The Wallis Studio Ensemble

BY DARIA SYSKINE, and read by the whole ensemble, Stitches and Seams is a dreamy and terrifying tale about a close knit family and the ways in which our worlds can be so easily unraveled. This is the last installation of our Short Story Series! Thank you all so much for listening! Check in next week to hear more from each author about their awesome story! https://anchor.fm/ensemble-a//SHORT-STORY-SERIES-8-e13g2pu

BURNT FEATHERS, TORN MARIGOLDS written by Daria Syskine and read by Ashley Victoria Robinson, Kelvin Morales, and Tiana Randall-Quant, is available now on the Ensemble Arts Exchange podcast! https://anchor.fm/ensemble-a//SHORT-STORY-SERIES-7-e13bdoj

Daria is a cryptid and hopeful Biology/English double major at Swarthmore College. They’ve been writing since elementary school (please don’t ask to see their early picture books); other hobbies include hiking, martial arts, and LARPing. Their reading list skews heavily towards sci-fi/fantasy favorite authors include Terry Pratchett, Octavia Butler, and Sofia Samatar, among many others.

Sam Ambler's MOON BECAME AS BLOOD is our latest offering in the ENSEMBLE ARTS EXCHANGE podcast feed. Listen to company member Alexander Sheldon read it now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jWrJICdSW8ciZyZDyXcqj

Sam Ambler’s writing has been published in Christopher Street, The James White Review, City Lights Review Number 2, Nixes Mate Review, and Visitant, among others. He won the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s 6th Annual Poetry Contest. He earned a BA in English, specializing in creative writing of poetry, from Stanford University. He delivered singing telegrams and sang with the Temescal Gay Men’s Chorus in Berkeley and the Pacific Chamber Singers in San Francisco. He has worked in nonprofit theater at Berkeley Rep, Geffen Playhouse, Actors’ Equity, and The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Now retired, he lives in California with his husband, visual artist Edward L. Rubin.

Check out our latest SHORT STORY! Alex Kingsley’s Little Acid Girl read by Marlena Becker. This story is available NOW on our podcast page! Listen now, along with the rest of our Short Story Series! https://open.spotify.com/episode/2YsUgDvtEoSL6AT6yTdKvt