fascination with the controversial theories of Isaac Newton.

The Marquise Du Châtelet’s first book was a physics textbook, The Foundations of Physics, aimed at explaining physics in clear, accessible language. It was a first of its kind, and very successful, quickly being translated into Italian, English and German. Accepted as a member of the learned Republic of Letters, she gained additional fame when she bested the executive director of the Academy of Sciences on the issue of the proper formula for kinetic energy.

Eager to introduce more of her contemporaries to Newton’s revolutionary theories on gravity, force and speed, Emilie began a monumental project: the trans-lation into French of Newton’s magisterial Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. But like so many women in history, the Marquise Du Châtelet’s life was cut short by childbearing. She was 42 when she fell in love with a younger man, the poet Saint-Lambert, and became pregnant with his child. During her pregnancy she worked madly to finish her translation of Newton’s Principia, which she succeeded in doing just days before she gave birth to a daughter, a birth she did not herself survive. Her translation of Newton, however, remains the definitive French edition of this major work to this day.

We can only speculate how the course of human history might have been altered by the full participation of women in our intellectual development. The few women in each generation who managed to educate themselves and to make a contribution to the various branches of human knowledge deserve recognition not only for their achievements, but also for their daring and persistence. The men by their sides who encouraged these remarkable women to take themselves seriously as intellectuals also deserve credit. Lauren Gunderson’s play “Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends her Life Tonight” presents the relationship of Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet in all its complexity, as an intellectual part-nership that enabled them both to thrive.

Suggested reading: Judith P. Zinsser. La Dame d'Esprit: A Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet. New York: Viking, 2006.

— Dr. Jennifer de Browdy Hernandez, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Media Studies and Gender Studies, Bard College at Simon’s Rock

These notes were written as part of the Education Outreach project funded by Mass Humanities.

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;+(<-);+(,")/SUZANNE ANKRUM (Soubrette) WAM Debut. Regional: Credits include Woyzeck, Merry Wives of Windsor, and Tartu!e (Clarence Brown Theatre); Twelfth Night and Henry IV, Part 2 (Richmond Shakespeare); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tennessee Shakespeare); and The Seagull and Much Ado About Nothing (Henley Street Players). Education: MFA from the University of Tennessee. Special thanks to WAM Theatre and to all those dear ones both near and far.

BRENDAN CATALDO (Gentleman) WAM Debut. New York stage: Macbeth (Gallery Players, NY). Selected regional credits include: Black Tie (Adirondack Theatre Festival, NY), Pride and Prejudice (PCPA Theaterfest, CA), It’s a Wonderful Life (Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, IN), Altar Boyz (American Stage Theatre Co., FL) and Love, Sex and the I.R.S. (Prather Entertainment Group, FL). Brendan is a native of Albany, NY. He holds a BFA in Theatre Studies (Performance) from Niagara University. Brendan would like to send love and gratitude to Kristen, his family, friends and fellow artists. www.brendancataldo.com.

JOAN COOMBS (Madam) With WAM: 10"10on10 Festival, 24 Hour Theatre Project (2011 and 2012). Joan Coombs appears on stages in the Berkshires and Capital Region. Shakespeare & Company: The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Tartu!e; Leap Year. She has appeared in productions at The Theater Barn and was seen there in September in Better Late. Also: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Cocktail Hour; Lettice & Lovage; Enchanted April. She is also currently narrating a series of enhanced eBooks.

KIM STAUFFER (Emilie) WAM Debut. New York: Much Ado About Nothing, Mary Stuart, Macbeth (New York Classical Theatre). Regional: Circle Mirror Transformation (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire, The Crucible (Barrington Stage Company); Othello (Shakespeare Festival St. Louis); Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Tempest, Macbeth, Pericles, Lorenzaccio (The Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC); Proof (Triad Stage); A Christmas Carol (Virginia Stage Company); Taming of the Shrew, The Crucible (Capital Repertory Theatre); Crime and Punishment (Chester Theatre); Merchant of Venice, The Tempest (North

Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Othello, Galileo, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (Theatre of the Seventh Sister). TV/Film: Hence the Stars, Pearl Divers, Small Shots: The Amish Matrix. Education: MFA University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

