Past Events
Since 2021 SHAC has been creating art opportunities, across disciplines, for community members of all ages.
Hidden Gems: Play Reading Series
WAKE
by Bryn Manion
February 2026
Whether it was written in the time of Caesar or written last week at a Little Caesars, Hidden Gems: Play Reading Series is a play reading series dedicated to revisiting rarely produced plays as well as giving voice to new works for the first time.
Originally produced in New York City in 2010, WAKE follows three generations of the Sullivan family, weaving the three timelines of their stories together. The play explores how love, grief and family are all deeply entwined.
Featuring: Katherine Nolan Brown, Todd Brown, Jessica Carmen Courtney, Stephanie Granade, Dee Hanbury, Eric Miller, Chris Moyer, Claire Moyer, Giverny Petitmermet, Ben Posner, Michael Rehse and Lin Snider.
The Love SHAC
February 2025
The SHAC House All-stars were joined by special guests, local band State Liquor Authority, and members of the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective Community Chorus for a heart pounding evening of live music .
Sleepy Hollow Community Band & Chorus: Holiday Concert
Decmber 2024
The Sleepy Hollow Community Band & Chorus, featuring students, faculty, parents, alumni and community members, under the direction of Music Director, Abby Ferri and Chorus Director, Madeline Franklin, rang in the season with a wide range of holiday favorites.
Hidden Gems: Play Reading Series
Radiant Vermin
by Philip Ridley
November 2025
Whether it was written in the time of Caesar or written last week at a Little Caesars, Hidden Gems: Play Reading Series is a play reading series dedicated to revisiting rarely produced plays as well as giving voice to new works for the first time.
When a young couple is offered an ideal house by a mysterious stranger, it prompts the question: How far would any of us go to get our dream home? A fast-paced, pitch-black comedy, Radiant Vermin is a provocative satire about the housing market, homelessness, and inequality.
Featuring Emily Dziak, Jasper Newell, Dee Hanbury, & Giverny Petitmermet
Songs From the Crypt
October 2025
Local bands antinoun, The Altogether and some very special guests joined the SHAC House All-stars for an evening of live music by many of our greatest unliving legends.
Hidden Gems: Play Reading Series
The War of the Worlds
by Howard E. Koch
October 2025
Whether it was written in the time of Caesar or written last week at a Little Caesars, Hidden Gems: Play Reading Series is a play reading series dedicated to revisiting rarely produced plays as well as giving voice to new works for the first time.
The War of the Worlds is a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth that was staged by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air series and premiered on CBS Radio on October 30, 1938. Based on the novel by H.G. Wells and adapted for the radio by Howard Koch, the show was presented as a series of authentic newscasts breaking into regularly scheduled programming to alert the people of Earth of the dire circumstances. This led to national mass hysteria among listeners who believed it to be real.
SHAC Fall Season Kickoff & Hootenanny
September 2025
An afternoon of mixing, mingling, art and music making.
Sleepy Hollow Community Band & Chorus: Spring Concert
June 2024
The Sleepy Hollow Community Band & Chorus, featuring students, faculty, parents, alumni and community members, under the direction of Music Director, Abby Ferri and Chorus Director, Madeline Franklin, presented music from movies we all know and love.
The Hill: Stories from Spoon River
June 2025
The Hill: Stories from Spoon River was remounted at the historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery as a co-production with Lovely Calamity Productions in June, 2025. The script was adapted from poet Edgar Lee Masters' 1915 classic, Spoon River Anthology, by Crissy Noelle. The show follows the residents of the fictional town of Spoon River, who have returned from the dead to perform their epitaphs. Audience members joined the enigmatic master-of-ceremonies known as Fiddler Jones on a lantern lit journey through the necropolis, wandering from grave to grave, and learning the secrets these forlorn ghosts almost took to their graves.
Game On!
January 2025
Game On! is a high energy, low stakes evening of theater games, camp games, and kids games
for adults. Dedicated to tapping into that child-like sense of joy and spontaneity too often lost to
adulthood, the workshop runs the gamut from exhilarating games to get the blood flowing; to
games of concentration, enhancing focus and problem-solving; to ridiculous games played with
reckless abandon. Above all else, this workshop is about fun!
