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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><u><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>OPENING THIS FRIDAY<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#4E95D9'>Constance Lopez & Lora Lee Ecobelli present a new work by Byron Nilsson:</span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#0070C0'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:48.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#0070C0'>Girl With A Camera<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#0070C0'>To be performed in the Marilyn & Bob Laurie Gallery at the Claverack Library May 9<sup>th</sup> thru 18<sup>th</sup></span><sup><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'><o:p></o:p></span></sup></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#0070C0'>For tickets, please call 518-758-1648<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Contact: Constance Lopez<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'> (office) 518-329-6293 (cell) 518-610-2896<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>GIRL WITH A CAMERA – a new work by author Byron Nilsson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>COPAKE, NY – Constance Lopez & Lora Lee Ecobelli are pleased to announce the upcoming production of <b><i>Girl With A Camera, </i></b>a new work by Byron Nilsson<b> opening Friday, May 9<sup>th</sup>, 2025 at the Claverack Free Library.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>How does a creative artist come to terms with sudden fame? Photographer <i>Ivy Wilmot</i> found success as a photo-journalist but became a public figure when she married a movie star. As the marriage unraveled, so too did her career. There was another man in love with her – but he was the FBI agent investigating her father. <b><i>Girl With A Camera</i></b> shows us a <b>life that couldn’t be constrained in the borders of a photograph.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Girl With A Camera </span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>will open Friday, May 9, 2025 and performs May 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 18, closing Sunday May 18, 2025. Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances, curtain is at 7:30 pm, Sunday curtain is 3:00 pm. For tickets and reservations please call (518) 758-1648. The author will hold a talk-back session after the Friday May 9 and Thursday May 15 performances.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>This production is being presented under the auspices of the Actors' Equity Association Members' Project Code. The producers are grateful for the collaboration of The Claverack Library, Blue Horse Repertory Company and RARE, Inc/The Two of Us Productions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Co-Producer Lora Lee Ecobelli is an award-winning actress, filmmaker, writer, director and teacher. As an actress, Lora Lee has performed both On and Off-Broadway and in regional theatres throughout the country in leading roles from the contemporary to the classics. She can also be seen in many independent films and television. Lora Lee is the recipient of the Harold Clurman award for best leading actress in an Off Broadway Play for her performance in <i>The Vice</i> by Luigi Pirandello. Lora Lee is also a writer, director and film maker and the Artistic Director of the Blue Horse Repertory Company. Lora Lee is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Co-Producer Constance Lopez is an actress, director and young children’s theater educator. She has performed in classics, musicals and contemporary dramas and comedies both regionally and Off Broadway, originating the roles of Natalya Puskin in <i>Pushkin – A Poet’s Search for Honor</i> and Pauline in <i>The Widow and the West Indian Workman</i>. Connie has also appeared in a variety of films and television. She is the Artistic Director for RARE, Inc/The Two of Us Productions. Connie is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Author Byron Nilsson is an active writer and stage performer. As an actor he has worked with the NYS Theatre Institute, appearing in <i>1776, Miracle on 34th Street, A Wonderful Life, Fiorello!, Around the World in 80 Days, </i>and with many other companies including the Lake George Opera, Syracuse Opera, and Musicians of Ma’alwyck. Byron also presents a cabaret show with pianist Malcolm Kogut, <a href="http://www.songstoamuse.com/" target="_blank"><i>Songs to Amuse</i></a> which does, they hope, just that, presenting an array of funny and forgotten ditties that reach back to vaudeville and music-hall days. As a script & music writer some of his produced shows include <a href="http://www.mr-sensitivity.com/" target="_blank"><i>Mr. Sensitivity</i></a> as part of the 2009 NY Fringe Festival; <i>Drivers </i>at Ensemble Studio Theatre; the one-act musical <i>iFind You @ Last </i>with music by Tom Savoy; and his cantata <i>Buxtehude’s Daughter with </i>the Musicians of Ma’alwyck. Byron is a member of Actors Equity, SAG-AFTRA, and the Dramatists Guild.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Cast includes Constance Lopez as Ivy, Lora Lee Ecobelli as Nancy, Andrew Joffe as Julius, Jonathan Tarpy as Marc, Linda Storms as Jeanne and Steve Leifer as Lester. Directed by Stephen Sanborn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>WHAT: </span></b><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Girl With A Camera, </span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>a new work by Byron Nilsson</span><s><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></s></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>WHEN: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>May 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 18, closing Sunday May 18, 2025. Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances, curtain is at 7:30 pm, Sunday curtain is 3:00 pm.</span><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>WHERE: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>The </span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Marilyn & Bob Laurie Gallery at the <span style='color:black'>Claverack Library, located at 629 NY-23B, Claverack, NY 12513, right on the corner of Rt. 23 & Rt. 9H. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>TICKETS: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for Students & Seniors. Please call for Group Rates. For advance reservations </span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>please <span style='color:black'>call 518-758-1648. Make your reservations early for the best seats on the date you want!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>