OLIVER WADSWORTH (Voltaire) WAM Debut. National Tour: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. O! Broadway: Endpapers (Variety Arts); Well (The Public Theater). Regional: Mystery of Irma Vep (Arizona Theatre Company), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Fulton Theater); Misalliance (Old Globe and Seattle Repertory); An Enemy of the People (Long Wharf Theatre); Santaland Diaries, Dracula and Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Peter Pan (Denver Center Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Syracuse Stage); Fully Committed (Metroland Best Performance), The Taming of the Shrew, Take Me Out and Art (Capital Rep.); Noises O!, Murder on the Nile (Dorset Theatre Festival), Shipwrecked, (AriZoni Award Best Supporting Actor), Angels in America Part l and ll (AriZoni award, Best Actor), Pillowman, Lieutenant of Inishmore, Nickel and Dimed (Actors Theatre Phoenix), Stones In His Pockets (Metroland Best Performance), (Adirondack Theatre Festival); The Art Room (Woolly Mammoth). TV/Film: Upcoming “Beware the Night” with Eric Bana, “Ed’s Next Move”, “Dotty Gets Spanked” and “Law and Order SVU”. Online: OliverWadsworth.com.

,%*"/(;*#5*"<LAUREN GUNDERSON (Playwright) WAM Debut. Lauren is an award-winning playwright living in San Francisco. She studied at Emory University and NYU’s Tisch School of Performing Arts where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her work has been produced and developed at companies across the US including South Cost Rep (Emilie, Silent Sky), The Kennedy Center (The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog!), Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, The Magic, Actors Express, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, Playwrights Foundation, Impact Theatre, The Lark, and The O’Neill. Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight is published with Samual French. The first play in her Shakespeare Cycle, Exit, Pursued By A Bear, is now published with Playscripts, as is the second, Toil and Trouble. She is a Playwright in Residence at The Playwrights Foundation, and a proud Dramatists Guild member. Los Angeles Times

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calls Gunderson someone who ‘possesses an antic imagination that seeks to invent its own rules. As soon as we’re drawn in, she shakes and whisks us 10 or 15 paces ahead’.

KRISTEN VAN GINHOVEN (Director) With Wam: Kristen is WAM’s Artistic Director. For WAM Theatre, Kristen’s directing credits include: The Old Mezzo (World Premiere), The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls and Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play. She recently was a director for the 10$10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage Company, where she also was assistant director for Sleuth and Absurd Person Singular. Elsewhere as a director, Kristen has worked at the Stratford Festival of Canada, Capital Repertory Theatre, Majestic Theatre, Cohoes Music Hall, and Emerson College. Kristen is a member of the 2013 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.

BRAD BERRIDGE (Sound/Projection Design and Musical Arrangements) With WAM: The Old Mezzo; The Attic, The Pearls, and Three Fine Girls. Recent o!-Broadway: Nightmare Alley, 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti, Himself and Nora, Cactus Flower. Regional: Himself and Nora for the American Theatre Group; The Best of Enemies at George Street Playhouse, The Sparkly Clean Funeral Singers, The Sister Rosensweig and Superior Donuts at Capital Repertory. The Black Suits, The Whipping Man, The Best of Enemies, and Pool Boy (world premieres) at Barrington Stage. The Crucible, A Streetcar Named Desire and many others at BSC. Brad is the Resident Sound Designer for The Sharon Playhouse. He is also the Creative Director for the sound art collective, Push The Button. Their work has been featured at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial in the Czech Republic and the 2011 Long Beach, CA SoundWalk. Brad lives in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts with his wife Ashley and children, Emma and Charles. www.bradberridge.com

ARIEL BOCK (Vocal Coach) WAM Debut. Ariel is a longtime member of Shakespeare & Company, where she has many acting credits, is a faculty member and serves administratively. A Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, she coaches privately and has been on the faculty of many New England colleges. Ariel has worked at the Wharton Salon and Mixed Company and with the Ensemble for the Romantic Century in NYC, playing Nadhezda Von Meck, Fanny Mendelsohn, Sonia Tolstoy and Anna Akhmatova.

SAM CRAIG (Technical Director) With WAM: The Old Mezzo; The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls. After over thirty years of experience in professional theatre, as a scenic designer, technical director, and production manager, Sam currently enjoys doing freelance specialty scenic projects for area theaters. He also enjoys woodcarving. He lives in Hinsdale with his wife Kate and Summer, their Labrador retriever.

KELLY GALVIN (Associate Producer) With WAM: In addition to serving as WAM’s Assistant to the Artistic Director, Kelly has collaborated with WAM as a performer in 10$10on10 and as director of My Seminarian at the Berkshire Fringe Festival. She is a company member at Shakespeare & Company where she has performed in King Lear, The Winter’s Tale, The Venetian Twins, Love’s Labours Lost and Les Liaisons Dangereuses among others. She also directs in the company’s Fall Festival of Shakespeare and teaches in its education programs. Regionally, Kelly has worked with the Wellesley Summer Theatre, The Kitchen Theatre Company, and The Boston Publick. She graduated from Wellesley College where she studied Theatre and Political Science.

