Directed by Talya Kingston

We’re very grateful to our 2020 Corporate Sponsors for making it possible to present this special virtual play of The Thanksgiving Play. Thanks also to our two artistic collaborators: presents The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation)

Online November 19-22, 2020

CREATIVE TEAM: CATHERINE DICKERSON ... Assistant Director / Costume Coordinator JULIANA VON HAUBRICH ... Production Designer KATARI L. WILSON ... Illustrator HOPE ROSE KELLY* ... Stage Manager TALYA KINGSTON ... Director TRENDA LOFTIN ... BIPOC Advocate TOM TRUSS* ... Musical Arrangement and performance

The Thanksgiving Play is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of “THE THANKSGIVING PLAY” in 2018. “THE THANKSGIVING PLAY” was commissioned and originally produced by Artists Repertory Theatre Damaso Rodriguez, Artistic Director Sarah Horton, Managing Director Portland, Oregon

Playwrights Horizons is dedicated to cultivating the most important American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, as well as developing and producing their bold new plays and musicals. Tim Sanford became Artistic Director in 1996 and Leslie Marcus has been Managing Director since 1993. Under their decades of leadership, Playwrights builds upon its diverse and renowned body of work, counting 400 writers among its artistic roster. In addition to its onstage work each season, Playwrights’ singular commitment to nurturing American theater artists guides all of the institution’s multifaceted initiatives: our acclaimed New Works Lab, a robust commissioning program, an innovative curriculum at its Theater School, and more. Robert Moss founded Playwrights in 1971 and cemented the mission that continues to guide the institution today. André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981-1992. Don Scardino succeeded him and served until 1996. Over its 47-year history, Playwrights has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including six Pulitzer Prizes, 13 Tony Awards, and 39 Obie Awards.

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When Talya Kingston, WAM’s Associate Artistic Director and director of THE THANKSGIVING Proactive design

by Kate Hennig PLAY, brought this play to me, she had a huge smile on her face. directed by Kelly Galvin

– Globe and Mail RAOUL October 13 - November “…lively…unapologetic” 5 SILVER

She knew immediately that our WAMily would love this hilarious satire. ALICIA PIEMME NELSON Featuring LILY A modern take on Katherine Parr’s marriageLINKE to Henry VIII – Chicago Tribune DAVID “a very smart piece of writing”JOSEPH JOHN

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NEHASSAIU While our nation has elected an incoming President and Vice-President who have pledged to deGANNES “Hugely entertaining” ONLY! - The Times (London) WEEKEND prioritize systemic racism, it is clear from the closeness of the election, and how many white ONE MAYA hilarious new 4show starring& 5 Presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre internationally acclaimed men and women voted for Donald Trump, that there is still an enormous amount of work to comedienne Alison Larkin do in this country around Anti-Racism. Friday, May 4 @ 7:30pm; Saturday, May 5 @ 2pm and 7:30pm Schedule: $30-$40. $60 VIP tickets include WAMTheatrean exclusive post .com Tickets: show Champagne reception with Alison, May 5 @ 7:30pm only Presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, 70 Kemble St., Lenox As playwright Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) says, “Laughter gives us energy. For tickets or information, visit Laughter gives us more time. It actually adds time to your life, so I’m giving you information AND I’m giving you more time to change the world.”

This play is a next step for WAM in our Anti-Racism work, started a few years ago with our Annual Report work with BRIDGE and last year’s collaboration on PIPELINE, and is continuing this year as 2017 we work to be accountable to the list of demands released earlier this year by We See You White American Theatre.

Back in 2018, as an early step in our commitment to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all, we started doing Land Acknowledgements before our productions.

With this virtual play, we are now honored to be taking the next step in building our relationship support changed WAM in 2017

