Contact
For all inquiries about Kevin Kling, including performance booking, storytelling, and playwrighting, please contact:
Mary McGeheran
mmcgeheran@comcast.net
For anything related to Kevin’s recordings:
Rob Simonds
chill@noside.com
18 Responses to “Contact”
The New Book!
cds + itunes
This is a message for Kevin, if he ever gets this stuff:
Hi Kevin: my name is John Idstrom and I grew up in Champlin in the 1960’s back when it was still gravel roads. Was looking at some of the clips of you and saw the one about your family and lightning. I remember that night you were talking about when there were all those tornados. My buddy’s house in Fridley got HIT by 2 twisters that night. I was afraid of tornadoes for a couple years after, until my dad bought me a surplus army helmet. Every time ‘CCO would come on with the tornado warning horn I would walk around the yard with the helmet on, without a care in the world.
These days I live in Tacoma, Washington and am looking forward to seeing your show at the Rep. My 13 year old daughter loves your stuff – we have one of your CD’s (Off the Shallow End) and the kid and I just got done reading your new book (”dad, was life really like that when you were a kid? Yes kiddo, it was exactly like Kevin describes it.”).
Hope you are enjoying your stay in Seattle. It’s a nice city. No Minneapolis, but nice.
Hi Kevin:
Was having a rough day, fighting off a lung infection here. Picked up your book…and proceded to laugh MAO all afternoon! Being from MN, born in the early ’50’s, this is all so relatable and is the funniest stuff I’ve read in years!! Even my 25 yr old son was laughing at the parts I read to him, and it’s hard to make him laugh.
I’m gonna tell ~everyone~ about this book…..
Thank you! Keep ‘em coming!
Kevin,
I just came home from seeing “How? How? Why? Why?” at the Lee K. Theatre here in Seattle. I am from northwest Iowa (Cherokee) and came out here 8 years ago for my nursing. Your play made me laugh, cry and even more homesick! Are we midwesterners the only ones with such strong family bonds ? My family farm has been ours for 128 years!
Thank you for talking about God and yes, I tell him thank you too. Even for the simple things while sitting on my steps at the farm. I would look up and thank him for the blue sky, green grass and those calves playing in the pasture. Even on a bad day.
Your outlook and attitude projected in this play make you a beautiful soul. If that is what you are like most days, I wanna hang out with you!
Thanks again for such an touching story in so many ways. I needed the humor, especially tonight.
How can I get a copy of the Dachsie poster. It is a fabulous as you are.
Thank you.
I visited Minneapolis for the recent Public Library Association Conference and wanted to share the six things I liked about Minneapolis as a first time visitor:
1. The giant spoon with a cherry at the sculpture park – made me hungry for ice cream
2. Desert at Chez Collette – Bourbon Vanilla Crème Brulée, of course!
3. PLA (since I went for work – I have to include…)Conference speaker, Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries, talking about Jane Eyre and the woman in the attic and the fact that the play was at the Guthrie Theater. Meg Cabot compared Jane Eyre to Flowers in the Attic, a trashy, popular novel about a brother and sister locked in an attic and an incestuous relationship – most teenage girls have read both. Her quote, “There is a way better attic in this book and Mr. Rochester is not having sex with anyone related to him.”
4. The red patent leather high heels purchased pos conference at Macy’s in a highly caffeinated state – no buyers’ remorse, they look great!
5. The Mill City Museum’s movie by Kevin Kling “Minneapolis in 19 Minutes Flat.” (Witty and sensitive at the same time – something hard to do in 19 minutes)
6. The Mary Tyler Moore statute in front of Macy’s, veering off into the tourist/kitch side of Minneapolis; the light rail train ride to Minnehaha Falls, the statute of Hiawatha and Minnehaha, and finally full circle to the Mall of America, where I walked around for a couple of hours while my co-workers entertained themselves at the amusement park and we met for dinner at the California Café.
My favorite nineteen minutes were the ones spent with Kevin!
Sorry we didn’t get to see the “real” Kevin. Good luck in Seattle with the play.
Karen @FPL (Four Corners Storytelling Festival)
Hello Kevin,
I was in the audience at the Seattle Rep a few nights ago and thoroughly enjoyed your sly approach. And the ultimate tenderness of the whole woven tapestry. And I laughed too. Thank you, indeed, is the right word for the whole experience. So thank you, Kevin.
In truth, I was there conducting research about how the Rep markets and produces a one-man show, a storyteller at that. I am interested in bringing my touring production called Salmonpeople to the attention of the Rep in the next two or three years. Salmonpeople is about the space that’s not there between salmon and people. It’s the huge story of our bioregion. I wear hip boots.
Now here’s the interesting part, last fall I performed to a packed house in Portland as part of a national conference on sustainable economics and there was this woman there from Minnesota, an economic development consultant who helped get one or more of your governors or senators or somebody elected, and she wants to bring Salmonpeople to colleges and theatres in your neck of the woods. Got Salmon? But she thinks, and I concur, that the show and my follow-up work as a strategic storyteller might be just the thing to stimulate a new spirit of bioregional thinking in the region.
