About the Storm Theatre
"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still?" TA, III, i, l.264
Mission
Storms are variously identified with disturbances of the natural atmosphere as well as the landscape of the soul. They can encompass explosions of both an electrical or a passionate nature and have been represented as assaults, sometimes violent, upon fortified citadels or secret, internal retreats.
A group of like-minded individuals shared a desire to establish a theatre company that would create a meaningful impact on the lives of the people who came to its productions. The "Storm" struck them as an ideal image of what their efforts might accomplish. A storm grows from elemental forces and, inevitably, explodes one reality in to another; it is a journey through catharsis to regeneration. Just as the Globe and The Rose portrayed the breadth and complexity of the lives Shakespeare uncovered on those stages, so The Storm was an apt choice to reflect the theatre experiences they hoped to project for their audiences; a reawakening to the awe-inspiring truths of our shared humanity, its beauty and its potential.
Since 1997, when it was established as a not-for-profit company, the theatre has drawn upon the resources of its founders, some acting friends and a growing cadre of professional associates whose commitment to theatre has been enhanced by the creative freedom fostered here; as a consequence, utilizing established classics, under-acknowledged gems from the world repertory and vigorous, new visions of life today, The Storm has succeeded in offering audiences compelling documentation of what it means to be human.
There have been a variety of storms - some intense, others brief, always restorative.
Welcome to our storm. Please come out for many more.
Staff
Peter Dobbins, Artistic Director
Peter is a cofounder of The Storm Theatre, and has directed such Storm productions as T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, Dion Boucicault’s The Shaughraun, John Regis’s Stavrogin’s Confession, Stewart Parker’s Spokesong, William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night, Karol Wojtyla’s The Jeweler’s Shop, Job, Jeremiah, and Our God’s Brother, the North American Premiere of House of Desires by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and the world premieres of The Last Starfighter by Skip Kennon and Fred Landau and Linnea by John Regis. As an actor, he has been seen as Alfred Evelyn in Edward Bulwar Lytton’s Money and Lolo in Pirandello’s Henry IV and has played leading roles in various regional theatres.
Chance Michaels, Producing Director
Chance has produced over a dozen shows for The Storm Theatre. Other New York credits include Anna Christie and the New York Premiere of Dogs of the Blue Gods by award-winning South African playwright Ian Fraser. Regionally, he has produced and directed shows as diverse as Angels in America: Parts One and Two, Equus, Tales of the Lost Formicans, Clive Barker’s The History of the Devil, Christopher Durang’s Titanic, Burn This, Talk Radio, and Rocket to the Moon. Chance is also an independent film craftsman and director with nearly twenty years laboring in the pilot and movie-of-the-week mines, and was formerly a writer for The Onion, (“America’s Finest News Source”™)
Stephen Logan Day, Associate Artistic Director
Stephen has fulifilled a variety of functions for the Storm Theatre since 1997, as diverse as producing and directing 'Ross', to serving as Bicycle Mechanic & Consultant on Spokesong. For the Storm, Stephen also directed The Power and The Glory, The Rougeries of Scapin, and Noon Divide (co-director with Peter Dobbins) and served as Assistant Director on Arrah na Pogue, As You Like It, The Time of Your Life, Twelfth Night, Gillette, Stavrogin's Confession, and The Brute. Recently he also produced Kara Johnstad's internationally acclaimed show, Le Grand Love, presented in New York City and Berlin with Rolfe Zielke, Rhani Krija and Stephan Braun. As an actor, Stephen has played more than 50 roles in a wide variety of genres and venues in New York and Regionally. His education includes Boston University, Uta Hagen and Yale School of Drama.
Robert Carroll, Director of Development
Robert's Storm Theatre credits include Time of Your Life, As You Like It, The Shaughraun, Jeremiah, and The Tidings Brought to Mary. He is also the author of a T.V. pilot "Reasonable Doubt" (two actors who get tricked into going to law school) and a play "The Believers" (political consultants struggling with trying to win an election during the first few hours of Primary Day). Robert has extensive experience as a political consultant for Congressional, NYC Comptroller, NY City Council, and District Leader campaigns. A graduate of SUNY Binghamton where he studied Theater and History, he has done further training at Stella Adler Studios, the Atlantic Theatre and with Austin Pendleton. Robert is a member of The Alchemy Theater Company of Manhattan and has worked with many other theater companies around New York. Robert is currently getting a law degree from New York Law School.
Board of Directors
Peter Dobbins, President
Tiffiny Gulla
Carl Pasbjerg
Jim Scully
Jeff Smith
Rev. Luke M. Sweeney, S.T.L.
The Storm Theatre was founded in 1997 as a nonprofit theatre company and has 501C(3) status. Donations are 100% tax deductible.
Tickets
for all STORM THEATRE productions are available
at the door (performance days only, beginning approximately 1 hour before curtain),
or through SmartTix.
To purchase tickets, visit www.smarttix.com
or call (212) 868-4444
For
group reservations (over 10 people) email stormtheatre@hotmail.com.