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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, Popcorn, Tape, The Real Thing, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie, Citizen Tom Paine and
The Blue Room.
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", 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.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ (Playwright) is best known for such British television programs as
Poirot, Murder Most Horrid and Midsomer Murders - for which he has written many
episodes. He is also a well-known children's author with a dozen boks to his name, including two
collections of horror stories. However, theatre has always been his first love, and although
Mindgame is his first play, he has followed it with a study of the last years of Shakleton and
a musical, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
RICH SIMONE (Set Design) returns to GableStage for his fifth production, having
designed Tape, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie, This is Our Youth and Popcorn
which garnered him a Carbonell Nomination and a "Curtain Up" Award for Best Scenic Design of 2000.
Local credits include The Legacy at New Theatre, Winter Shorts and
Summer Shorts for City Theatre, 2 ½ Jews, The Comet's Tale, Parallel Lives,
Same Time Next Year and Pump Boys & Dinettes at the Hollywood Playhouse,
The Apple Tree, Sweet Charity, Storyville, and Dames at Sea at the Shores Performing
Arts Theatre, Better Living, Echoes, and The Singular Dorothy Parker at the
Hollywood Boulevard Theatre. Rich also enjoys his "other" careers as a professional actor and
stage manager, and was seen in last season's Key West Theatre Festival.
This fall he will be making his South Florida Directorial debut with the Miami premiere of Pageant
at the Shores Performing Arts Theatre. He thanks Jack for his infinite patience.
JEFF QUINN (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
Closer, Killer Joe, This is Our Youth, Arms and the Man, Side Man, The Real Thing, Adam Baum and
the Jew Movie and The Blue Room.
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.
NATE RAUSCH (Sound Design) spends 87.7% of his time in very dark rooms, theatres and recording
studios! Sound design credits include: Tape, The Real Thing, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie,
and The Blue Room 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. He also did sound design for Mad Cat Productions at
Miami Light Project.
DANIELA SCHWIMMER (Costume Designer) has designed costumes for History of America
(Abridged), Simpatico, Skylight, Of Mice and Men, Full Gallop, Psychopathia Sexualis, Closer
(for which she was nominated for a Carbonell), Killer Joe, This is Our Youth, Side Man, Tape
and The Blue Room at GableStage. She was part of the costume crew at Actor's Playhouse for
productions of Das Barbecu and She Loves Me. Daniela painted TV sets for
Univision and Channel 2, assisted the costume designer on TNT's The Man Who Captured Eichmann
with Robert Duvall. She has also assisted wardrobe for commercials and a TV channel in Argentina. Daniela
worked in Alfredo's Atellier, a costume shop in Miami. She would like to thank her husband, Ricardo,
for his love and support.
DANIEL LEVAIN (Stage Manager) has been at GableStage since for two seasons. He stage managed
Adam Baum and the Jew Movie, and served as the Assistant Stage Manager for Killer Joe,
Side Man and Popcorn, as well as
assisting 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.
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.
MONICA SODERMAN (Assistant Stage Manager) has been working on the South Florida theatre scene for
several years, starting out at Area Stage, where she stage managed One for the Road, Deceptions,
Antisemitropolis, Oleanna and Speed-the-Plow. Other stage management credits include
Grave Concerns and Miss Julie at New Theatre, as well as the Annual FLABRA
Festival (area in conjunction with Tigertail Productions) and the Carbonell Awards in 1998, 1999 and 2000.
She is thrilled to be back at GableStage after working here on Closer, The Meeting, Adam Baum and
the Jew Movie and The Blue Room.
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, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie, Citizen Tom
Paine and The Blue Room at GableStage.
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