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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, James Joyce's The Dead, and Edward Albee's The Play About the
Baby.
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.
ERNEST J. GAINES (Novelist) was born in 1933 on River Lake Plantation in racially segregated Pointe Coupee Parish, La. Because no local schools would teach black children past the eighth grade, at age 15 Mr. Gaines went to San Francisco to continue his education. He graduated from San Francisco State University, published a handful of stories and went on to win a coveted fellowship to Stanford University. Since then, Mr. Gaines has written eight novels, including Catherine Cormier, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the 1993 National Book Critics Award. Other honors include the highly esteemed John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1993) for lifetime achievement, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship (both in 1971). He holds honorary doctorates from Brown University, Bard College, Tulane University, and Loyola University, among others. Mr. Gaines now divides his time between San Francisco and Lafayette, Louisiana, where he is Writer-in-Residence at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
ROMULUS LINNEY (Playwright) is the author of three novels and more than 30 plays, which have been seen over the past 30 years in resident theatres across the United States, as well as in New York, Los Angeles, London, Vienna, Oslo and other European cities. They include The Sorrows of Frederick, Holy Ghosts, Childe Byron, Sand Mountain, Three Poets and 2. Six of his one-act plays have appeared in the Best Short Plays series. Mr. Linney has received two Fellowships from the NEA as well as Guggenheim, Rockefeller and National Foundation for the Arts grants, a 1980 Obie Award, three Hollywood Drama-Logue Awards, the Mishima Prize for Fiction, the 1999 Award of Merit Medal from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a 1992 Obie Award for sustained Excellence in Playwriting. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Oberlin College, and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Oberlin College, Appalachian State University and Wake Forest University. He is currently Professor of Playwriting in the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School, and at the Juilliard School. He lives in New York City.
LYLE BASKIN (Set Design) has designed sets for Coconut Grove Playhouse, Actors' Playhouse (Evita, 2001 Carbonell nomination), 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 ten 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, Killer Joe, Citizen Tom Paine and Boy Gets Girl. He has also designed for Ring Theatre (U. of M.), New World School of the Arts, Miami-Dade Community College, Bloomsburg Theatre in Pennsylvania, Corning Summer Theatre, and Ft. Lauderdale Presbyterian Church. For the past eight 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.
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, Boy Gets Girl and Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby. 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 is a member of 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.
MICHAEL J. HOFFMAN (Music/Sound Design) is an award-winning composer, arranger and producer with over 30 years experience in South Florida. His score for the documentary film, Heroes Espanos, garnered an Emmy nod. He has also won numerous Clios, Addies and other industry awards. Originally from Philadelphia and New York, Hoffmann's composing talent ranges from classical orchestration to jazz fusion to whatever you can think of. Michael owns MH Productions, Inc., a post-production recording studio in Fort Lauderdale.
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, Boy Gets Girl and Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby 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, Boy Gets Girl, James Joyce's The Dead and Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby. 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.
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