LIVE Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presents: The Temple w/live pipe organ
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre® presents an adaptation of one of H.P. Lovecraft's early tales, "The Temple".The story bounds to life with a cast of professional actors, thrilling sound effects, and original music! This live performance will be accompanied by an original improvised score by Dean Lemire, playing the theater's Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ! This is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity to see and hear this Radio Play performed this way.
The Temple: As the Great War drags on, German U-boats prowl the North Atlantic, torpedoing military and civilian vessels alike. When a shipwrecked man is recovered at sea, he tells a strange and disturbing tale of his experience on a German submarine. Has the experience driven him mad, or did his voyage reveal unseen monstrosities at the bottom of the ocean?
Sean is a producer, actor, director and writer with the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society which he runs with his nefarious colleague, Andrew Leman. He was intimately involved in the creation of the motion pictures The Call of Cthulhu and The Whisperer in Darkness, nineteen episodes of Dark Adventure Radio Theatre, and many other Lovecraftian projects. With his work at the HPLHS, he's created many other Lovecraftian entertainments. Sean also produces and directs live theatre in Los Angeles. He plays ice hockey and has four chinchillas.
Andrew Leman is one of the founding members of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and has produced a number of literary, film, theatrical, music, prop and gaming projects there over the decades with his longtime friend and collaborator Sean Branney. He has written and produced more than 20 live-action Lovecraftian role-playing games. He wrote and directed the first HPLHS film, "The Testimony of Randolph Carter", directed "The Call of Cthulhu", and co-wrote and co-produced The Whisperer in Darkness. He co-wrote, produced, and appears in the "Dark Adventure Radio Theatre" series of Lovecraft adaptations. Leman earned his MFA in acting from the University of Illinois, and has been seen on professional stages in Chicago and Los Angeles. He greatly enjoys reading for The H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast and being an occasional guest host. When not pursuing any of these many other occupations, Leman is a graphic and type designer, and his typographical work has been seen in books and on movie screens, Trader Joe’s products, and billboards nationwide.
Kevin is originally from Bolton, England. He’s been acting professionally and teaching in the United States for over 20 years. Some of his recent TV credits include LA to Vegas, The Kominsky Method, Raven's Home and Shameless His work with The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society includes masking as their “Shipping Shoggoth” and lending his voice to 13 Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (DART) productions and counting.
Dean Lemire is a native of Portland, Oregon. He started playing the piano at the age of five. His training in classical piano was with the late Mary Dunlap, Music Department Chair, at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. He later studied theatre pipe organ with the late Don Simmons and Jerry Gregorius.
Dean started performing at Oaks Park Roller Rink in Portland at age 17, where he still still occasionally performs on the 4/18 Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. In addition to Oaks Park Rink, Dean was an organist at Imperial Roller Rink in Portland. He played at Organ Grinder pizza restaurant in Portland and a staff organist at Uncle Milt’s Pipe Organ Pizza in Vancouver, WA for over twenty years. Dean was a featured concert artist at the national convention of the American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS) in 1988 and 2010. For many years, he was the team organist for the Portland Trailblazers at the Memorial Coliseum, as well as team organist for the Portland Beavers baseball team at Civic Stadium/PGE Park. As an accomplished jazz pianist, Dean has traveled extensively as a keyboard artist with various USO military tour groups. He has performed with such names as Bob Hope and Glen Campbell among others… entertaining US troops worldwide on four continents…from military bases and hospitals.…to the carrier deck of the USS Enterprise.
Currently, Dean is resident organist and Program Director at Portland’s historic Hollywood Theatre for the “Pipe Organ Pictures” silent film series - where he regularly performs his original scores live on the Hollywood’s Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. He is an active Lifetime member and Past President of the Columbia River Theatre Organ Society, a non-profit Oregon based organization which promotes and preserves this most uniquely American instrument….the theatre pipe organ.
In 1998 Scott Glancy left a perfectly functional career as an attorney to join up with the role-playing game publisher Pagan Publishing, the nerd equivalent of running away to join the Foreign Legion. Today Scott is the man in charge of Pagan Publishing (much in the same sense that the last surviving legionnaire can be said to be in command of Fort Zinderhoff). Pagan’s most recent project is “Horrors of War,” an anthology of scenarios set during the Great War for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. Scott is a contributing author on the award-winning Delta Green series of Call of Cthulhu rpg supplements and has had Lovecraftian fiction published in several short story collections including the recent "Book of Cthulhu II," "Shotguns v. Cthulhu," and the upcoming “Swords v. Cthulhu.” You can hear his recorded games sessions on Role-Playing Public Radio, and listen to him bloviate on the Unspeakable Podcast and Podcast at Ground Zero.
Andrew Migliore is the founder and original director of the annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon. Andrew is also the co-author of Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft published by Night Shade Books and was founder and producer at Lurker Films where he launched The H. P. Lovecraft Collection, The Weird Tale Collection, and The Edgar Allan Poe Collection on DVD. See his past Founder articles at the Daily Lurker https://medium.com/daily-lurker