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Lewis Kempfer is an award-winning author and performing arts jack of all trades from Denver. He co-founded the Boiler Room Theatre in 2000 in the Nashville area where his vast body of design and production work in 2006 landed him a dream job with the Walt Disney Company in Los Angeles. Kempfer tells the story of the Boiler Room Theatre in his 2022 release, "120 Seats in a Boiler Room: The Creation of a Courageous Professional Theater." His 2019 literary debut of "Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir" earned seven awards, including First Place for LGBTQ Biographies in the 2022 BookFest Awards; the 2021 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Award for LGBTQ; and the 2021 Indie Reader Discovery Category Award for LGBTQ Non-Fiction. While at the Boiler Room, he wrote book and lyrics for two original musicals that played to packed houses, "That ’60s Christmas Show" and "Billy Bob’s Holiday Hoedown." He also won a Telly Award for his short film "From Concept to Completion."
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Reviewed by Sefina Hawke for Readers' Favorite
Lewis Kempfer’s 120 Seats in a Boiler Room: The Creation of a Courageous Professional Theater is a non-fiction drama that would appeal most to a diverse audience of adults and young adults with an interest in learning about how the Boiler Room Theatre in Franklin, Tennessee, came to exist. Four friends set out to find a location for their theater company and discovered it in a rundown boiler room that they transformed into the “scrappy little theater that could”. Are you ready not only to learn about the Boiler Room Theatre but also the ins and outs of theater management?
Lewis Kempfer’s 120 Seats in a Boiler Room is a well-written account that offers the perfect blend of guide and memoir in one book. I quite enjoyed how the author shared the transformational journey of the theater as well as all sorts of tips on theater management. I found the success of the little theater to be both inspiring and motivating as it showed how hard work can really pay off. I had no idea about everything that was involved in creating and managing a theater. I found the parts on understudies, media relations, and staffing to be the most interesting. I had no idea how vital understudies could be to a theater as I thought they were just wannabe actors. I truly enjoyed this behind-the-scenes tour that the author took me on and after finishing the book, I feel as if the guidance offered could be applied to many small start-ups regardless of their industry.
