Join WAM’s NEXT ACT FUND and keep WAM’S impact going strong! The show goes on…

After 14 years, Kristen stepped down as WAM’s artistic leader. The WAM Team and Board are committed to bringing on visionary new artistic leadership by January 2024.

Thanks to you, WAM Theatre has made an incredible impact and created countless opportunities for women and girls in our community.

Help WAM stay strong during this pivotal time of transition, honor Kristen’s legacy of creating opportunity for women and girls through arts and activism, and set up a pathway to success for WAM’s next artistic leader. Make a special one time gift to WAM’s NEXT ACT FUND.

Your gift will ensure WAM’s future and honor Kristen for what she created and has grown these past 14 years.

Showing EARLY support for new leaders is the single most important way to guarantee their success and the ongoing success of the organization.

YOU believe WAM is making a difference for women and girls through arts and activism. YOU have seen WAM’s impact in our community.

YOU know it must continue.

The WAM Board and Team all agree. They have created a thoughtful and intentional plan for new artistic leadership at WAM, including the launch of the WAM NEXT ACT FUND, which they have also pledged to support.

WAM’s NEXT ACT FUND is a special $100,000 fund that will safeguard, sustain, amplify, and uplift WAM’s next chapter. Can we count on you to also fuel WAM’s Next Act Fund?

Your gift will inspire others to give as well. Your special donation is the strength and support WAM needs to ensure a smooth, stable transition from one transformative artistic director to another.

Help empower the next WAM leaders, create a successful transition, and, most importantly, ensure WAM’s mission continues during this vital time.

Your early support is crucial. Don’t delay; make a gift today. Sign our attached Pledge Card. Thank you for being a changemaker and champion of WAM.

On behalf of the WAM Team & Board,

Toni Buckely, Board President

Erica Barretto, Vice President

Molly Merrihew, Managing Director

WAM is grateful to the following organizations and individuals who have already contributed to the Next Act Fund. By creating this match, they ensure WAM’s legacy of creating opportunity for women and girls through arts and activism continues, and help set up the pathway of success for WAM’s next artistic leader.

Next Act Fund Supporters: Anonymous, Abbie von Schlegell, Arwen Lowbridge & Mike Lane, Ashley & Brad Berridge, Berkshire Bank, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Cathy & Henry Terwedow, Estelle Miller, Hannelore Voness, Interprint, Jayne Atkinson-Gill and Michel Gill, Jean Koester, Lynn & Richard Atkinson, Lynn Gernert, Marion Brothers, Martha Richards, Peter Hofman, Vicki Bonnington, WAM Theatre’s Board of Directors Giving Circle, and the WomenArts.