Digital Design Website design WebE-newsletters site development Print Brochures Business Cards Programs www.WAMTheatre.com/education Innovative Solutions Innovative with the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Tribe, upon whose ancestral homelands We’re a one-stopHere’s how YOUR shop for allcontact: [email protected] graphic WAM resides. The video introduction to The Thanksgiving Play was provided to us by Heather design needs from branding to marketing Bruegl, Director of Cultural Affairs for the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe. We send gratitude to communications to museum display challenges. Heather and look forward to an ongoing relationship. We will be making a donation to the Mohican tribe’s new library and museum. We encourage That includes asking targeted questions and getting to know what you to join us by donating to the Mohican Tribe here. makes you and your business tick—from how you got started to your vision and goals. We work with you one on one to understand To all our sponsors, donors, and supporters - you are the reason we the full scope of the project, your needs, your likes and dislikes, are still here. Thank you. and what makes your business distinctive. Whether you’ve got a Pinterest board full of inspiration and need guidance narrowing it Here’s to continuing to do all we can to create the world we want down, or whether you simply aren’t sure where to begin, we turn to live in. your ideas into actionable designs. In solidarity, We also believe that “comfortable” is for binge-watching Netflix in our sweatpants, so we push those ideas in new and exciting directions. But we never design for our portfolio; we create graphic designs for the real world to make your business feel unique, dynamic, and accessible to your audience. From sophisticated to playful, high-end to highly stylized, we craft a look that’s smart, smashing, and uniquely you. PS - Giving Tuesday is coming up on December 1. We hope you will choose to continue to support WAM alongside all T Square Design Studio the other worthy causes you include in your philanthropy. 413-274-0010 [email protected] tsquare.design page 5 Learn more at WAMTheatre.com Land Acknowledgement About WAM Theatre As part of WAM Theatre’s commitment to acknowledging and WAM Theatre is a professional theatre company based in working towards building relationships with the Indigenous Berkshire County, MA, USA, that operates at the intersection Tribes, Nations, and Peoples on whose land we live and of arts and activism. WAM creates theatre for gender equity work, we begin all our public gatherings with a land and has a vision of theatre as philanthropy. acknowledgement. Since we all worked from different places, we wanted to acknowledge the various ancestral homelands WAM Theatre’s Mission & Vision or unceded lands our artists worked from on this digital play: The ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, Munsee Every time an audience comes together for a theatrical Lenape land, the traditional homelands of the Haudenosaunee event, a community is formed. WAM Theatre engages that Confederacy, the the homeland of the Nipmuc Tribal People community by producing theatrical events for everyone, with and the Pocutuc Nation, on Nonotuck land and on the a focus on women theatre artists and/or stories of women and Sicangu Lakota Rosebud Reservation. girls, and by donating a portion of the proceeds from those theatrical events to organizations that work to benefit the lives All of us involved in THE THANKSGIVING PLAY pay our of women and girls in our communities and worldwide. respects to Elders past, present, and emerging, and celebrate the diversity of Indigenous peoples and their ongoing cultures and connections to the lands and waters of Turtle Island. Do you know about the Indigenous lands you live and work on? Find out at: https://native-land.ca/ For more information on the Indigenous Tribes, Nations, and Peoples on whose land we live and work visit WAM’s Thanksgiving Play site. PIPELINE check presentation

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November 24, 7pm EST: Director Talya Kingston and members of The Thanksgiving Play cast and creative team invite HELLER you to join them on Zoom to talk about the process of creating WAM’s digital production. & Please enjoy WAM’s Thanksgiving Play site, where you can find more information ROBBINS PC on the cast and creative team. Legal Representation for

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[email protected] 2) Pay attention to language and names. Honor and make changes to the dominant narrative that glorifies colonization and genocide of indigenous peoples of this area. Problematic terms like “Pioneer Valley” are a reminder of that legacy of dispossession, removal and subsequent irrasure, try shifting to “Connecticut River Valley”.

3) Re-Thinking Thanksgiving National Day of Mourning: Since 1970, Native Americans and allies have gathered at noon on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US thanksgiving holiday. More information here: http://www.uaine.org We also recommend the acclaimed YA novel “The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving” by Larry Spotted Crow Mann of the Nipmuck Tribe.

4) Read about Indigenous Cultures The First National Development Institute have provided this book list as a starting point for anyone interested in Native American experiences: https://www.firstnations.org/knowledge-center/books/

5) Protest Native Mascots, Imagery and Cultural Appropriation There are three bills that the tribes of Massachusetts support in the state house right Each day at Canyon Ranch offers endless opportunities. Dozens of now that address banning offensive mascots from high schools, changing the state flag classes, treatments and services so you can create your perfect day. and seal to protect Native American heritage. Need every voter’s voice and support. Find out more at: http://maindigenousagenda.org/

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THE THANKSGIVING PLAY by Larissa FastHorse

