[Capdist-announce] Best of Short Fiction from Area Writers at Ancram Opera House

[Lauren Letellier]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

*Contact: *Lauren Letellier

pr at ancramoperahouse.org

917-747-5250



*Ancram Opera House Kicks Off Fall Season Sept. 23 with Crystal Radio
Sessions *

*Contemporary Short Fiction Brought to Life in Readings by Professional
Actors*



Returning for its fifth year, audience favorite *Crystal Radio Sessions* will
kick off fall programming at the Ancram Opera House on Saturday, September
23 at 7pm. This popular event, modeled after Symphony Space’s “Selected
Shorts” series, features the best of short fiction from writers in the
Hudson Valley and Berkshires, read aloud by professional actors.



The live performance will feature J. Arthur Boyle’s “Angela Lives,” where a
woman’s apartment takes on a life of its own; and Pamela Ryder’s “The
Tintype of Billy the Kid,” where an itinerant tintypist makes his living
taking portraits of the dead (content warning: this story contains themes
and depictions of death, childbirth complications, and mortality which may
be upsetting to some viewers).



The stories will be read by Frank Boyd, whose *The Holler Sessions* was
presented by Ancram Opera House in 2017, and Leigh Strimbeck, a busy
regional actor who will be seen as Amanda in *The Glass Menagerie* in an
upcoming Bridge St. Theatre production.



Crystal Radio Sessions is curated by Ashley Mayne, author of the novels
Mankiller (2014), and Tiger (2015).



Tickets are $25 general admission ($15 with student ID) and are available
at www.ancramoperahouse.org. Audiences are welcome to join the authors and
actors for a glass of wine around the outdoor fire pit after the event.





*About the Authors *



J. Arthur Boyle’s fiction has appeared in Fence, RECLINER, Forever, and
elsewhere, and critical work has appeared in Verso, Publisher's Weekly, and
Vol. 1 Brooklyn. He received an MFA from Columbia University, where he was
a teaching fellow and teaches writing at CUNY. He is currently an
artist-in-residency at the Wassaic Project. More of his work can be found
at jarthurboyle.com.



Pamela Ryder is the author of a short story collection, *A Tendency to Be
Gone*, and two novels in stories, *Correction of Drift* and *Paradise Field*
. *The Tintype of Billy the Kid* is from a new novel about that young
desperado on the run at the end of his short and violent life.
pamelaryder.com



*About the Performers*



Frank Boyd is an actor-writer based in the Hudson Valley. Selected theater
credits include *Gatz* (Public Theatre); *Is This a Room (*Vineyard
Theatre); *Straight White Men* (Center Theatre Group); *The Select* (NYTW);
and *The Holler Sessions* (P.S. 122, Ancram Opera House, Guthrie Theater).
Film/TV: *FBI, Blue Bloods, Z Nation, Thin Skin. *Frank is a new dad, and
the owner/operator of a vintage clothing store, Clubhouse Vintage, in
Rosendale, NY. Photo credit: John Ulman https://flic.kr/p/2p2NiCT



Leigh Strimbeck is an actor, writer and educator. Recent credits include
Eleanor in *Lion in Winter; *Alice in *Lewiston (*Bridge Street Theatre);
Leonata in *Much Ado About Nothing* (Saratoga Shakespeare); Virginia Butley
in *Native Gardens* (Gloucester Stage Company); Madame Arcati in *Blithe
Spirit* and Kate Keller in *All My Sons* (Voice Theatre of Woodstock);
Tippy in *Breakwater* (Great Barrington Public Theater). More regional
theater: The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble; WAM; The Rep; Shakespeare and Co
*.* Films: *UnCivil Liberties,* *Fighting for Freedom*, *Little BiPeep* and
Lifetime Movie Network’s *Off the Rails *and *Sleeping with My Student; *short
films* Key Transition, Life Quest *and in production:* Blind Man's
Buff.  *Leigh
heads the Acting Program for NY State Defenders Association Basic Trial
Skills program and is the author of the one-woman play* The Queen of Fenway
Court: Isabella Stewart Gardner, *as well as several other plays. Photo
credit: Jeffrey Hornstein https://flic.kr/p/2p2NiCT





Ancram Opera House is an award-winning theater located in New York's Hudson
Valley. Housed in an historic Grange Hall, AOH has since 2016 presented
groundbreaking theater and musical performances by nationally recognized
theater artists. AOH receives significant annual support from the New York
State Council on the Arts and in 2023 was awarded a generous grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts. For more information visit

www.ancramoperahouse.org.




   - Crystal Radio Sessions
   - Saturday, Sept. 23, 7pm
   - Ancram Opera House, *1330 County Route 7, Ancram, NY, 12502*
   - $25 general admission ($15 with student ID)
   - Tickets: www.ancramoperahouse.or <http://www.ancramoperahouse.org>g
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