K.L.Storer's Artist's Page

Latest Blog Post, Feb 19:
- Sound Designer ‐ FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN at The Dayton Theatre Guild: Flight of the sound guy
- DTG Directing ‐ CAMPAIGNS, INC: Pre-production, never too early....
- The Writer ‐ Story Bible: That danged Rabbit hole!

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #02192024

My website:

https://www.klstorer.com/

One of my loftiest artistic goals to be brilliant, not to simply be known as brilliant, but to actually deserve the term laid upon me. I think maybe ‐‐ MAYBE ‐‐ I've achieved such perhaps a little bit, a few times, maybe. But even if I'm being delusional, which isn't far-fetched, even if some, or much, of what I have done and still do is horrible, I take solace in the words of my favorite novelist, Kurt Vonngut, who is obviously speaking to a classroom of kids:

A couple different points:
1) offenders may possibly hurt their chances with the particular director in future auditions
2) directors talk to each other and share this kind of frustration and may just specifically identify the offender, which the other director(s) may take note of.
3) when a person HAS been honest and not checked the box, a director has no right nor business getting upset when the actor turns down another role -- I've witnessed this happen, too.
3b) I've known directors who still wanted to use the actor and DID go ahead and offer them another role, and I've seen them persuade the actor to take the role. But the good directors accept the "no," when it comes.

Please Be Honest When Saying You'll Accept "Any Role" — OnStage Blog “Folks, most of us in community/school theatre know this, but please be honest when letting a director know that you’ll accept any role. It can be a huge help in casting a show and throw an enormous kink into it if someone is lying about that.”

Latest Blog Post, Feb 6:
- Sound Designer ‐ FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN at The Dayton Theatre Guild: Sound, plus

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #02062024

K.L.'s Artistic Blog, Jan-Mar, 2024 at klstorer.com K.L.'s Atristic Blog, Jan-Mar, 2024, at the official web site of K.L.Storer focusing on his endeavors in theatre arts, music, writing, and other artistic endeavors.

Latest Blog Post, Feb 5:
- U.D. Law ‐ Professional Acting Gig: Though I was a dactylogram expert, I wasn't a cop ‐‐ and other adventures
- Tickets on sale for FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN at The Dayton Theatre Guild

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #02052024

Latest Blog Post, Feb 3:
- U.D. Law ‐ Professional Acting Gig: I'm not really a dactylogram* expert, I just play one for law students
- Tax Time: Will I get my taxes filed early this year?
- Tickets on sale for FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN at The Dayton Theatre Guild

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #02032024

Latest Blog Post, Jan 31:
- U.D. Law ‐ Professional Acting Gig: The Actor Prepares ‐ Them flashcards be done
- Tickets on sale for FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN at The Dayton Theatre Guild

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #01312024

Latest Blog Post, Jan 30:
- U.D. Law ‐ Professional Acting Gig: The Actor Prepares ‐ More witness work
- FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN at The Dayton Theatre Guild: The penultimate 23/24 DTG show is in rehearsal
- DTG Directing ‐ The Director Prepares: One smallish step forward
- TRUE WEST at The Dayton Theatre Guild: Post-mortem lite

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #01302024

Announcing the Cast Of FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN

We are pleased to announce the cast of FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN
by Peter Ullian & Robert Lindsey-Nassif

Aaron Hill as Jerry Gorman
Jeannine Parson as Gracie
Drew Roby as Big Jack Preston
Emma Alexander as Blaire
Rhea Smith as Mother Gorman
Isaac Bement as Mr. Frankel
Julia DiPaolo as French Boy/Amelia Earhart
Michael Plaugher as NASA Official/Leonardo DaVinci
Jamie McQuinn as TV Reporter/Charles Lindbergh
Jamie Pavlofsky as FAA Agent

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

Jerry Gorman is a regular guy from Passaic, New Jersey, who just got promoted to Snack Bar Manager at Wal-Mart. But what he really wants to do is fly. While the neighbors think he's nuts, and his mother disapproves, his girlfriend Gracie believes in him and encourages him to follow his dream. Jerry soars to 16,000 feet with nothing but a lawnchair and 400 helium balloons. Loosely based on a true story, FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN is a musical that inspires hope, and reminds us that dreams can come true if you believe in yourself.

