CRYSTAL RADIO SESSIONS
Saturday, July 13th at 7:30pm
LIVE at Ancram Center for the Arts
1330 County Route 7, Ancram, 12502
Crystal Radio Sessions, curated by Hudson Valley author Ashley Mayne, features actors reading fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and personal essays by established and emerging writers.
This year features four vivid and startling stories from authors Jo Ann Beard, Jackelyn Hoy, and Kyra Simone, read by performers Thomas Rothacker and Erin Lindsey Krom.
From a Paris apartment fire, to a childhood afternoon, to a woman's goodbye to her best friend, to a mysterious babysitter, Ancram Center actors will draw you into four different worlds in this evening of wild fiction. Stories include Maybe It Happened and The Longest Night by Jo Ann Beard, Breaking by Jackelyn Hoy, and The Smallest of Hearths by Kyra Simone.
Crystal Radio Sessions is generously supported by Oblong Books.
Featured Authors
Jo Ann Beard is the author of two essay collections, Festival Days and The Boys of My Youth, and a novel, In Zanesville. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York.
Jackelyn Hoy was born and raised in Chicago. She holds a B.A. from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A. from New York University; her work can be found in Fence and New Letters. She currently resides in Vermont.
Kyra Simone is a writer from Los Angeles. She is the author of the story collection Palace of Rubble, and her fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals, including American Chordata, The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Conjunctions, LEAN Magazine, and The Anthology of Best American Experimental Writing, among other places. Winner of the 2022 ILS/Fence Magazine Fiction Contest, Simone is a recipient of fellowships at the Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi, Georgia and Nairobi, Kenya, and has been a recent finalist for the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, as well as the American Short(er) Fiction Prize. She lives in Brooklyn, where she works at Zone Books and is a long time member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse. More of her work can be found at www.kyra-simone.com.
Featured Performers
Thomas Rothacker is an Actor, Director, Dramaturg and Playwright and has worked in a variety of capacities Off and Off-Off Broadway. He has acted, directed and produced at theatres such as New Ohio Theatre, The Tank, Theatre for the New City, Theatre Row, The Kraine, American Theatre of Actors, Looking Glass and Wombat Theatre Co. Tom is also an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at CUNY Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY. He teaches courses such as Theatre History, Play Analysis, Fundamentals of Acting and Acting II. Research and pedagogical interests included movement-based and generated training for the beginning actor, many aspects of theatre history, and the Dramaturg as a voice in the rehearsal room.
Erin Lindsey Krom is a New York based actor who has performed regionally with Cape Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Tuacahn Amphitheater, the Pittsburgh Public, PCLO, PICT, Kinetic Theatre Company & Playhouse on Park, among others. Proud AEA member. Various tv, film & commercial credits. For more info, visit www.erinkrom.com or follow on Instagram: @erinlindseykrom
About Ashley Mayne
Ashley Mayne's work has appeared 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) edits fiction for Fence, curates two reading series in the Hudson Valley, and works on an organic farm.