[Capdist-announce] PRESS RELEASE: Ancram Opera House Announces 2022 Fall Season

[Gail Burns]

September 7, 2022

CONTACT: Gail M. Burns

www.ancramoperahouse.org

pr at ancramoperahouse.org; 413-458-4246

PRESS PHOTOS: https://tinyurl.com/2hyw2nh8

ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE ANNOUNCES 2022 FALL SEASON

ANCRAM, NY [September 7, 2022] - Co-Directors Jeffrey Mousseau and Paul
Ricciardi are proud to announce the 2022 fall season at the Ancram Opera
House in Ancram, NY.

“We are excited to welcome audiences back to the Opera House for our fall
season which includes a highly anticipated revival of Emily Mann’s Obie
Award-winning documentary play, Still Life,” says Paul Ricciardi; with
Jeffrey Mousseau adding, “the project extends an examination of war and its
impact on all of us which we initiated last season with our acclaimed
production of An Iliad.”

The fall season opens with STILL LIFE by Emily Mann, directed by Jade King
Carroll, in a co-production with the New York City-based Playhouse
Creatures Theatre Company, on September 30-October 9 at the Ancram Opera
House. Tickets are $35.

STILL LIFE is a searing and revealing documentary play about the immediate
aftermath of the Vietnam conflict on a former marine, his wife, and his
mistress, gleaned from interviews and refined to illuminate the post war
experience. The play provides a poignant snapshot of America in the
turbulent 1970s–a country in the throes of an unpopular war abroad and
social upheaval at home. STILL LIFE is generously sponsored by Manon and
Ian Slome.

CRYSTAL RADIO SESSIONS: UPSTATE, the reading series curated by Ashley Mayne
devoted to transmitting compelling literary expression through the ether.
Saturday, October 29 at 7 pm at the Ancram Opera House. Tickets are
$25. CRYSTAL
RADIO SESSIONS: UPSTATE is generously sponsored by the Copake Wine Works
and Oblong Books.

The fall edition of the popular storytelling series, REAL PEOPLE REAL
STORIES takes place on Sunday, November 13 at 3 pm at the Ancram Opera
House. Everyone has a story to tell. With each edition of Real People,
local residents share their stories with the community. Tickets are $25. REAL
PEOPLE REAL STORIES is generously sponsored by the Copake General Store.



This fall, AOH artists are once again leading storytelling workshops with
all 4th, 5th and 6th graders at Taconic Hills Central School modeled on the
REAL PEOPLE REAL STORIES approach, helping each of the more than 300
students to develop and tell a story about a memorable event in their life.
On Saturday, November 5 at 2pm students’ stories will live streamed free
from the AOH stage. Reservations are required in order to receive a link to
this virtual event.

AOH's storytelling initiative at Taconic Hills CSD has been made possible
through a grant from the Fund for Columbia County of the Berkshire Taconic
Community Foundation.

For tickets and more information visit www.ancramoperahouse.org.

2022 FALL SEASON AT-A-GLANCE

Still Life

by Emily Mann

Directed by Jade King Carroll

Co-produced with Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company

September 30-October 9

Thursday, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7p

Saturdays, Sundays at 2p

at AOH, 1330 County Route 7, Ancram 12502

Tickets: $35

Pay-What-You-Will Thursday, October 8



Crystal Radio Sessions Upstate

Saturday, October 29 at 7 pm

at AOH, 1330 County Route 7, Ancram 12502

Tickets: $25



Real People Real Stories - Taconic Hills

Saturday, November 5 at 2 pm

Live streamed FREE from the Ancram Opera House

Reservations required

Real People Real Stories

Sunday, November 13 at 2 pm

at AOH, 1330 County Route 7, Ancram 12502

Tickets: $25



BIOS

Jeffrey Mousseau is co-director of the Ancram Opera House and an
award-winning director (2018 Berkshire Theatre Critics Award, Homebody).
With AOH, he has directed Invasion!; An Iliad, which he re-staged at
Shakespeare & Co. in June; The Snow Queen; Aunt Leaf, subsequently
presented in Aguascalientes, Mexico; Homebody; We’re Gonna Die; and In
Praise of Elephants. His directing credits include a residency at the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His work has been seen at HERE
in NYC; Olana, where he conceived and directed a site-specific new work;
Hudson Opera House; and Stageworks/Hudson. As Artistic Director of the
Elliot Norton and IRNE award-winning Coyote Theater in Boston, he directed
many productions over the course of his ten-year tenure. Guest
artist/lecturer: Brandeis University, Emerson College, The University at
Albany, Siena College.