Directed by Kim Warrick
Music Direction by Sarah Lingg
Produced by Christina Tomazinis & Heather Atkinson

The show runs weekends March 22-April 7, 2024
First Weekend: Friday 8pm, Saturday 8pm, Sunday 3pm
Second & Third Weekend: Friday 8pm, Saturday 5pm, Sunday 3pm

Individual tickets on sale now
Adult: $20
Senior (60 or older): $18
Student: $13

To purchase:
- https://daytontheatreguild.thundertix.com/
- or call 937-278-5993
- or at the box office day of the show

*All individual tickets purchased in advance via our on-line ticket system or by telephone will also include a $1 convenience fee.
**Special pricing for groups of 10 or more, call the Box Office at 937-278-5993 for pricing

Children under 7 will not be admitted

For more information, including future auditions, see http://www.daytontheatreguild.org

Latest Blog Post, Jan 26:
- U.D. Law ‐ Professional Acting Gig: The Actor Prepares ‐ Witness work
- & The Actor Prepares: Another acting gig?
- DTG Directing: And more prep wearing a different hat
- My Music: Somewhere on the horizon
- In The Audience: Jerry Seinfeld at the Schuster ‐ I'll go, if I don't have to talk(*)
- Tickets on sale for TRUE WEST at The Dayton Theatre Guild

*(so how many of you get the reference?)

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #01262024

Latest Blog Post, Jan 22:
- Playwright Work: The question of the playscript overhaul
- DTG Producing ‐ TRUE WEST: Another great weekend
- DTG Directing: DTG'S 24/25 directors

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #01222024

I get to pretend like I'm in charge again.........

Dayton Theatre Guild Is Excited to Announce the Directors for Our 2024/2025 Season:

1) THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
Directed by Ray Gambrel
Showing Aug 23 - Sep 8, 2024
(Auditions: Jul 8 & 9, 2024)

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*** Season Extra ***
CAMPAIGNS, INC., a new play by native Daytonian Will Allan
Directed by K.L.Storer
Showing Oct 11 - 20, 2024
(Auditions:Aug 26 & 27, 2024)

*CAMPAIGNS, INC. is a season extra and not in the subscription package.

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2) THE WOMAN IN BLACK Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt, by Susan Hill
Directed by David Shough
Showing Nov 29 - Dec 15, 2024
(Auditions Oct 14 & 15, 2024)

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3) THE MINUTES by Tracy Letts
Directed by Melissa Ertsgaard
Showing Jan 31 - Feb 16, 2025
(Auditions Dec 2 & 3, 2024)

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4) CHANCERS by Robert Massey
Directed by Marjorie Strader
Showing Mar 28 - Apr 13, 2025
(Auditions Feb 3 & 4, 2025)

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5) BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Robert-Wayne Waldron
Showing May 23 - Jun 8, 2025
(Auditions Mar 31 & Apr 1, 2025)

*Note that all audition dates may be subject to change

Latest Blog Post, Jan 17:
- U.D. Law ‐ Professional Acting Gig: Info packet for my upcoming gig
- DTG Producing ‐ TRUE WEST: The radio; & that danged gremlin

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #01172024

WDPR's Larry Coressel talks with TRUE WEST director, Doug Lloyd about the DTG production

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Latest Blog Post, Jan 15:
- MLK, Jr.
- My Music ‐ On-Liner Notes: "Into the Blue Dawn"
- DTG Producing ‐ TRUE WEST: One weekend down
- FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN at The Dayton Theatre Guild: Auditions tonight & tomorrow night

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #01152024

Latest Blog Post, Jan 12:
- Professional Acting Gig: A little acting with a paycheck, for U.D. Law
- Opening Today at The Dayton Theatre Guild: TRUE WEST
- FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN at The Dayton Theatre Guild: Auditions this coming Monday & Tuesday

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #01122024

DTG True West trailer DTG DV movie promotional trailer in support of the Dayton Theatre Guild production of TRUE WEST, by Sam Shepard, showing Jan. 12-28, 2024. Directed by Doug Lloyd...

The trailer for The Guild show opening this Friday

DTG True West trailer DTG DV movie promotional trailer in support of the Dayton Theatre Guild production of TRUE WEST, by Sam Shepard, showing Jan. 12-28, 2024. Directed by Doug Lloyd...

