Kickwheel Ensemble Theater

07/26/2019

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05/02/2019

Shout out to Eileen Masiero and her beautiful family for the tremendous support and donation! Go Baba Louies!!!!! THANK YOU

03/06/2018

Kickwheel company member Sara Katzoff and fellow students at the Boston University College of Fine Arts recently collaborated on this letter published in American Theatre magazine

College students question an editorial in which a university professor lamented the hurdles of teaching Kushner’s gay fantasia.

09/19/2016

Congrats to Kickwheel core member Brahce who is featured in this article about Berkshire Theatre Group's Off Broadway run of Fiorello!

Meet the leading players of Fiorello!, who make their Off-Broadway debuts after the Berkshire Theatre Group production unexpectedly transferred to New York City.

09/13/2016

They found the HMS Terror! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt

Exclusive: Perfectly preserved HMS Terror vessel sank during disastrous expedition led by British explorer Sir John Franklin

08/11/2016

Thanks to our incredible community of supporters, friends and champions, PASSAGE was a tremendous success! Kickwheel is so proud to have created and presented a brand new, entirely original production right here in downtown Pittsfield. We had great press, sold-out performances and some incredible conversations with all of you.

Over 350 humans contributed to PASSAGE being brought to life. Whether you attended a performance, housed an artist, supported our campaign, chatted with us at the Farmer’s Market or after a show, volunteered at our load-in or donated a gift to our silent auction we couldn’t have done this without the support of our incredible community of audiences, patrons and collaborators.
And, thanks to each of YOU, we have officially surpassed our 2016 fundraising goal with over 100 donors!


THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS

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Adrienne Rothstein Cohen & Mark Lawrence Cohen
Alex Maroni & Natalie Kimmelman Maroni
Amy Brentano & Adam Weinberg
Amy Rudnick
Andrea & Dan Patel
Andrea Feldman
Annette Grant & Jonathan Baumbach
Arthur Oliver
Barby Cardillo
Berkshire Country Day School
Bjorn Somlo
Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Caitlin Nash
Callen Gardner
Carr Hardware
Carrie Burke
Charity Journeys
Charles DiCapua
Chris Tucci
Christopher Marianetti
CompuWorks
Crispina Ffrench & Chris Swindlehurst
Dan Bernitt
Daniel Devin
David Belanger
David Katzoff
David T. Little & Eileen Mack
Deborah Miller
Deborah Moore
Don & Phoebe Sugarman
Dorothy & Curtis Drummond
Doug & Sara Goudey
Dr. Jay Wise and Dr. Casey Jones
Elaine Lifter and Millbrook School
Ellen Kisslinger
Emma Dweck
Enrico Spada
Estelle Bajou
Evan & Emily Thomson Hickok
Felissa Rose Gero & Dick Gero
The Floor Store -West Stockbridge
Gail Kaphan
Gale Kaufman
Gillian Gorman Rabin & Radiance Yoga
Glenn Koetzner
Amy & John Hilliard
Howard Katzoff
Jacquelyn Gianetti
James Ascroft
James Moore & Mila Henry-Moore
Jana Laiz
Jane Mcelduff
Jay & Terry Wise
Jeffrey Diamond & Diane Pearlman
Jennie Burkhard Jadow
Jessica Vecchia
Jessica Hahn & Zachary Green
Jill Mongeau
Joel & Anne Rosen
Joel & Diane Schapira
John & Marcia Miner
John Beck
Jonathan Cole
Jonathan Swartz
Jordan Goyette
Josh Bradley
Josh Adam Ramos
Judy, George and Carlisle Veale
Juliana Haubrich
June Ough
Kahlia Russell-Self
Katherine Fetterolf
Katherine Simmons
Kathleen Sansone
Kathy Lloyd
Kristen van Ginhoven & Nick Webb
Laura Aden Packer
Laura Standley
Laurence Hausman
Leah Marie Parker
Lenore & Paul Sundberg
Lloyd Johnson & Joel Laski
Luminix Light
Marc J. Wrzesinski Photography
Marcus Neverson
Margaret Hornick
Margot Faught
Marguerite De Santis
Martin Filion
Mary Anne & Drew Hicks
Max Ehrman-Shapiro
Metropolitan Gay Tennis Gamblers Association
Julian Claire Mia Kang
Michael Brahce
Michael Cunningham
Mitchell Jacob McCauley
Molly Clancy
Myla Blum
Nancy Neuman
Nancy Nirenberg
Nathan Koci
Natalie Johnsonius Neubert
Owen Langbart
Pat & Charlie Walters
Patricia Brentano Bramnick
Patrick Toole
Paul Lindenmeier
Paul Rissman & Donna Conforti
Peter & Ellen Rowntree
Phil Deely & Hilary Somers Deely
Philip Shedd
Downtown Pittsfield Farmers Market
Rebecca McTavish
Robert Dweck
Rudi Bach
Ruth Ballenzweig
Timothy Ryan Olson & Tyler Fereira
Sally Ridgeway
Sara Katzoff & Peter Wise
Sarah Petersiel
Second Nature Garden Design
Shakespeare & Company
Shannon McMahon Lichte
Shera Cohen
Socrates James Triantafillou
Spoon Restaurant
Stella Giulietta
Steve & Mary Yarmosky
Sue Killam / MASS MoCA
Sylvia Tan
Tim & Kay Olson
Tim Cryan
Tracy Wilson & David Wampler
Veronica Sniezek
Vlada Rousseff
WAM Theatre
Wes Elliot
Yuki Cohen/Methuselah Bar & Lounge
Zack Page

