Joan Coombs (she/her) is a Berkshire based actor with a long career history in Planned Parenthood and reproductive health and rights. Current role with WAM Theatre: Vi in Escaped Alone. WAM Theatre: Escaped Alone (first reading), Emilie (New England Premiere and reprise) Selected Theatre Credits Elsewhere: Pride and Prejudice (Dorset Theatre Festival), Tartuffe, Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Shakespeare and Company), All My Sons (Hubbard Hall), Don’t Talk to the Actors, Moon Over Buffalo, The Hollow (The Theater Barn), Death of a Salesman (Curtain Call Theatre).  Film: Like Lambs, Narration: Thousand Years to Wait, Kingdom of Hamelot. Creative inspiration: In her other work as a nonprofit consultant, she is inspired by her clients’ missions, and experiences their work and service as stories every bit as compelling as the stories we tell on stage. Membership/Affiliations: Actors Equity Association. Selected training: Shakespeare & Co, Michael Chekhov School. Proudest achievement: Radically reinvented herself three times, and at 60 – as an actor.