Biography
LB McGill has been a musician, designer, singer, performer, writer, director, and most importantly, an artist for the last 30 years.
Loralie "LB" McGill began her theater career in 1979 as a singer/songwriter/performer. One of her first performances was a lead roll in original play "Carla", performed for the American College Theatre Festival in Kansas City, KS. Her talents and improvisation skills in stage production were enhanced by other 'On the Road'performances as a song writer and singer throughout the USA. She moved to San Diego with an extensive background in the theatre, having participated in a number of productions, both on the road and in theatre. Arriving in San Diego in 1982, she worked with Lorelei's Singing Telegrams, San Diego, CA, as a Singer, Performer, and sought after Costume Designer. She successfully wrote a video script for Keith Green's "The Prodigal Son," 1984, and then moved on to produce fashion shows for Neil West Productions, San Diego, CA and De La Siren Productions San Diego, CA. In 1991 she worked as a professional clown with a children's entertainment company Nugget's Window, San Diego, CA. She also served as a director and production manager for Nugget's Window productions. She has written a succession of stage shows, including, 'The Boots & Riley TV Show, 1992; several shows for the Del Mar Fair. San Diego, CA, 1993; and a video script hearing impaired children in sign language entitled "All Beyond Castle Dark," that was registered with Writers Guild of America, west, Inc, 1995. She was also a salaried entertainer at the Del Mar Fair, Carlsbad, CA. The North Coast Repertory Theater offered Loralie a position as their stage manager for "I Hate Hamlet" 1994 and costume designer for "Shadowlands," 1995. "I Hate Hamlet" and "Shadowlands" were performed at the North Coast Repertory Theatre, San Diego, CA.
Loralie owned and operated PaperAnimals.com 1997-2005, where she perfected her Paper Mache art and has written a children's book called "Winkie and The Sunflower". She founded Classic Youth Theater, Inc in 2005, in Carlsbad California, where she served as CEO and Production Director. Her first production, "A Street Car Named Desire" was performed in March of 2004. She has produced and directed over 30 productions including "Harvey", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Arsenic And Old Lace", "You Can't Take It With You", "Midsummer Night's Dream", "Blithe Spirit, "The Odd Couple" (the female version), "Barefoot In The Park", Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", "The Matchmaker", "Pygmalion", "Hamlet", "Abie's Irish Rose", "Saint Joan", "The Importance of Being Earnest", and "Dracula". She also adapted and directed "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "Peter Rabbit", and "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". In 2011, she wrote, directed, and produced the original comedy "At a Bar in South Park", a play about the meeting, courtship, and engagement to her husband, Brian Ardolino.
In 2012, Loralie and Brian launched Tin KB Coffee Co. Pictures. Loralie would write the adaptation, direct, and produce their first featurette, "Venus & Adonis: Curse of Love." "Dead Serious" is the second production from Tin KB to be filmed in 2013. In 2012, Loralie also recently wrote the original screenplay "Cameo Appearance" for a Slovenian actress. In 2013, Tin KB plans to start pre-production on the film, "The Watcher".
LB McGill was born Laura Beth McGill in 1963 to Graham and Patricia McGill in Amsterdam, NY. She was the youngest of three children. In 1965, she became part of a broken home, when her mother left her father in the dead of night with the children. In part to her mother attending school, working as a single mother, and the tragic death of one of her older brothers in 1969, she was mostly left to her own devices through her childhood. "Laurie" as she was known by family, maintained a happy and outgoing spirit in the Chicago area where she was raised. As a child, she took ballet lessons, guitar lessons, loved to sing, taught herself to sew, rode horses in the summers, and loved the theatre. Spending a great deal of time alone, she would lose herself in movies and make-believe as a way to escape.
A restless soul, LB would run away at 15 and spend the next 3 years living with friends or relatives and hitch hiked cross country 3 times during that period. She spent time in California, New York, Illinois, and New Mexico. In 1981, at 18, she married, had 3 children, she left the marriage in 1991, married again in 1997, had 2 more children, she left her second husband in 2004, and she married her current husband and partner, Brian, in 2009.
Through the gauntlet of her difficult childhood, troubled marriages, and large family, LB McGill has developed into a visionary and original artist. She has beautiful voice, creative mind, loving heart, and untamable spirit. We can only wait to see what she will have in store for her next chapter in filmmaking.