08/04/2016

Our last (but definitely not least!) "meet the Passage team" post features Kickwheel core member and Passage director Sara Katzoff. Here's a little photo of her from our 2012 production of Dark: An end of the World Play with Music and an Exercise Bike.

A theater maker, director and performer, Sara is the co-founder of Bazaar Productions and The Berkshire Fringe, where she has spent the last decade devising, developing and curating new work for the stage. Recent directing collaborations include: PASSAGE (Kickwheel Ensemble Theater); Facing Our Truth (Colonial Theatre); Everywoman (WAM Theatre/SUNY Albany); The Motherf**ker With the Hat, Noises Off, Dog Sees God (Mass College of Liberal Arts); and The Waypoint (MASS MoCA, artist in residence). As a performer, Sara has toured nationally with Landis & Company and Dell’Arte and appeared in My Children.... My Africa! (Rattler Productions); Othello (Infamous Genius Theater); Shotgun Wedding (Dell’Arte Company); 900 Dreams (Spencertown Academy) and DARK: An End of the World Play with Music and an Exercise Bike (Mixed Company, Berkshire Fringe). Sara is a founding company member of Kickwheel, a graduate of the Dell’Arte International and holds a B.A in performance studies from Bard College at Simon’s Rock. She is currently a guest director in the Fine and Performing Arts program at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, SUNY Albany works as a freelance theater artist and educator throughout the Northeast.

08/03/2016

Check out this awesome letter to the editor about our production of Passage! Published yesterday in the Berkshire Eagle.

Kickwheel's 'Passage' was captivating theater To the editor: On July 30 I went to Kickwheel Ensemble's production of "Passage" at the Shire City Sanctuary on Melville Street in Pittsfield.

08/02/2016

We continue to receive fabulous feedback for Passage! And we literally couldn't have done it without Kickwheel core member, producer, and sound designer Peter Wise!

Peter grew up playing music in the Berkshires and studied percussion at SUNY Stony Brook and the Eastman School of Music, where he received the school’s first certificate in World Music. He has played with an eclectic array of musical ensembles and bands including Newspeak, Forever House, JG Thirlwell’s Maxorexia and Bobby Previte's VooDoo Orchestra. He has also toured as a percussionist with several innovative stage productions including Jason Craig and Dave Malloy's Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage and David T. Little's opera Dog Days. As sound designer for stage, credits include:Five Flights (Mixed Company), The Scissor Tango Variations (Bard College at Simon’s Rock), The Waypoint (Mass MoCA) and the world premiere of DARK: An End of the World Play with Music and an Exercise Bike, which he composed alongside playwright/lyricist Timothy Ryan Olson. Peter is a founder and co-artistic director of Bazaar Productions (Kickwheel Ensemble Theater/The Berkshire Fringe) and also owns and operates Square Candy Design, a boutique website design and development studio.

08/01/2016

Kickwheel is so incredibly grateful to our whole team, our amazingly generous donors, Shire City Sanctuary, and the entire community for an incredible run of Passage! We didn't quite get through all of our "meet the team" posts, and don't want to leave anyone out, so we will continue posting a few of them this week.

Meet Passage stage manager Kathleen Sansone. We are SO grateful to her for all of her hard work on Passage!

Kathleen says: I make theater because it's how I can make a difference. In a world clouded by violence and hate, I have organizational skills and a mild obsession with Microsoft Excel - which hardly feels helpful in the grand scheme of things. Theater allows me to contribute these skills to a group of humans who want to fill the world with knowledge and love.

Kathleen Sansone a stage manager and arts administrator, is making her Kickwheel Ensemble Theater debut with PASSAGE. She is a recent graduate of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts with a BA in Arts Management. Past MCLA credits include “Noises Off” and “Dog Sees God” (dir. Sara Katzoff), “Romeo & Juliet”, “Angels in America”, “Spring Awakening” and more. She has also interned for MASS MoCA and Barrington Stage Company. In the spirit of activism, Kathleen will be stage managing three short plays on gun violence to be produced by Common Folk Artist Collective come fall.