Lance Baldwin
With the birth of his son, Lance wanted to create something closer to home. He began to type out the basics of Lie Q while the world played out in front him. It was Christmas. Things were getting busy at his regular job at the Still, the little local pub his family and two other families teamed up to create. Fresh out of college is his brother took the LSAT and was invited to join Mensa. Local Olympic Hero and Timonium resident Michael Phelps was all over the news because of his recent glory in the Olympics.
And then of all beer joints in town Bernd had to walk into his and say, “ so I hear you run an Improvisation troupe at at Loyola…”.
Bernd Linhart
On one of his return trips to Baltimore, his old Loyola Blakefield Accounting teacher Mr Marty Stewart told him of this Loyola grad-NYC actor named Lance who ran the Improv Troupe at the school. Mr. Stewart told him to go to the Still in Timonium on a Monday night. And of course tell ‘em Mr. Stewart sent you.
Those Monday nights became a tradition that extends to Lance and Bernd’s founding of the Gunpowder Repertory Theatre and the sharing of Lance’s Lie Q script.
After creating a handful of short films, Bernd wanted to make a Indie Film. He read and loved Lie Q but it was not until he listened to Edward Burns explain his model for The Newlyweds that Bernd thought he could help turn LIE Q into a feature film.
Bernd told Lance if we lose the kids and the dogs., we can do it….and the rest as they say is history.