Latest Blog Post, Jan 7:
- DTG Producing ‐ TRUE WEST: And Tech Week officially begins today

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #01072024

One week away

Latest Blog Post, Jan 4:
- Reading Scripts: Direct? Act? Design? Pontificate?
- DTG Producing ‐ TRUE WEST: Sound, and ‐‐ Going once more for the Hail Mary! ‐ Our production is STILL looking to fill out the run crew
- On TV: ELVES ‐ an interesting show from Denmark
- FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN at The Dayton Theatre Guild: Audition sides available

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #01042024

the Guild is still looking for submissions for 24/25 directors. Pass it on.........

DAYTON THEATRE GUILD SEEKS DIRECTORS FOR OUR 2024/2025 SEASON:

We are seeking directors for each show of our 2024/2025. If you’re interested in directing one of these shows, please contact Rick Flynn at [email protected] for more information.

Friday, January 12 is the last day to submit interest for directing.

Here are the six show:

1) THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
Showing Aug 23 - Sep 8, 2024
(Auditions: Jul 8 & 9, 2024)
5M, 4W (plus) w/intermission

THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE is a charming and romantic fable, written in 1921. It ran on Broadway for 65 performances in 1923 and was made into a film in 1945. It was, in fact, produced here at the Guild in the 1953/1954 season. Socialite Oliver Bradshaw returns home from WWI disfigured by war wounds and convinced that no one will accept him as he is now. He hides from his family and the rest of the world, taking a secluded cottage overseen by a mysterious housekeeper. Laura Pennington, a painfully shy young woman from the village comes to look after Oliver. She tells him that the cottage in which he is staying is in fact a very old honeymoon cottage. The two begin developing feelings for each other and ultimately fall in love and marry. They discover the enchantment of the cottage has the power to transform. This play is about true beauty lying within, and about acceptance. Everyone deserves to love.

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*** Season Extra ***
CAMPAIGNS, INC., a new play by native Daytonian Will Allan
Showing Oct 11 - 20, 2024
(Auditions:Aug 26 & 27, 2024)
6M, 2W (plus) No Intermission

A comedic docudrama based on the actual first American political consulting firm, formed by Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker, CAMPAIGNS INC. is a behind-the-scenes look at orchestrated political dirty tricks executed through what may be the original "fake news" strategy. With dark humor, the play examines Baxter and Whitaker's propaganda machine that sabotages novelist Upton Sinclair's 1934 bid to become the first Democratic governor of California.

*CAMPAIGNS, INC. is a season extra and not in the subscription package.

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2) THE WOMAN IN BLACK Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt, by Susan Hill
Showing Nov 29 - Dec 15, 2024
(Auditions Oct 14 & 15, 2024)
2M, 1W - w/Intermission

THE WOMAN IN BLACK is a 1987 stage play, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt. The play is based on the 1983 book of the same name by English author Susan Hill. Arthur Kipps, an attorney, is sent to handle the estate of the deceased Mrs. Drablow. He makes the trip to her funeral in a bleak and lonely part of England, where all of his enquiries into the details of her estate and her family are met with silence. At the funeral, Kipps alone observes a strange young, ghastly-looking woman dressed in black. The next morning, Kipps is taken to Mrs. Drablow’s eerie Eel Marsh house. The house is reached by way of a narrow causeway that is passable only during low tide. As Kipps investigates the house and the surrounding property, he again sees the woman in black, but is unable to follow her. His apprehension and fear grow. As he cautiously explores the inside of the house, he uncovers a large number of documents and information he must sift through in order to settle Mrs. Drablow’s affairs. His efforts reveal secrets and unexplainable events. Who is this woman in black? Why are the townspeople so hesitant to answer his questions? What happens to haunt Kipps years later? As Kipps and an actor he hires to help tell his story, struggle to tell it all and exorcise both their demons, we learn the chilling answer to these questions -- and more.

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3) THE MINUTES by Tracy Letts
Showing Jan 31 - Feb 16, 2025
(Auditions Dec 2 & 3, 2024)
7M, 3W – No intermission

THE MINUTES is a dark comedy. It had its premiere at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago in 2017, and moved to the James Earl Jones Theatre in New York City in 2020. This play takes a hard look at the inner workings of a city council meeting and the hypocrisy, greed and ambition that bubble to the surface when a newcomer to the small town of Big Cherry starts to ask the wrong questions. Why is someone on the council mysteriously missing? What happened to all those bicycles? Is there something going on with the city’s finances? What’s the deal with the available parking space? And why are the minutes from the last meeting being kept secret? Sometimes the “history” we’ve been taught isn’t the true “history” at all! Part PARKS & RECREATION, part TWILIGHT ZONE, this powerful, resonant, and funny portrayal of democracy in action proves that everything you know can change -- it’s just a matter of minutes. After all, the smallest towns keep the biggest secrets.

