Who's Who . . . Backstage

JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director) continues his fourth 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, The Blue Room, Mindgame, Boy Gets Girl and James Joyce's The Dead. 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.

EDWARD ALBEE (Playwright) authored the following plays: The Zoo Story (Vernon Rice Award), The Death of Bessie Smith, Fam and Yam, The American Dream (Foreign Press Association Award), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony and Drama Critics Circle awards for best play), The Ballad of the Sad Café, Tiny Alice, Malcolm, A Delicate Balance (Pulitzer Prize), Everything in the Garden, Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, All Over, Seascape (Pulitzer Prize), Listening, Counting the Ways, Lady from Dubuque, Lolita, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Finding the Sun, Walking, Marriage Play, Three Tall Women (Pulitzer Prize), The Lorca Play and Fragments-A Concerto Grosso. Member: The Dramatists Guild Council, P.E.N. American, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, International Theatre Institute USA (President). He received the Gold Medal in Drama from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1996, was among the winners of Kennedy Center Honors.

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, The Blue Room (2001 Carbonell nomination), Mindgame and Boy Gets Girl. Other South Florida work includes The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life In the Universe and Steel Pier (Actors' Playhouse), Little By Little (Coconut Grove Playhouse) Irma La Douce and The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 (Florida Repertory Theatre) Anything Goes (Hirschfeld), HMS Pinafore and The Price (Minorca Playhouse for Florida Shakespeare Theatre) Faith Healer (New World Repertory Company) and Angels in America and Youth and Asia (New Theatre). His dance lighting design includes work for Freddick Bratcher and Company, Maximum Dance, Ballet Espagnol 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% 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, The Blue Room, Mindgame and Boy Gets Girl 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 Design) 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, The Blue Room, Mindgame and Boy Gets Girl 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 & a TV channel in Argentina, and in Alfredo's Atellier, a costume shop in Miami. She thanks her husband, Ricardo, for his love and support.

DANIEL LEVAIN (Production Manager) has been devoting every ounce of energy in his body to his jealous mistress the theater for the past 11 years. Having worked in nearly every facet of production, he is happy to find himself in south Florida and at GableStage. Daniel is in his second season having been stage manager for Mindgame, The Blue Room, Citizen Tom Paine, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie and James Joyce's The Dead. Before joining GableStage, Daniel worked as an actor and stage manager in the Kansas City area, performing or managing productions such as West Side Story and Alice in Wonderland. Daniel would like to extend his profound gratitude to Joseph Adler for the opportunity, to his family for understanding, and to his friends 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 fourth season as resident Technical Director at GableStage.