Saturday, September 23rd at 7:00pm
LIVE at Ancram Opera House
1330 County Route 7, Ancram, 12502
Crystal Radio Sessions, curated by Ashley Mayne, showcases fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and personal essays by established and emerging writers from the Hudson Valley. Crystal Radio believes in the power of the spoken word and is devoted to transmitting compelling literary expression through the ether. This fall’s reading will feature “Angela Lives“ by J. Arthur Boyle, and “The Tintype of Billy the Kid” by Pamela Ryder.
Content Warning: ”Angela Lives” contains content of sexual nature. “The Tintype of Billy the Kid” contains themes and depictions of death, childbirth complications, and mortality which may be upsetting to some viewers)
Join us for a ceLEBRATORY TOAST by the fire pit after the performance!
After the performance, we extend a warm invitation to join us on AOH's lawn for a fireside celebration that marks the official beginning of our fall season. Sip on local wine and cider, and connect with fellow theatre enthusiasts under the stars. Don't miss our first gathering of the season! Reserve your spot now.
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Featured Authors
J. Arthur Boyle
J. Arthur Boyle is no longer a carpenter. His 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. He teaches writing at CUNY, and is currently at work on an artist's book as an artist-in-residency at the Wassaic Project. More of his work can be found at jarthurboyle.com.
About J. Arthur Boyle’s story, “Angela Lives”
A woman's apartment takes on a life of its own.
Pamela Ryder
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. Pam wishes to thank Ashley Mayne, fiction editor at Fence, for her invaluable assistance in editing the story. pamelaryder.com
About Pamela’s story,
“The Tintype of Billy the Kid”
An itinerant tin typist makes his living taking portraits of the dead.
Featured Actors
LEIGH STRIMBECK
Recent acting credits include: Eleanor in Lion in Winter; Alice in Lewiston at Bridge Street Theatre; Leonata in Much Ado About Nothing, Saratoga Shakespeare; Virginia Butley in Native Gardens at Gloucester Stage Company; Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit and Kate Keller in All My Sons Voice Theatre of Woodstock; Tippy in Breakwater at Great Barrington Public Theater. More regional theater: The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble; WAM; The Rep; Shakespeare and Co (Understudy for Tina Packer, Mother of the Maid). Feature 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.
Head of the Acting Program for NY State Defenders Association Basic Trial Skills program and the author of the one-woman play The Queen of Fenway Court: Isabella Stewart Gardner as well as several other plays.
Come see Leigh as as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill October 5-15.
FRANK BOYD
Frank 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 (Ancram Opera House, Guthrie Theater). Film/TV: FBI, Blue Bloods, Z Nation, Thin Skin. Frank is a new dad and he is also the owner/operator of a vintage clothing store, Clubhouse Vintage, in Rosendale, NY.