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4) CHANCERS by Robert Massey
Showing Mar 28 - Apr 13, 2025
(Auditions Feb 3 & 4, 2025)
2M, 2W - No intermission

CHANCERS is a fast and furious comedy, set in Ireland, about the lengths we will go to when our backs are against the wall. Aiden and Dee are on the verge of losing it all. They've had to rent out their home to a fellow from Dublin (who was previously Dee’s boyfriend), and move with their two young sons into the back of their nearly bankrupt convenience store. And now Dee is out at a job interview (which doesn’t go well). Aiden never thought their situation would come to this. But salvation may have arrived in the form of local battleaxe, Gertie Graham. She literally has their ticket out of the poorhouse -- they just need to get their hands on it without her knowing. CHANCERS premiered to great acclaim at the Viking Theatre, Dublin, in 2013, before touring the following year.

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5) BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Showing May 23 - Jun 8, 2025
(Auditions Mar 31 & Apr 1, 2025)
4M, 3W – w/Intermission

This play won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2015 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and the 2015 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Play. It closed on Broadway in Feb 2023. Walter “Pops” Washington is a retired NYC policeman, and he has had enough. He has been pursuing a discrimination suit against the Police Department, because he, a black police officer, was accidentally shot by another (white) police officer. Meanwhile, his landlord won’t leave him alone, his wife recently passed away, and the liquor store can’t keep up with his thirst. Pops’ last living relative, his son Junior, has recently gotten out of jail and moved back to Pops’ house with his girlfriend, Lulu, and his newly sober buddy, Oswaldo. With his heels dug into the floor of his rent-controlled Riverside Drive apartment, Pops holds onto old wounds, both physical and emotional. Pressure reaches a boiling point when an ultimatum comes from an unlikely source, pinning Pops squarely “between Riverside and crazy.” This Tony Award-nominated Pulitzer Prize-winning play, is passionate, contemporary, and bracingly funny.

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If you’re interested in directing one of these shows, please contact Rick Flynn at [email protected] for more information.

Friday, January 12 is the last day to submit interest for directing.

Latest Blog Post, New Year's Day, 2024:
- 2024
- DTG Producing ‐ TRUE WEST: Going for the Hail Mary! ‐ Our production is STILL looking to fill out the run crew
- DTG Directing ‐ WEDNESDAY'S CHILD: A post-mortem essay (Warning! It Ain't Short!)

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog82.html #01012024

Latest Blog Post, Dec 31:
- Season's Greetings (One More Time!)
- Artist's Retreat ‐ Staycation 2023: Wrapping it up, sort of
- DTG Producing ‐ TRUE WEST: Our production is STILL looking to fill out the run crew

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog81.html #12312023

Processing audio files can get pretty tedious and boring...........

Latest Blog Post, Dec 28:
- Season's Greetings
- Eight Years Ago I Kissed Death
- Artist's Retreat ‐ Staycation 2023: I must keep the TV off
- DTG Producing ‐ TRUE WEST: Our production is still looking to fill out the run crew

https://www.klstorer.com/blog/kls_blog81.html #12282023

Looking to be involved in a theatre production, but NOT on stage.....?

'TRUE WEST' STILL LOOKING FOR RUN CREW

We are still looking for back stage run crew for our upcoming production of Sam Shepard's TRUE WEST.

The crew members will be needed starting with Tech Sunday, on January 7, and possibly earlier. The crew does need to be available the following dates:

TECH REHEARSALS:
Sunday, Jan 7 (time TBA, but probably late morning into early evening)
Mon-Thu, Jan 8-11 evenings

PERFORMANCES:
Jan 12, 8:00 curtain
Jan 13, 8:00 curtain
Jan 14, 3:00 curtain
Jan 19, 8:00 curtain
Jan 20, 5:00 curtain
Jan 21, 3:00 curtain
Jan 26, 8:00 curtain
Jan 27, 5:00 curtain
Jan 28, 3:00 curtain

*Crew call times for rehearsals and performances to be determined, but for performances will likely be one hour prior to curtain times.

If you are interested, contact Producer K.L.Storer via PM here on facebook or email him at [email protected]

If you know someone who would be interested, pease share this information with them.