GOVANE LOHBAUER (Costume Designer) WAM Debut. Govane is in her 34th year with Shakespeare & Company where she is a primary designer and has been Costume Director for the last 13 years. This year she designed Master Class, Love's Labors Lost, Kaufman’s Barbershop and Leap Year for the summer season. Selected credits at S&Co.: King Lear, The Liar, The Learned Ladies, Women Of Will, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Taster, Mengelberg and Mahler, Twelfth Night, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Shirley Valentine, Golda’s Balcony, The Ladies Man, Rough Crossing, Enchanted April, Martha Mitchell Calling, Macbeth. She also has designed for Theatre 37 in Stockbridge for the last 12 years. Other favorite Regional credits include Caucasian Chalk Circle, Arabian Nights, Red Noses, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Metamorphosis, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol, Once Upon A Mattress, Top Girls, H.M.S. Pinafore, Gianni Schicci, Carousel, The Merry Widow, La Finta Giardiniera. As Adjunct Faculty/Designer, Simon’s Rock of Bard College: Cloud Nine, Our Country’s Good, Suddenly Last Summer. Govane lives in Lee with her actor/husband Bob. They spend as much time as they can with their 9 grand children and great grandson, Elijah.

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EMILY LUTIN (Movement Director) WAM Debut. As a Movement Director, Dancer, Choreographer, Educator, & Yoga Instructor, Emily works with all ages and abilities towards strengthening movement awareness through the mind-body connection. With a BA in Dance and Arts & Education from Hobart & William Smith, and one course away from a MALS in Arts from Wesleyan University, she has performed and taught throughout with Mabou Mines Theater Company; The School for Gifted Children NY, NY; ESS/Danceworks, NY, NY; Nagunama Dance, NY, NY; Time Lapse Dance, NY, NY; Clark Dance Theatre, New Haven, CT; Young Audience’s; Catapult Entertainment and many more. Emily is currently the Director of Dance at Choate Rosemary Hall and founder of The Movementality. www.themovementality.com

ANDI LYONS (Lighting Design) WAM Debut. Andi has designed more than two hundred productions in a variety of professional and academic venues. Favorite recent credits include Imagining Mado! at Stageworks/Hudson; Twelfth Night at Williams College; Tosca at Tri-Cities Opera; Distant Music at Theater for the New City; Lonely Planet at Oklahoma State University; and Looking Over the President’s Shoulder at Capital Repertory Theatre. She is the Resident Designer at UAlbany, SUNY. Andi received her MFA from Yale’s School of Drama.

MELISSA NATHAN (First Production Assistant) WAM Debut. NYC credits: China: The Whole Enchilada (FringeNYC), The Dome (Prospect Theater Company), Twelfth Night (Sonnet Repertory Theatre), VICTORY (PTP/NYC), and The Groove Factory (NYMF). Regional credits: The Imaginary Invalid (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre), Bonnie & Clyde (Asolo Rep), The Mound Builders (Kaliyuga Arts), August: Osage County (WPPAC), and Our Town (Theater at Monmouth).

VINCENT OLIVIERI (Composer) WAM Debut. Broadway: High. O!-Broadway: The Water’s Edge, Omnium Gatherum and Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy. New York & regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Barrington Stage Company, Center Stage (Baltimore), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Ge!en Playhouse, The Juilliard School, Pasadena Playhouse Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Portland Center Stage, The Public (New York), South Coast Repertory, Syracuse Stage, Woolly Mammoth and Yale Repertory Theatre. Mr. Olivieri has created designs & music for a variety of world-premiere productions. For three seasons, he was the Resident Sound Designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where

he designed for the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Mr. Olivieri is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and serves on the faculty at University of California-Irvine.

ERIN OUELLETTE (Assistant Scenic Design) With WAM: The Old Mezzo, 10"10on10. Erin is a graduate of the Theatre Department at SUNY Albany where she studied performance and scenic painting; and is a graduate of the Conservatory at Shakespeare and Company. Erin has worked as an actor, scenic painter, and costumer/makeup artist in theatres throughout the northeast including Shakespeare and Company, Weston Playhouse, Northern Stage, Mac-Haydn Theatre and Hubbard Hall.

MELISSA RAO (Second Production Assistant) WAM Debut. Melissa Rao of Burnt Hills, NY is a graduate of Siena College. She is thrilled to be a part of this wonderful production—her first with WAM Theatre! Melissa has been fortunate to have been on stage and backstage of many shows at Siena and professionally. Thanks to her family and friends for all their support!