CAST SPECIAL THANKS

CARISSA MARIE DAGENAIS ... Alicia Families of the cast for their support in filming including Robert Chatt, Maurice and Arlene Laflamme, Flora Parker-Myers; Sound Consultant Brad Berridge; MOLLY PARKER MYERS* ... Logan Valeria Wicker; Heather Bruegl; Bonney Hartley; Larry Spotted Crow Mann; RYLAN MORSBACH* ... Caden Dr. Priscilla Page; Michael Sakamoto; Lia Russell-Self, and all the WAM donors, supporters, sponsors, volunteers and artists involved with this production. TOM TRUSS ... Jaxton

CREATIVE TEAM CONNECT WITH WAM GEORGE COX ... Outpost / Video Animation Sign-up for our e-newsletter at www.WAMTheatre.com to be the first to hear our news. I’IN PURWANTI COX ... Outpost

CATHERINE DICKERSON ... Assistant Director / Costume Coordinator facebook.com/WAMTheatre

MARTIN FILION ... Puppeteer Assistant instagram.com/WAMTheatre

HOPE ROSE KELLY* ... Stage Manager youtube.com/WAMTheatre TALYA KINGSTON ... Director

TRENDA LOFTIN ... BIPOC Staff Advocate

ERICA SPIZZ ... Outpost / Video Editor JOIN WAM IN DONATING TO THE MOHICAN TRIBE ABBY TOVELL ... T Square / Website Designer WAM Theatre is honored to be connected with The Mohican Tribe RICHARD TOVELL ... T Square / Graphic Designer (traditional stewards of the land on which we reside) who will be TOM TRUSS* ... Musical arrangement and performance providing an introduction and cultural context to this play.

JULIANA VON HAUBRICH** ... Production Designer / Puppeteer As part of WAM’s ongoing anti-racism and reparations work and using our art as our activism, we will be making a donation to the KATARI L. WILSON ... Illustrator Mohican tribe’s new library and museum. We encourage you to join us by donating to the Mohican Tribe HERE.

