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Celeste Lecesne serves fairy magic in "Poof!" at Ancram Opera House

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Celeste Lecesne - "Poof!"

Paula Allen

Ancram Opera House in Ancram, New York will conclude its 2022 Summer Play Lab Series with “POOF!” an all-natural solo performance by Celeste Lecesne, directed by Kevin Hourigan, with music by Truth Future Bachman and costumes by Michael Krass. “POOF!” will have showings this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday - July 8-10.

Writer and performer Celeste Lescene wrote the short film “Trevor,” which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, and they are the co-founder of The Trevor Project, the largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention Lifeline for LGBTQ+ youth.

Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.

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