NORAH SCHEINMAN (Stage Manager) WAM Debut. Norah holds an MFA in Stage Management from Rutgers University. Most recently she served as PSM at Franklin Stage Company and worked for The Flea Theater on the extension of Johnathan Caren’s The Recommendation. Other companies she has had the pleasure to work with include The Atlantic Theater Company, FringeNYC, The Pearl Theatre Company, 13th Street Repertory, and The Santa Fe Opera. In January, she will be ASM for Yale Opera’s production of La Boheme. norahjanescheinman.com

JULIANA VON HAUBRICH (Scenic Design) With WAM: Juliana has been designing for WAM since Melancholy Play in 2010. She transplanted from NYC to the Berkshires 9 years ago. During her career, she designed productions in Detroit (Mosaic Youth Theatre), Los Angeles (Paramount Studios, Echo Theatre Co.), and NYC (The Juilliard School, The Acting Company, and Present Company Theatre). She has an MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts, and is originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she received a BA in Anthropology from the University of Michigan.

NATE WIESSNER (Production Manager) WAM Debut. Nate is Technical Director of Dance and Presenting Production Manager for the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College. He is happy to be bringing his production experience to his work with WAM. Nate and his wife, Kimberly, live in North Adams, MA. He is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

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AUGUST 2011: Women and Words: An Instant Theatre Piece Part of the Pitts!eld WordxWord Festival

NOVEMBER 2011: The Attic, The Pearls, and Three Fine Girls by Martha Ross, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Jennifer Brewin, Alisa Palmer and Leah Cherniak $1,750 to Berkshire United Way’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative

APRIL 2012: Second Annual 24Hr Berkshire/Capital Region Theatre Project A co-production with The Mop & Bucket Company

AUGUST 2012: Like/Unlike created and directed by Leigh Strimbeck Company in residence at the Pitts!eld WordxWord Festival

OCTOBER 2012: The Old Mezzo by Susan Dworkin (World Premiere) $2,400 to Shout Out Loud Productions: Taking Action to Address Sexual Tra"cking

FEBRUARY 2013: 10x10on10 in the 10x10 Upstreet Art Festival A multi-media theatre and art exhibition in collaboration with Alchemy Initiative

FEBRUARY 2013: One Billion Rising Dance Party Hosted in collaboration with various community organizations

MARCH 2013: Half the Sky !lm showing in collaboration with Sisters for Peace Part of the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers

MAY 2013: Third Annual 24Hr Berkshire/Capital Region Theatre Project A co-production with The Mop & Bucket Company

JUNE 2013: Claiming Her Place A Bene!t for WAM Theatre featuring a celebrity panel discussing the challenges women face in the entertainment industry

W A M P R O D U C T I O N H I S T O R Y

Dawn Lane/CATAJayne Atkinson

Rachel MaySheela ClaryLynn Power

Joni and Brian Thomas (Volunteer Coordinators)Reba and Bruce Evenchik

Suzie McLellanHeather Flemming

Williams College ’62 Center for Theatre and DanceEveryone at Barrington Stage Company

Math Master Randy ReissHome Depot

Main Street Stage

Shakespeare & CompanyWilliams College Theatre Department

Martin FilionAldam Press, Inc.

Christopher DonovanCarrie Colodner

Randy Reiss (Math Advisor)Claire Wernik-Cantone

Kimberly Ciola Trudy Gilbert Kelly Dekker

Theresa Hathaway Shanae Burch

All the volunteers who worked on this production

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The inaugural WAM Theatre educational outreach project

complementing this production is sponsored by a grant

from Mass Humanities with additional ticket sponsorship

provided by Berkshire Bank Foundation and Interprint.

Thank you to the "first five" local participating

organizations:

• BART Charter School in Adams

• Flying Cloud Institute in Great Barrington

• Girls Inc. of Pittsfield

• Multicultural BRIDGE, based in Lee

• Rites of Passage and Empowerment for Girls Program,

based in Pittsfield

Scholars involved in this project include: Dr. Amy Holzapfel,

Associate Professor of Theatre, Williams College (Education

Study Guide), Dr. Jennifer de Browdy Hernandez, Associate

Professor of Comparative Literature, Media Studies and

Gender Studies, Bard College at Simon’s Rock (Program

Notes), and playwright Lauren Gunderson (Talkbacks). The

social media outreach campaign is led by Shanae Burch.

