[Capdist-announce] Popular Reading Series Featuring Hudson Valley/Berkshire Writers is Back for 5th Season

[Lauren Letellier]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

*Contact: *Lauren Letellier

pr at ancramoperahouse.org

917-747-5250



*Ancram Opera House Presents Powerful Literary Voices at *

*Roe Jan Park’s Hilltop Barn July 15*



Crystal Radio Sessions, the popular series where professional actors read
aloud the work of contemporary writers, returns to the Hilltop Barn at Roe
Jan Park at 7:30pm on Sunday, July 15. Presented for the 5th year by Ancram
Opera House, Crystal Radio Sessions is modeled after Symphony Space’s
“Selected Shorts” and features fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and
personal essays by established and emerging writers from the Hudson Valley
and Berkshires.



This year’s short stories are “The Yellow'' by Samantha Hunt, read by Sandy
York, and “Sugar Bath” by Harris Lahti, read by Joey Taylor. Tickets are
$25 general admission ($15 with student ID), and are available at
www.ancramoperahouse.org.



In “The Yellow*,” *loneliness, a car accident and a resurrected dog bring
together two strangers in the suburbs. In “Sugar Bath,” a house flipper and
his pregnant wife discover gravestones in the basement of their new house.



The series is curated by Ashley Mayne, whose work has been published in Fence,
Post Road, Juked, Northwest Review, Peripheries, Blight Podcast,
Metambesen, and elsewhere. She is the author of novels *Mankiller* (2014
Dr. Cicero Books), and *Tiger* (2015), and edits fiction for Fence.



*About the Authors *



*Samantha Hunt* is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard
Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Prize, and the St.
Francis College Literary Prize. She has been a finalist for the Orange
Prize and the PEN/Faulkner. Hunt has published five books, teaches at Pratt
Institute and lives in Tivoli, NY.



*Harris Lahti’s *fiction has appeared in *Southwest Review, Bomb, Archway
Editions Journal, Ninth Letter, Blue Arrangements,* and elsewhere. He edits
for *Fence*. His debut short story collection, *Mental Health Professiona*l,
is forthcoming from the new Cash for Gold Books in the spring of 2024.



*About the Performers*



*Sandy York* is an actor-singer based in New York City who has studied
classical, contemporary, and musical theater at Princeton University (AB),
Trinity Repertory Conservatory (MFA) and the New York Shakespeare Festival
Lab. She works in theater, film, TV, industrials and commercials around the
country and internationally.



*Joey Taylor* is an actor, director and co-founder of Definitely Human
Theatre, which produces contemporary theater in the Hudson Valley. In
December 2022 Definitely Human Theatre presented *The Ukraine Plays*, short
works by Ukrainian playwrights, at Ancram Opera House to raise money for
Ukrainian theater artists. Recent acting/directing credits: My Love Letter
to Godzilla. Howie the Rookie, Speech & Debate.



This performance of Crystal Radio Sessions is sponsored by Oblong Books, an
independent bookstore with locations in Millerton and Rhinebeck.



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
   - Sunday, July 15th at 7:30pm
   - The Hilltop Barn at Roeliff Jansen Park, 116 Rte 22, Hillsdale, NY
   12529
   - $25 general admission ($15 with student ID
   - Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=175705
   - https://www.ancramoperahouse.org/crystal-radio-sessions-2023




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Lauren Letellier
Press Representative, Ancram Opera House
pr at ancramoperahouse.org
Lauren's phone: 917-747-5250
AOH phone: 518-329-0114
https://www.ancramoperahouse.org
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