Lewis Kempfer

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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