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Blue Q

Bola Granola

Bomber's

Castle Street Cafe

Chester Theatre Company

Chocolate Springs Cafe

Cookiehead

Dorset Theatre Festival

Reba and Bruce Evenchik

Amy Holzapfel

Jane Iredale Cosmetics

Karen Lee

Suzanne Merritt

Jonathan Molk

Marla Mongjardo

Vincent Olivieri

Peace Love and Chocolate

Perreca's

Pittsfield Bra & Girl

David Renner

Matt Tannebaum

Sarah Todd

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PRODUCTION SPONSORSBerkshire Magazine

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PARTNERSCohen Kinne Valicenti Cook Attorneys

Interprint

LEADERSBerkshire Bank

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HEROES & HEROINESValerie B Barr

Sara and Jon Budish JtwrosLynn Gernert

Kristin and James HattJoan and Jim Hunter

Susan Rose-LaferVanessa and Jay Sax

Tammy and Dave ValicentiKristen van Ginhoven and Nick Webb

Kristen VangsnessDylandale Foundation

Brabson Library and Educational Foundation

The Appelbaum-Kahn Foundation

ANGELSLyn and Richard Atkinson

Kate Barton and Sam CraigJoyce Bernstein

Ashley and Brad BerridgeSusan Dworkin

Jayne Atkinson-Gill and Michel GillNina Molin M.D. and Jon Gotterer D.M.DRosalind Bennett and Linus Roache

Carol and Merrill SandersonBrian Schwab

Joe StarzykElizabeth and Marshall Webb

Kim Ciola and Nathaniel Wiessner Nancy Wilder

Dale and Marvin Winell

100 CLUBGail and Joel Appelbaum

Dr. Judith BarlowDana Bishop

Vicki BonningtonRegina Burgio

Erin F CaseyJoan and Peter Coombs

Angela DavidKatesel Strimbeck and William Dillon

Becka EricksonCatherine and Matthew Fisch

Bruce GarlowIneke and Vince Garofalo

Deborah GrausmanNorman Hatch

Nancy KalodnerKathy LeMay

Carol and Lance LiebmanSharon and Ken Lillis

Dawn A. MartinKatherine Miller

Dorothea Greene and Linda MorseMary and Seth Nash

Lisa NelsonYvonne Perry and Mark Hulbert

Susan Wands and Robert Petko!Richard Phillips

Lynn PowerNancy Rohn

William Sanderson, in memory of Katie Miga Sanderson

Joe and Ro Sax Sherrie D. Howard and Bradley

SchiesserEileen and Joe Schuyler

Sally SoluriJonathan Swartz

Margaret McTeigue and Thomas WesselSusan Weekes

Teresa and Ronald Wise

CHAMPIONSBarbara and Don Barron

Jennifer BrowdyPatricia and David Bunce

Tracy Liz Miller and Kent BurnhamLonnie Carter

Linda B. ColvinEllen Crobier-Fischman

Heidi and Raf deChiefPamela and Doug Edwards-Johnson

Bruce GarlowEric GrimsteadJanel Halpern

Heidi Hass and Fred HoovenMariclare Hulbert

John KnappGloria Miller and Macey Levin

Serene MastrianniDana Harrison and Marc Maurino

Judith NardacciJohn W Noble

Elna NugentCindy Parrish

Pat ReillyKaren Rusch

Marjorie SafranJane Salata

Elizabeth StottAbby and Richard Tovell

Susan Valicenti

/(2('-Truus and Martin van Ginhoven

Linda WhiteTeresa and Ronald Wise

ADVOCATESJennifer Aza AllanAnalesa Rose Berg

Jesse BergerMaria Black

Rose BookbinderAngela and Marc Breuers

Grayce BurianJo-Ann BurnettMary Campbell

Stephanie Wehle CopelandKristi Funk Dana

Leslye R. Heilig and Louis D. DavisSuzanne Engels

Karel and Andrew FisherMarion Hunter and Uel Wade

Kelly JonesClare Suzanne Klose

Richard LounelloBarbara E Mandler

Brenda OppermannTony PalloneKevin Pevato

Judy RettigLynn Rist

Ruth RosenthalLaura and Je! Roudabush

Megan Sandberg-ZakianAudrey and Marty Schlanger

Chris Foster and Patrick WhiteMeg Agnew and Paul Wisswaesser

Melissa Wol!Adam Zahler

(as of October 28, 2013)

We have carefully prepared this list. If your name was misspelled or inadvertently omitted, please

accept our sincere apologies and contact us at info@wamtheatre.

com or 518-234-9627 so that we may correct our records.

ACCOMPLICEby RUPERT HOLMESdirected by STEPHEN ROTHMAN

“Part murder-mystery, part sex-farce and completely entertaining… Suspenseful, charming and funny.”USA Today

“I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”

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