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CARISSA MARIE DAGENAIS (Alicia) she/her WAM Theatre: PRODUCTION TEAM: debut. Elsewhere: Pride@Prejudice (Silverthorne Theater), How I Learned to CATHERINE DICKERSON (Assistant Director/Costume Coordinator) she/her Drive (Ghost Light Theater), (In)Dependent: The Heroin Story, Frankenstein, WAM Theatre: Debut Elsewhere: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Intimate Apparel, A Streetcar The Merchant of Venice (The Academy of Music), Little Red Riding Hood, Named Desire, Hair, Almost Maine, Rebel/Sister (UAlbany Premiere), Break: A New Musical The Princess Knight, Rapunzel (Paintbox Theater), Skyscraper, Abundance (Troy Civic Arts Center Premiere). Film/TV: Succession (Extra). Training: University at Albany (BA), New (Northampton Center for the Arts), Crisscross (Double Take Fringe) Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre (3-week Intensive). Online: Instagram - @cattmarie4114. York: To Protect, Serve and Understand, Blind Dreamers Meta/Pina (Irondale Theater), Maria, Young Playwrights for Change Festival (NYU), The Importance LARISSA FASTHORSE (Playwright) she/her WAM Theatre: debut Plays: The Thanksgiving of Doing Art (Poet’s Den Theater) Education: BA in Theater from Smith College and an MA in Drama Play, Cow Pie Bingo, Urban Rez, Native Nation, Landless, Average Family, Teaching Disco Therapy from NYU. Et Cetera: Carissa works as a drama therapist in Northampton, MA. Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation, and Cherokee Family Reunion. She has written commissions for Yale Rep, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Artists Rep Portland, Children’s Theatre WAM Theatre: MOLLY PARKER MYERS* (Logan) she/her debut. Company of Minneapolis, AlterTheater, Kennedy Center TYA, Native Voices at the Autry, Perseverance Elsewhere: Selected Roles include: Bananas in House of Blue Leaves, Emilie Theater Company and Mountainside Theatre. She developed plays with Kansas City Rep, Artist in Emilie: La Marquise de Chatalet Defends her Life Tonight (Wellesley Rep), Rep Portland, Arizona Theater Company, the Center Theatre Group Writer’s Workshop and Berkeley Huldey in The Moors, Geneva in Redwood Curtain (Bridge Street Theatre), Rep’s Ground Floor. Awards: the PEN/USA Literary Award for Drama, NEA Distinguished New Play Bella in Lost in Yonkers, Sally in Talley’s Folly, Sarah in The Norman Conquests Development Grant, Joe Dowling Annamaghkerrig Fellowship, AATE Distinguished Play Award, Inge Trilogy, Donna in Mamma Mia (Winnipesaukee Playhouse), Papermaker, The Residency, Sundance/Ford Foundation Fellowship, Aurand Harris Fellowship, and numerous Ford Ladies Man (Shadowland Stages), The Immigrant (Chenango River Theatre), and NEA Grants. Film/TV: Larissa has had pilot scripts in development with Fox and TeenNick. Etc: Radio/Recordings: Constellations (Tangent Theater). Audiobook Narrator, She is a current member of the Playwrights’ Center Core Writers, Playwright’s Union, Directors Lab Training: Online: multiple titles Mount Holyoke College (BA), Karen Kohlhaas, M. Chekhov Studio @ West 2015, Theatre Communications Group board of directors and is an enrolled member of the Et cetera: mollyparkermyers and mollyparkermyers.org Molly is a former preschool teacher, adjunct Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Sicangu Lakota Nation. professor of musical theatre history, and clown. Mom to Hazel and Flora. TALYA KINGSTON (Director) she/her WAM Theatre: Talya is WAM’s Associate Artistic WAM Theatre: RYLAN MORSBACH* (Caden) he/him The Old Director and oversees the Fresh Takes Play Reading Series and the Community Engagement Mezzo, Photograph 51, Blue Stockings (Fresh Takes Play Reading Series). programming. Talya directed WAM readings of Swallow, Paradise, Campus Unrest and has served Elsewhere: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare and Company), Shrek The as the Production Dramaturg for Lady Randy, ROE. Elsewhere (Directing): Institution (Play by Play Musical!, The Music Man, A Christmas Carol, The Homecoming, Mary Festival), Revolt (The Foundry), The Lonely Soldier Project (immersive testimonial theatre), Elemeno pea, Poppins, Peter Pan, (Berkshire Theatre Group) Atlantis Lost (BTG PLAYS! The Metal Children, Collapse (Beer and a Play), Of Who We Used to Be (Hampshire College), Touring Show), As You Like It (Suffield Players), I Am My Own Wife, You Can’t The Mother of Modern Censorship (UMass), (Dramaturgy): Necessary Targets, Write On! Teen Take It With You (Hubbard Hall), Scaramouche Jones (Pauline Productions). Playwrights Series, My Hartford Teen Performance Ensemble Oral History Project (Hartford Stage), Training: University of North Carolina Wilmington (BA Theatre, BFA Creative Helmet (New York Fringe Festival), Seriously...What Did You Call Me? written and performed by Writing), Barrow Group NYC. Onawumi Jean Moss (Ko Festival), Gum, Christmas Carol, Bovver Boys,The Last Five Years, Life TOM TRUSS* (Jaxton) he/him WAM Theatre: debut Dance: Tom is a Dream, Late Style (UMass, Amherst). Publications: Theater Journal, Scene Magazine, The toured with the Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange(’89-’93), ran his own dance Moving Voice, European Stages, Howlround and The Valley Advocate. Training: MFA University company (’94-’01), was a community artist at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival of Massachusetts, Directing Fellow at Julliard. Etc. Talya is the North-East Regional Vice President of (’94-’99) and taught at American Dance Festival (’93-’98). Education: LMDA and a member of the Northampton Playwrights Lab. MFA in Acting from the University of Texas, MFA in Choreography from the HOPE ROSE KELLY* (Stage Manager) she/her WAM Theatre: Ann, The Last Wife, Holy University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance Laughter, Fresh Takes 2014 & 2015, 24-Hour Play Festival 2013 & 2016. Elsewhere: Hartford from the College of Wooster. He is an AmSAT certified teacher of the Stage Company, Shakespeare & Company, Montana Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Awards: Alexander Technique. Best Choreography - Austin Critics Table Public Theatre in Maine, Stonington Opera House, McCarter Theatre, Wilma Theatre, George Street Awards (HAIR), Best Actor- Austin Critics Table Awards (The Idiot), Best Actor Nominee- B. Iden Payne Playhouse, Hangar Theatre, CLOC. Training: B.A. in Drama - Ithaca College, M.A. in Renaissance Awards (The Idiot). Et Cetera: Currently Tom has a podcast with his nephew called Ask Your Gay and Medieval Theatre History - University of Toronto. Et cetera: Member of Actors’ Equity Association Uncle. He is also creating a solo show called Behind the Tapestry that examines how a family finds (Delegate for Greater Albany Liaison area) and Stage Managers’ Association: serving as Editor in resilience when tragedy strikes, and is devising a multimedia evening length duet called ReWritten Chief on the Board, Chair of the International Cohort, and Vice Regional Rep for New England/ about the love relationship between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Upstate NY. #blacklivesmatter #WeMakeEvents

