by Lisa Loomer Directed by Kristen van Ginhoven Season Sponsors: We’re very grateful to our 2020 Corporate Sponsors and our four main ROE sponsors for making it possible to present this special digital production: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Brabson Library & Educational Foundation, Maggie and Don Buckwald, and Mass Humanities. presents ROE by Lisa Loomer Online October 17-20, 2020 CREATIVE TEAM: AMY ALTADONNA (she/her) ... Sound Designer DR. LAURA BRIGGS (she/her) ... Scholar-In-Residence DEBORAH BROTHERS (she/her) ... Costume Designer ESSENTIAL PARTNERS ... Dialogue Consultants JULIANA VON HAUBRICH (she/her) ... Production Designer AJA M JACKSON (she/her) ... Lighting Designer HOPE ROSE KELLY* (she/her) ... Stage Manager TALYA KINGSTON (she/her) ... Dramaturg TRENDA LOFTIN (she/her) ... BIPOC Staff and Advocate KRISTEN VAN GINHOVEN (she/her) ... Director ROE 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. World Premiere Commissioned and Produced by The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Bill Rauch, Artistic Director; Paul Nicholson, Executive Director) Excerpts from “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” by Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne used with permission of the Owners; © 1959 (Renewed) Stratford Music Corporation (ASCAP) and Williamson Music, Inc. (ASCAP); All rights administered by Chappell & Co., Inc.; All rights reserved ©2020. This video recording was produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service and Lisa Loomer. All rights reserved. This performance is authorized for non-commercial use only. By accepting the video recording, you agree not to authorize or permit the video recording to be copied, distributed, broadcast, telecast or otherwise exploited, in whole or in part, in any media now known or hereafter developed. *Member of Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. page 2 Learn more at WAMTheatre.com page 3 Learn more at WAMTheatre.com Meet Activism Arts & Where Northeast Regional Premiere Branding Museum Design Dear WAMily, PRESENTS Logos Who knew our 11th year would feature our first ever digital production? Proactive design Proactive by Kate Hennig directed by Kelly Galvin Symbols Given its early success, it took us three years to get the rights to ROE. And then COVID hit. Exhibit Design – Globe and Mail RAOUL October 13 - November “…lively…unapologetic” 5 SILVER After committing to our biggest production ever, in the most important election year ever, we ALICIA PIEMME NELSON Featuring LILY A modern take on Katherine Parr’s marriageLINKE to Henry VIII DAVID thought ‘what now?’ – Chicago Tribune “a very smart piece of writing”JOSEPH JOHN Photo by Sabine Von Falken Von Sabine by Photo HADDEN NEHASSAIU deGANNES “Hugely entertaining” ONLY! Guidelines - The Times (London) WEEKEND When the pandemic was followed by the racial uprisings, all of us at WAM knew we had to ONE MAYA hilarious new 4show starring& 5 Presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre internationally acclaimed comedienne Alison Larkin find a way to tell this resonant story about Reproductive Justice. Interpretive Design Interpretive Friday, May 4 @ 7:30pm; Saturday, May 5 @ 2pm and 7:30pm Schedule: $30-$40. $60 VIP tickets include WAMTheatrean exclusive post .com Unfortunately, it is more timely than ever. Tickets: show Champagne reception with Alison, May 5 @ 7:30pm only Presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, 70 Kemble St., Lenox For tickets or information, visit As you watch, you will be amazed to know that the actors had a mere 25 hours of rehearsal, and they were never in the same place together. Instead, they were all in their homes acting with green screens while holding their scripts. Annual Report Collateral Materials As you watch, know that the creative team magically switched all their ideas from a live 2017 theatre production to a digital production in the last few short months, and that we have all become experts in a plethora of new technologies while gaining essential collaborators across new disciplines. I have the utmost admiration for all the ROE artists who showed nothing but grace and gratitude throughout this steep learning curve. Together, in a very short time, we dreamed up the digital production you are about to watch. support changed WAM in 2017 Digital Design Print www.WAMTheatre.com/education We leapt into the unknown and are immensely grateful to you, our WAMily, for taking the Here’s how YOUR contact: [email protected] Innovative Solutions We’re a one-stop shop for all your graphic leap with us. Brochures Brochures design needs from branding to marketing We are grateful to the playwright, Lisa Loomer, for entrusting us with this first digital production communications to museum display challenges. of her play, and to the sponsors who were dedicated to making sure this story came to life. 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We also believe that “comfortable” is for binge-watching Netflix In solidarity, in our sweatpants, so we push those ideas in new and exciting Kristen directions. But we never design for our portfolio; we create graphic designs for the real world to make your business E-newsletters 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 - If you haven’t read our 2019 Annual Report yet, I hope you will. It’s extraordinary to see the impact YOU have T Square Design Studio made in our first ten years. 413-274-0010 [email protected] tsquare.design page 4 Learn more at WAMTheatre.com page 5 Learn more at WAMTheatre.com Land Acknowledgement About WAM Theatre As part of WAM Theatre’s commitment to acknowledging WAM Theatre is a professional theatre company based in and working towards building relationships with the Berkshire County, MA, USA, that operates at the intersection Indigenous Tribes, Nations, and Peoples on whose land we of arts and activism. WAM creates theatre for gender equity live and work, we begin all our public gatherings with a and has a vision of theatre as philanthropy. land acknowledgement. Since we all worked from different places, we wanted to acknowledge the various ancestral WAM Theatre’s Mission & Vision homelands or unceded lands our artists worked from on this digital production: The ancestral homeland of the Mohican Every time an audience comes together for a theatrical Tribe, the Wabanaki Confederacy, the unceded land of event, a community is formed. WAM Theatre engages that Nipmuk and Pocumtuc Nations, Munsee Lenape Land, community by producing theatrical events for everyone, with Wappinger and Lenape land, the land of the Massachusetts a focus on women theatre artists and/or stories of women and Tribe at Ponkapoag, the Pauquunaukit (Wampanoag), and the girls, and by donating a portion of the proceeds from those Haudenosaunee Nation. theatrical events to organizations that work to benefit the lives of women and girls in our communities and worldwide. 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