Talya Kingston (Production Dramaturg) is a playwright, dramaturg and educator who is inspired by the live interactions between artists and audiences and how these can be a catalyst for social change. Selected WAM Theatre Credits: dramaturgy (What the Constitution Means to Me, Roe, Lady Randy), direction (Me & the Sky, The Thanksgiving Play, Paradise, Swallow), playwright (Port of Entry, Campus Unrest). Selected Dramaturgy Credits Elsewhere: Hartford Stage (Necessary Targets), New York Fringe Festival (Helmet), Ko Festival (Seriously.. What Did You Call Me? Written and performed by Onawumi Jean Moss), UMass, Amherst (Gum, Christmas Carol, Bovver Boys, The Last Five Years, Life is a Dream, Late Style) Playwriting: Port of Entry, Circling Suspicion (Plays In Place at Historic Northampton), Campus Unrest (finalist in the 2019 Bechtel Test Fest), Wave Goodbye (2020 PLAYground TYA Festival at NorthWestern University, semi- finalist for Provincetown Playhouse’s New Plays for Young Audiences), Sheryl Addresses the PGO (The New England Monologues Project), Wishing on Satellites, Anxiety Overdrive. Publications: Journal of American Drama and Theater, Scene Magazine, Theater Journal, The Moving Voice, European Stages, Howlround and The Valley Advocate. Selected training: MFA in dramaturgy, University of Massachusetts. Memberships/affiliations: proud member of the Northampton Playwrights Lab, the Play Incubation Collective, the Dramatists Guild and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.
Archives
Masatora Goya
Masatora Goya (Sound Designer) is a composer, born in Malaysia and raised in Japan, finding a shape and flow in intangible emotions. WAM Theatre: fragments of Outside. Selected Theatre Credits Elsewhere: OUTSIDE (Culture Lab LIC), Echo and Narcissus (Shortened Attention Span Musical Festival), Dog Life (Smithfield Little Theatre) Selected training: DMA in Composition – Five Towns College, ASCAP/Columbia Film Scoring Workshop, BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop Awards/proudest achievements: 2022 American Prize in Instrumental Chamber Music Final word: Inspiration comes from what can be felt but is intangible. Connect: www.masatoragoya.com
Drishti Chauhan
Drishti Chauhan (Scenic Apprentice) is an Indian production designer based in NYC interested in working on funny, queer and feminist stories. WAM Theatre: Debut. Selected Theatre Credits Elsewhere: Lighting Designer for Smart People (Silverthorne Theater). Scenic Designer for Twelfth Night, Into the Woods, Orlando, Dance Nation, The Hatmaker’s Wife, Allegory of a Young Man, Webgirl (UMass Amherst.) Additional artistic credits: Installation Designer and Fabricator for Sculptural Installation for Kids Education Revolution Annual Meet, India and Possibilities Teach for India Annual Meet, India. Membership/Affiliations: Design Action, Rise Theatre and ITA (Immigrant Theater Makers ) Selected training: MFA in Scenic Design and Technology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Internship with Broadway Scenic Designer David Zinn; B.Des in Interior Design Connect: www.drishtichauhandesign.com
Wesley Scanlon
Wesley Scanlon (Technical Director)
Malorie R. Grillo
Malorie R. Grillo (Costume & Props Designer) is a Costa Rican theater artist-designer based in Massachusetts. Previous WAM Credits: Costume and Props Designer Fragments of the Outside, Costume Consultant, Me & the Sky Cabaret. Selected Theatre Credits: Costume designer Bulrusher (Silverthorne theater), director and costume designer Allegory of a Young Man, costume and puppet designer Twelfth Night, costume designer The Hatmaker’s Wife, Aurash, Los Olvidados (UMASS Amherst), Costume Designer MACHINAL (University of Costa Rica), Costume Design Assistant The house the Negro insane (CATF), Costume Designer Desconoci2 (La Cebolla Producciones), Writer Maldita Golondrina (Teatro Mélico Salazar Costa Rica), Director and writer Naufragos O… (Metafora Estudio). A passion for theater since 2009, Actress, director, writer, designer, makeup artist and art director for short films. Selected training: MFA in Costume Design for Theater, UMASS Amherst, BA Degree from the University of Costa Rica. Awards: Best National Short Play Maldita Golondrina (2020) Teatro Melico Salazar, Costa Rica Connect: maloriegrillo.com