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JULIANA VON HAUBRICH (Production Designer) she/her Juliana has designed shows for The Arena Stage & Dallas Theatre Center (Ann, 2019); Dorset Theatre Festival/WAM Theatre (Ann, 2018); Shakespeare & Co. (Heisenberg, The Waverly Gallery); WAM Theatre (Melancholy Play, Old Mezzo, Emilie, Holy Laughter, In Darfur, Last Wife, Ann, Lady Randy); Chester Theatre (I And You, Disgraced, Curve of Departure), WAM/Berkshire Theatre Group (Bakelite Masterpiece), The Adirondack Theatre Festival (The Whale). In NYC, Juliana designed for The Acting Company (Pudd’nhead Wilson, Taming of the Shrew), and The Juilliard School (La Cenerentola, Richard II). In LA, she designed for Echo Theatre Company (Uncle Vanya, Ghosts in the Cottonwood). Juliana also worked in television for TNT (Babylon5), BBC (Bugs), and Paramount (Star Trek NG/Voyager). Juliana holds an MFA in Scenic Design from Calarts and is a member of United Scenic Artists Union 829 and IATSE. Online: JvonHdesigns.com. KATARI L. WILSON (Illustrator) she/her WAM Theatre: debut. Katari Wilson is a Sicangu Lakota Woman. Her goal as an artist is to create something that will bring positive attention to the Native American Community. She was born, raised and still resided on the Rosebud Reservation. Through her business “Random Art By K. Wilson”, Katari sells original art pieces in the form of t-shirts, postcards, vinyl stickers and framed prints. She also wrote and illustrated a series of children’s books called “The Adventures of Tyler” which features fictional and non-fictional adventures her toddler has taken. Online: www.facebook.com/RandomArtByKWilson

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WAM Theatre is also supported in part by grants from Alford-Egremont Cultural Council, Lee Cultural Council, Lenox Cultural Council, Pittsfield Cultural Council, Sandisfield Cultural Council, Washington Cultural Council, and the West Stockbridge Cultural Council – local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Funding from Mass Humanities has been provided through the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020.

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HEAVY CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRUCTION SERVICES

Kate Barton Linda Morse Myla Blum Judith Nardacci (Chair, Vicki Bonnington Hospitality Committee) Esther Budnick Bonnie Oloff Carolyn Butler Brenda Oppermann Claudia Cass Shiffra Perlmutter THANK YOU Shelley Chanler Eugenia Reinholt to all of our partners Kimberly Ciola Amelia Reis in building a better Ellen Croibier Tracy Reis Peter Delocis David Rhoads Berkshires for the Mary K. Duffy Linda Rhoads past half century. Wes Elliot Claire Richards Margaret Fluhr Karen Richards (Chair, Lauryn Franzoni Special Events Committee) Bruce Garlow Ellen Ring Evelyn Garvey Gail Ryan John Gillespie Carolyn Sanderson Linda Gillespie Merrill Sanderson

Dorothea Greene Joni Thomas (Chair, MAXYMILLIAN.COM Brian Harrison Ushering Committee) Photo by David Dashiell Beverly Hathaway (Chair, Nancy Tunnicliffe Communications Committee) Abbie von Schlegell Wendy Healey Hannelore Voness Alexandra Heddinger Claire Wernik-Cantone Gena Johnson Mike Zippel Natalie Johnsonius Neubert Jana Laiz Alicia Maher Ellen Manley Dawn A. Martin Rebecka B. McDougall Deirdre McKenna Karen McNulty BOOKKEEPING | ADVISORY | POINT-OF-SALE KD McTeigue Michele Mestman prixfixe.accountants Steven Mestman Marilyn Moran Wishing the WAMily a spectacular season! -with much love from your friends at PFA

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WAM Theatre is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) dedicated to creating opportunities for women and girls through arts and activism. Funding from individual donors, and from public and private institutions, is critically important to realizing our mission. To make a gift or to learn more about WAM’s work, please visit us at: wamtheatre.com/support/ or call 413.274.8122. Donations can also be sent via mail to WAM Theatre PO Box 712, Lenox, MA, 01240