Paul Ricciardi is co-director of the Ancram Opera House and teaches the
theater’s acting and voice classes. He is an Associate Professor on the
theatre faculty at the City University of New York/Kingsborough
CC. Previously he taught at Siena College, The University at Albany, and
Rhode Island College. He is Immediate Past Co-Chair for Region I of the
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and a two-time recipient
of the Kennedy Center National Teaching Artist Award. He received his MFA
in Acting from Trinity Repertory Company, and studied with renowned vocal
coach Kristin Linklater, receiving his Linklater Teacher Designation in
2012. Paul is also a director and voice/speech/dialect coach.  Paul has
designed dialects for countless college theatre productions, as well as for
professional theatres including Stageworks/Hudson, WAM, America-in-Play,
and others.  Memberships:  AEA, VASTA.

Emily Mann is a multi-award-winning theatre director and playwright. In her
30 years as Artistic Director and Resident Playwright at McCarter Theatre
Center in Princeton, New Jersey, she wrote 15 new plays and adaptations,
directed more than 50 productions, produced 180 plays and musicals,
supported and directed the work of emerging and legendary playwrights, and
received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Her plays
include: Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A.
Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth; Execution of Justice; Still Life;
Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; Mrs. Packard;
and Hoodwinked (a Primer on Radical Islamism). Her play, Gloria: A Life
about the legacy of Gloria Steinem, ran Off- Broadway and aired on PBS’
Great Performances. On Broadway, she has directed her plays Execution of
Justice and Having Our Say as well as Nilo Cruz’ Anna in the Tropics and
Tennesse Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Among her many awards, Ms.
Mann has received six Obies, a Guggenheim; a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer
Critics Circle and was recently inducted into the American Theater Theater
Hall of Fame.

Jade King Carroll In New York, Off-Broadway credits include Primary Stages: New
Golden Age; Audible/New York Theatre Workshop: Proof of Love; Lincoln
Center Institute: Autumn’s Harvest; The Playwright’s Realm: Hello, From the
Children of Planet Earth; SummerStage: The Etymology of Bird; and Atlantic
Theater Company: Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money. In regional theaters across the
country her work has been seen at Portland Stage, Hartford Stage, McCarter
Theatre Center, City Theatre Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Marin
Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory, Chautauqua
Theater Company, among others. Awards include the Paul Green Award from the
National Theatre Conference and The Estate of August Wilson, TCG New
Generations Future Leader, Van Lier, SUNY 40 under 40, Gates Millennium
Scholar. Jade has just been named Producing Artistic Director of Chautauqua
Theater Company.

About Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company (PCTC)

Playhouse Creatures is a NYC-based, mission-driven, off-Broadway theatre
company dedicated to strengthening the legacy of the American theatre,
while serving the communities where they produce (both on and off stage).
Since 2009, PCTC has produced 15 mainstage productions, seven new works
series, 29 staged readings, four Tennessee Williams festivals, a world
premiere of a Tennessee Williams play (The Recluse and His Guest), and
several NYC premieres. PCTC has won and been nominated for 21 theatre
awards, and received The Nazareth Housing 2018 Community Service Award.

2022 SPONSORS

The 2022 season at the Ancram Opera House is made possible by the New York
State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor
and the New York State Legislature.

AOH's storytelling initiative at Taconic Hills CSD has been made possible
through a grant from the Fund for Columbia County of the Berkshire Taconic
Community Foundation.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Ancram Center is located on unceded,  ancestral lands of the
Muh-he-con-ne-ok,  the Peoples of the Waters That Are Never  Still, and
overlooks the Roeliff Jansen Kill,  which was once called the Sonkippog
(cooling water). We pay tribute to and honor the  history of those who
precede us here.

ABOUT THE ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE
Located in southern Columbia County, the Ancram Opera House presents a mix
of contemporary theatre, alternative cabaret, and community programs.
Located in a converted former grange hall, AOH offers audiences a unique
opportunity to directly engage, up close, with visionary theatre artists at
the top of their field who are rarely seen in our region. For more
information visit www.ancramoperahouse.org.
Gail M. Burns (she/her)
Press Representative, Ancram Opera House
pr at ancramoperahouse.org
Gail's phone: 413-458-4246
AOH phone: 518-329-0114
https://www.ancramoperahouse.org
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