Sleepy Hollow Community Band:
Winter Concert
December 2024
Under the direction of Music Director, Abby Ferri and featuring students, faculty, parents, alumni and community members, the Sleepy Hollow Community Band, welcomed winter with a concert full of seasonal favorites.
SHAC Shake & Art SHAC
Fall 2024 - Fall 2025
Ongoing, weekly drop-in, pay-what-you can, early childhood music and movement class & art class.
SHAC at TaSH Art Workshops
Fall 2024
Market goers were invited to tap into their inner visual artist that’s bursting to get out, every Saturday in September and October at TaSH Farmers Market!
Photo courtesy of Jim Logan | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
The Hill: Stories from Spoon River
June 2024
The Hill: Stories from Spoon River had its debut production at the historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in June, 2024. The script was adapted from poet Edgar Lee Masters' 1915 classic, Spoon River Anthology, by Crissy Noelle. The show follows the residents of the fictional town of Spoon River, who have returned from the dead to perform their epitaphs. Audience members joined the enigmatic master-of-ceremonies known as Fiddler Jones on a lantern lit journey through the necropolis, wandering from grave to grave, and learning the secrets these forlorn ghosts almost took to their graves.
Orginal Sea Shanties
July 2024
Original Sea Shanties
written by the kids of the Tarrytown Arts Camp
Performed at the Sleepy Hollow Mermaid Festival
The Love SHAC
Feburary 2024
An evening of drag, song, stories and laughs.
MOUSELAND
November 2023
SHAC THEATER WORKSHOP presents MOUSELAND in conjunction with Jill Liflander’s “Mice for Peace” exhibition at the Ossining Public Library
MOUSELAND
July 2023
The SHAC THEATER WORKSHOP inaugural production of MOUSELAND an immersive theater piece written by students of the Tarrytown Arts Camp, inspired by Sleepy Hollow resident Jill Liflander’s “Mice for Peace” artwork and Sleepy Hollow resident Paul Griffin’s “Mouse Music.” Presented at the Hudson Valley Writers Center in partnership with the Tarrytown Arts Camp
Photo by Liflander Photography | liflanderphotography.com
Map-Making Workshop
July 2023
SHAC MAP-MAKING WORKSHOP at the SLEEPY HOLLOW BOOKSHOP
SHAC Juvie Jam
June 2023
The SHAC JUVIE JAM at the Hudson Valley Writers Center
SHAC Earth Day Jamboretum
April 2023
An Earth Day Celebration at the Sleepy Hollow Bookshop
The SHAC Musical Playdate
March 2023 - January 2026
An ongoing early childhood musical playdate drop-in at the Sleepy Hollow Bookshop.
SHAC Gametime for Grownups
January 2023
An evening of kids games for grownups at the Hudson Valley Writers Center
SHAC at TaSH Halloween Hootenany
October 2022
Featuring original Halloween Songs written by students of Washington Irving School
SHAC Intergenerational Jazz Band
September 2022
SHAC INTERGENERATIONAL JAZZ BAND – “On Point”
Serves as the house band for the Hudson Valley Writers Center Fundraiser Gala
SHAC at TaSH Latin Drumming Workshop
September 2022
The SHAC at TaSH
Latin Drumming Workshop
SHAC Spooky School
September - November 2022 &
September 2023
A creative writing and songwriting workshop Theater Residency at Washington Irving School
SHAC at TaSH Spring Theater & Music Celebration
June 2022
The SHAC at TaSH
Schools of the Tarrytowns Spring Theater and Music Celebration
SHAC at TaSH Holiday Market Concert
December 2022
The SHAC at TaSH Holiday Market Concert
SHAC Intergenerational Music Performance
October 2021
SHAC intergenerational music performance at the Sleepy Hollow Cultural Festival
Featuring original songs written by students of Sleepy Hollow’s Life Center and the Sleepy Hollow Recreation Department After-School Program
SHAC Creative Writing Workshops
September 2021
SHAC CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS
At Sleepy Hollow’s Life Center and the
Sleepy Hollow Recreation Department’s After-School Program
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