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JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director) continues his third season as
Artistic Director of GableStage with this production. Previously, he 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 he directed Skylight, Of Mice and Men,
Full Gallop, Psychopathia Sexualis, Closer, Killer Joe, This is Our Youth, Arms and the Man, Side
Man and Popcorn. 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
an 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." Adler studied Drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and graduated
from the Film Department at New York University.
HOWARD FAST (Author) is the extremely prolific author of historical novels, biographies, popular
histories, children's stories, film scripts, plays, detective fiction, science fiction and "Zen
Stories." He was questioned by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950 and thrown in
jail for three months because he would not provide the names of contributors to a hospital with which he
had been associated during the Spanish Civil War. Blacklisted upon his release, Fast started his own
publishing company, the Blue Heron Press. In 1952, he ran for Congress on the American Labor Party ticket,
and was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1954.
As one of the most important American writers of the 20th Century, he has never been given
full credit for his contribution to the essential tales of American culture, the American Revolution and
immigrant acculturation. He has enjoyed wide popularity for his writing, however, and his novels have sold
close to 80 million copies. Many of his works were published to considerable acclaim and are still widely
assigned as texts in high schools and universities. Among them are The Last Frontier (1941),
The Unvanquished (1942), Freedom Road (1944) and April Morning
(1961). In 1986, he adapted his novel, Citizen Tom Paine (1943), into a two act play. Stanley
Kubrick based his classic movie Spartacus, on the novel by the same name written by Fast in
1951.
Mr. Fast is 87 years old and lives in Connecticut.
LYLE BASKIN (Scenic Design) has designed sets for Coconut Playhouse, Burt Reynolds Dinner
Theatre, Area Stage, New Theatre, Acme Theatre, Hollywood Playhouse, Players State Theatre and Florida
Shakespeare - for plays including Streamers, Hamlet, The Elephant Man, The Apple Tree, One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Long Day's Journey Into Night. He has designed seven
previous shows with Director Joseph Adler; Killing of Sister George (Players Theatre),
Cantorial (Hollywood Playhouse), Shadow Box (Coconut Grove Playhouse) and here
at GableStage, Skylight, Of Mice and Men, Full Gallop (Carbonell nomination for Best Set
Design), Psychopathia Sexualis, Closer and Killer Joe. He has also designed for
Ring Theatre (U.of M.), New World School of the Arts, Miami-Dade Community College, Bloomsberg Theatre in
Pennsylvania, Corning Summer Theatre, and in Ft. Lauderdale Presbyterian Church. For the past seven years,
Lyle has worked in the special events industry and is currently Creative Director at M.E. Productions in
Pembroke Park. Lyle lives with his wife and son in Coral Gables.
ANNE M. TOEWE (Costume Design) marks her third production at GableStage. 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, but lived most recently in New York City where
she worked on such Broadway productions as Grease, Cats, The Tempest, Victor/Victoria, and
Sunset Boulevard. Some of 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, serves on the Steering Committee of United Scenic Artist local
829 and is a member of Women of the Motion Picture Industry. She would like to thank Adam for re-inspiring
her love of live theatre.
TRAVIS NEFF (Lighting Design) has designed for plays at New Theatre in Coral Gables such as
Sexy & Miggs (original design in Key West, FL), Far East, The House of Seven
Gable (Carbonell nomination), The Book of Ruth, I am a Camera and Electra.
Other design credits include Helluva Halloween (Miami Light Box), Confidentially, Cole,
South Beach or Bust, the SAVE Foundation Variety Show (Colony Theatre) and The Compleat
Works of Wilm Shkspr (Abrgd) (Florida Shakespeare). He has been Lighting Designer/Technical Director
of the Garden Theatre in Green Turtle Cay, Abacos, Bahamas, since 1996, with the design credits for
The Forgotten Carols, The Search for Signs... and numerous other winter concerts and fall showcases.
Travis has also worked as a laser production operator in Palm Springs, CA and Pensacola, FL, and is the
local Lighting Director for Bongos Café and Wilderness Grill restaurants.
NATE RAUSCH (Sound Design) spends 87% of his time in very dark rooms, theatres and recording
studios! Past sound designs include: Tape, The Real Thing and Adam Baum and the Jew
Movie 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. Please visit
www.soundmind.org for more information.
DANIEL LEVAIN (Stage Manager) has been at GableStage since the beginning
of last year's season. He stage managed Adam Baum and the Jew Movie, and served as the
Assistant Stage Manager for Killer Joe, Side Man and Popcorn,
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.
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. This is his third season as
resident Technical Director at GableStage.
CAROLINA ASHMAN (Props) has been the stage manager for The Here and Now Festival for
the Miami Light Project for 1999, 2000 and 2001. She was also the stage manager for Under Eden
with Collage Dance Theater and just finished a tour of Three Lives with Core Ensemble through
M.I.T. and Wellesley Universities as road manager. She was the set designer for Five Women Wearing
the Same Dress at Nova University, Helluva Halloween with Mad Cat Productions, and also
designed Action and Coitus for Juggerknot Theater Company. Carolina was prop
master for Popcorn, Side Man, Tape, The Real Thing and Adam Baum and the Jew
Movie at GableStage.
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