NOSIPHO MNYANDU
Nosipho Mnyandu is a Housemother to six children at Mother of Peace, Illovo. She grew up in Adam’s Mission , a few kilometres from Illovo. She is a single mother ...
NOMUSA NGCONGO
Nomusa is one of the longest serving housemothers at Mother of Peace, Illovo. She is a Chief Housemother who is also responsible for general communication and dissemination of information amongst ...
BUSISIWE LORRAINE MANYONI
Busisiwe, referred to as Lorraine, is one of the initial Housemothers at Mother of Peace, Illovo. Her family unit was torn apart due to inter-racial conflict between her birth parents. ...
NOMFUNDO NGWANE
Nomfundo Ngwane is a housemother in St Mathews, the only “Boys Only” house at Mother of Peace, Illovo. She is responsible for seven teenage boys at MoP. She grew up ...
How Do You Measure “A Difference”? – An Interview with Playwright Winter Miller
Award-winning playwright Winter Miller is the author of our 2014 Fall Show In Darfur which was inspired by what she saw as New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s researcher at ...
Why Does “In Darfur” Scare Kristen van Ginhoven?
Donate Now I am scared. I am scared that our audience won’t come, that new audiences who have heard of WAM and are curious to come see a ...
Berkshires, Blog, Events, Featured, Guest Blogs
Leigh Strimbeck On Five Seasons
Leigh Strimbeck is a familiar face in the Capital Region. She is a writer, actor, teacher, director and was part of WAM Theatre’s early years as co-founder. While no longer ...
Playwright Trina Davies on Theatre-Making
Our Fresh Takes Series concludes this September with Waxworks by Trina Davies. Davies is a writer, director and actor. Her award-winning plays include Multi User Dungeon (Alberta Playwrights Network Discovery ...
How Cynthia Wade creates change…
Cynthia Wade won the Academy Award in 2008 for her short documentary Freeheld, about a dying policewoman’s fight to leave her pension to her female life partner. Wade is now producing the ...
Berkshires, Kristen's Blogs, Uncategorized
Kat Koppett Asks: “What Would Kristen Do?”
Leading up to the August 24 ‘ Change Makers’ benefit, as WAM celebrates its fifth season, we take a look back at the people who helped get us here. Kat Koppett is ...