Producer/Director Arnold Leibovit optioned the feature buddy comedy "I Want my Baby Back" from InkTip.com writing duo Stephanie Storey and Mike Gandolfi after discovering it on InkTip.com. Arnold was an Executive Producer on Dreamworks' and Warner Bros' "The Time Machine" (with Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons), among other feature credits. With an Emmy, a Peabody, a Golden Globe, and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding TV News between them, not to mention a bevy of television writing and producing credits, Storey and Gandolfi had the style, skill and experience that Leibovit was looking for. This...
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All eight episodes of the first season of Don't Make Me Sick were filmed in Los Angeles on October 3rd and 4th, 2009. Despite a major location delay, the dedicated cast and crew shot over 37 pages of material in less than 17 hours (spread over two days).
Don't Make Me Sick is a new medical comedy web series about a hypochondriac doctor and his odd-ball staff. It stars Mike Gandolfi (Gilmore Girls), Caitlin Muelder (New York Film Academy), and Susane Lee (Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy). Mike Gandolfi, who is an award-winning comedy writer, also wrote the series.
The series features hysterical...
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Stephanie Storey attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers workshop in early August, where she studied under screenwriters Judith Rascoe (Havana), Thomas Rickman (Coal Miner's Daughter), Michael Urban (Saved!), Camille Thomasson (The Brooke Ellison Story), Eugene Corr (Desert Bloom), and Lisa Rosenberg (The Riddle).
Every summer for 40 years, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley has brought together writers for workshops, individual conferences, lectures, panels, readings, and discussions of the craft and the business of writing. Only 25 screenwriters are selected each year to attend...
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Extraordinary Proof has been selected to play at the Broad Humor Film Festival in Venice, California on Saturday, June 13th. It will play as part of the Shorts Program #1. Writer-director Stephanie Storey and Executive Producer and co-star Mike Gandolfi will attend the event. Tickets are on sale now.
Following the films, Stephanie will participate in a question and answer session with the other filmmakers.
Extraordinary Proof was written and directed by Stephanie Storey. It stars Shae Kennedy, Ruthie Cullinane, Bret Porter and Mike Gandolfi.
The Broad Humor Film Festival showcases comedy...
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Mike Gandolfi plays Lopakhin in the upcoming Cherry Orchard Project, directed by Camille Thoman and Dan Milne.
THE CHERRY ORCHARD PROJECT is an experimental performance piece based on the classic play by Anton Chekhov. It takes place in an extraordinary private residence, incorporating elements of movement, live music, mime and song, with additional texts developed from the performers own lives. The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov's final play, was written one year before the Russian Revolution in 1905 and is the story of a family losing their home. Written on the eve of his death, Chekhov was responding...
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Thanksgiving Seconds was selected to premiere at the third annual Little Rock Film Festival, supported by the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library.
Writer-director Stephanie Storey and lead actress Allison Joy Dykstra will attend the festival on May 13-17, 2009.
Thanksgiving Seconds will show on Thursday, May 14th at 6:15 PM and again on Saturday, May 16th at 6:00 PM at the Riverdale Cinemas #8. Tickets are available at the festival website, www.littlerockfilmfestival.org
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(The following article has been transcribed from the Hot Springs, Arkansas Sentinel-Record from Sunday, May 10, 2009.)
Lakeside High School graduate Stephanie Storey, who has produced more than 250 hours of television programming for shows such as "Tavis Smiley" on PBS and Lewis Black's "Root of All Evil" on Comedy Central, will premiere a new film in Little Rock this month.
Her short film, "Thanksgiving Seconds," will premiere at this year's Little Rock Film Festival at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, May 14, and 6 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at Riverdale Cinemas.
Storey will attend with her family...
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Storeytime Entertainment’s Volume 1 DVD is being released just in time for the holidays. The DVD features two short comedies written and directed by Stephanie Storey and comedic performances by Mike Gandolfi, an actor best known for his recurring role on WB’s Gilmore Girls.
Storeytime Entertainment’s first-ever DVD is available from the website www.Storeytimes.com starting in November of 2008. The DVD features two short films, Extraordinary Proof and Thanksgiving Seconds.
The romantic comedy Extraordinary Proof stars the talented Shae Kennedy as Tess, a woman who doesn’t believe in destiny....
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The short romantic comedy, Extraordinary Proof, premiered to laughter and applause at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater on Sunday, October 19th, 2008. The movie is writer/director Stephanie Storey’s first narrative film.
Stephanie has an Art degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. In Hollywood, she has produced over 500 half-hours of aired television for shows such as Tavis Smiley on PBS and Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil on Comedy Central. She is also a screenwriter with her husband...
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Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning comedy writer Mike Gandolfi joins with writer/director/producer Stephanie Storey to create a new production company, Storeytime Entertainment.
Storeytime Entertainment is a Los Angeles-based production company dedicated to producing comedic material for the web, TV and screen. Web-based material will premiere on the company’s website, www.Storeytimes.com.
Executive Producer, Mike Gandolfi, started his career as a stand-up comic, performing in comedy clubs all across the country. Mike’s award-winning writing career includes credits on such television...
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