I want to learn more from you about the lay of the land in Minnesota. Are you available for lunch as you conclude your Rep run or do you commute to Minnesota? Did I read that you can do it in 19 minutes? I would be honored if you said yes. Thank you, Kevin.
Peter
Thank you for bringing your story to Seattle. I was just as moved tonight as I was so many years ago when my wife and I first saw you here. And, tonight, we were so pleased to introduce our son (14) to the person we have been delighted to know through your stage and NPR appearances. Thanks, peace, love, Dan Rosenberg
Dear Kevin,
Wanted to tell you how much we enjoyed your show. The big Pink chair in the show was the same color/material as my grandmothers..She died when I was 4 and I remember being at her house and playing in cardboard boxes with my cousin, and looking under the bed for coins..that my grandpa always tossed for us..Hadn’t though about that for a long time.
Also..My friend Ken ran a marathon last weekend..I told him how great he looked (He looked terrible.) I only did the 1/2 marathon..so I’m sure I looked much better ..in fact since the endorphins can be like a drug..I know I looked good when I finished!
Cheers! (I just got back from New Zealand and they say that alot there!)
Eileen Olson
(Yes my grandparents were Swedish and met in Minnesota!)
Kevin,
Just wanted to let you know what a pleasure it was to work with you on your audio book. We have listened to the edited read and it sounds terrific! Highbridge has listened and they are pleased. Frank Randle recorded some guitar bumpers for the in between chapters and we will add them this week and be completely done with the project.
Again, thanks for the opportunity and we look forward to another project! It was a hoot
Hey Kevin,
I need to talk with you, professionally. It’s been too long. Give me a call at your convenience. 612-986-5600 Mindy
My sister passed along two of your CD’s for our trip from MN to CO (19 hours, two days). My daughters (11 and
were with me as we travelled two days in the car. When the DVD wasn’t playing for the girls, I begged them to listen to the CD’s with me. We all were laughing and had a great time. You are a wonderful story teller! We loved the story about driving in the car to your grandmothers for christmas.
Thanks for sharing your gift! We look forward to seeing you at the State Fair!
So: I am shuffling around, moving things in my studio/workroom/general repository and my copy of Lloyd’s Prayer pops off the shelf. I have just finished re-reading it and reliving the fun I had playing it at the Phoenix Theatre in the early spring of 1989. And now I am eager to read The Dog Says How and hear your music.
Be amazed, indeed.
HI Kevin – Just saw your 19 minute film, it was great. I just noted your last name and I am into genealogy and am curious, I had a uncle Wayne Kling married to a Beda (Larson) King here in Minneapolis. He is buried at Fort Snelling Cemetary. They had one child Mary Charlotte (Kling) O’Grady. Just wondering if you are a cousin to my cousins.
hey, I just got back from the timpanogos storytelling festival in Orem UT. You were my favorite story teller by far and laughed my ass off. you have an amazing talent and i would love to get a hold of more of your stuff. God bless you and I hope to hear from you if you have the time, thanks, Jon.
I have just finished reading The Dog Says How, and I must tell you that I think you are an incredible storyteller! I’ve heard you tell stories on NPR, so I could hear your voice as I read each piece. Having lived in Minneapolis for my first 40 years, I was especially captivated by your story about your brother’s bachelor party, where you all end up at a Twin’s game. What a way to keep the crowd involved at a ball game, and what a sweet ending with our beloved Kirby Puckett saluting you! Keep sharing your talent with the world!
Kevin:
You don’t know me, but I feel like have have known you for most of my adult life, as my (future) wife at the time was your first grade teacher, and WOW, did she ever rave about you. Our daugher, Christine Nelson Karki, was also a product of Park Brook School and then a theatre major at Gustavus being mentored, of course, by Rob Gardner. She is an avid fan of yours. She and her husband, Tom, are presently doing quite a bit of work with MMT.
I was deeply moved by your book, “The Dog Says How!” At one point laughing my head off, and then in other places being moved to tears. Your unwillingness to allow your accident injuries to control your life is truly inspirational to me.
I must admit I loved your references to Mike Damyonovich and Ed Sand as well as Rod Felber. All of whom I know quite well.
Keep up the wonderful work, Kevin, and Thanks so much!
Ted Nelson
Hi Kevin,
As we sadly climbed back into the car in Jonesborough for the trip home we knew exactly what to do to make us feel better – pop in Your CD! And that we did and laughed like crazy all the way up route 81. When it was over we had some quiet time to reflect on your humor, wisdom,and incredible ability to be as good on a CD as you are in person (not everyone can do that). Can’t wait for next year.
Thank you, Kevin, for sharing. Judy P.
Kevin, My very first Story Telling event. Jonesborough, 2008. What a great event punctuated by your exuberance in your telling. We, my wife and I, loved each and every story you told. You are truly a master. My goal now is to get a story telling event going around my area. I’ve contacted my son, executive director of the Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History, Jackson, Michigan about hosting an event in his grand room there. I understand there is an event in Jackson. It is my hope they can grow it.
Thanks again for making our first trip to Jonesborough a memorable event.
Gerald Gordy