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JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director of GableStage) continues his third season as
Artistic Director of GableStage with this production. He previously directed on many local
stages, including Coconut Grove Playhouse, New Theatre, Area Stage, Hollywood Boulevard Theatre, Players
Theatre, Ruth Foreman Theatre, Florida Shakespeare Theatre, City Theatre (Summer Shorts),
Hollywood Playhouse and Shores Performing Arts. At GableStage Adler has directed Skylight, Of Mice
and Men, Full Gallop, Psychopathia Sexualis, Closer, Killer Joe, This is Our Youth, Arms and the Man, Side
Man, Popcorn and Tape. Active in South Florida's film and theatre community for many
years, Adler has directed hundreds of innovative television commercials and industrial films.
His work has won many awards, including the Clio. Other directorial credits include several independent
feature films, a video version of the Broadway hit comedy "Doubles",
and a cable TV series. He has received ten nominations (most recently for Closer, Killer Joe
and Popcorn at GableStage), and twice won the Carbonell Award for Best Director. He also
received a Remy Award from the Theatre League for "Outstanding Contributions to South
Florida Theatre," and this past season was awarded the prestigious George Abbott Award by the
members of South Florida's arts, entertainment and media professions for "significant contributions
to the artistic life and cultural development of greater Miami, Fort Lauderdale and the Palm Beaches."
Adler studied Drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and graduated
from the Film Department at New York University.
TOM STOPPARD (Playwright) has authored Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Jumpers,
Travesties, Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink and The Invention
of Love. His shorter plays include The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Dirty Linen,
Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (music by
André Previn). Stoppard's plays have won seven Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award and
three Tony Awards. Mr. Stoppard has also written extensively for television and radio. His screenplays
as writer and co-writer include Brazil, Empire of the Sun, The Russia House, Billy Bathgate
and most recently, Shakespeare in Love, which won several awards including an Oscar and
BAFTA Award. He also directed his own screenplay of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,
which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
JEFF QUINN (Set/Lighting Design) has designed for the Fulton Opera House, Pennsylvania
Festival Theatre, Walt Disney Enterprises, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Hilton
Head Playhouse and the Kayagum Theatre in Seoul, Korea. Our audiences have seen his work in lighting for
last season's Closer, Killer Joe, This is Our Youth, Arms and the Man and Side
Man.
Other South Florida work includes The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and
Steel Pier at Actors' Playhouse, Little by Little at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,
Irma La Douce and The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 at Florida Repertory
Theatre, Anything Goes at the Hirschfield, HMS Pinafore and The
Price at Minorca Playhouse for Florida Shakespeare Theatre, Faith Healer for
New World Repertory Company, and Angels in America and Youth and Asia at New
Theatre. His dance lighting design includes work for Freddick Bratcher and Company, Maximum Dance, Ballet
Espagno Rosita Segovia, Momentum Dance Company, Ballet Theatre of Miami, Ballet Etudes and Ballet Blue
Ridge. Mr. Quinn chairs the Florida Steering Committee of United Scenic Artists (Local 829, I.A.T.S.E.) and
teaches at New World School of the Arts. He is married to director/choreographer Deborah Mello.
ANNE M. TOEWE (Costumes) is making her GableStage debut with this production. Since arriving in
South Florida four years ago, Anne has designed for New Theatre, Florida Atlantic University, Palm Beach
Atlantic College, Hollywood Playhouse, Mill Mountain Theatre, and is the Resident Costume Designer at
New World School of the Arts. Anne is a native Virginian, most recently lived in NYC where she worked on
the Broadway productions of Grease, Cats, The Tempest, Victor/Victoria, and Sunset
Boulevard. Her South Florida credits include Angels in America, The Woman in Black,
Into the Woods, My Fair Lady, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Crucible, and Theda Bara
and the Frontier Rabbi, as well as numerous commercials and music videos. Anne holds a Master's
in costume design from Tulane University, is on the Steering Committee of United Scenic Artist local 829
and is a member of Women of the Motion Picture Industry. She thanks Adam for reinspiring her love of live
theatre.
NATE RAUSCH (Sound Design) spends 87% of his time in very dark rooms, theatres and recording
studios! Past sound designs include: Tape at GableStage, the premiere of Arrivals and
Departures at Area Stage/Oye
Rep., Joseph, West Side Story and Big River at The Miracle Theatre, and
5 Women Wearing the Same Dress at Broward Center. Nate has also co-composed several musicals
for young audiences, including: Princess and the Pea, Miranda and the Frog Prince, and
Alice Underground. Nate asks that you take care of your hearing and do your part to lower
noise pollution. Visit www.soundmind.org for more
information.
PATIENCE SOBEL (Resident Stage Manager) marks her twelfth production at GableStage with
The Real Thing. She attended Florida State University, where she received a B.A. in Theatre
and began her professional career with a season at Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Since then, her work has
included a short stint at Primary Stages in NYC, followed by three years doing the in-school opera tour
with the Florida Grand Opera. Patience is pleased to again be working with familiar faces, as well as new
ones. She wishes her parents "the best of luck on their new projects!" and sends lots of love to
her family & friends.
OSVALDO PALACIOS (Technical Director) has enjoyed an active career in film, television and
theatre. He began his career in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he acted as director, dancer and
choreographer. In South Florida, Palacios has worked for The Hispanic Theater League, Area Stage, FLA/BRA,
Lenny Miller Productions, Channel 23, International Hispanic Theater Festival and La Salle High School in
the capacity of stage manager, technical director, coordinator and teacher. He has been resident
Technical Director at GableStage for the past two seasons.
DANIEL LEVAIN (Assistant Stage Manager) has been hard at work at GableStage since the beginning
of last year's season. He served as the ASM for Killer Joe, Side Man and Popcorn,
and assisted in many others. Before joining GableStage, Daniel worked on the theatre scene in Kansas City,
performing and managing a countless array of stage plays and musicals. Daniel would like to thank his
best friend for understanding, and his family for their support.
CAROLINA ASHMAN (Props) designed costumes for Ur Faus at New World School of the
Arts where she is a junior. She also recently designed sets for Mad Cat's Helluva Halloween,
Juggerknot Theatre Company, and Five Woman Wearing the Same Dress at Nova University, as
well as several independent films. Carolina was stage manager for Into the Woods at Colony
Theatre and for The Here and Now Festival at Miami Light Project in 1998 and 1999. Carolina worked on
Side Man, Popcorn and Tape, at GableStage.
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