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Kelsey Layton: From Opening for Loretta Lynn to Landing Her Dream Role
Award-winning actor and director Kelsey Layton has been performing since she was three years old, singing lead in her family's multi-generational show band, The Heltons, in South Alabama. In this episode, she and Ben trace the whole arc: opening for Loretta Lynn as a kid, the reality TV show that almost happened, training at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, and finding a home at the Bastrop Opera House.
Now she's one of the hardest-working people in Central Texas theatre, directing and starring on stage in the same season. Her directing credits…
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