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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, Edward Albee's The Play About the
Baby, A Lesson Before Dying and Nixon's Nixon.
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 eleven nominations (most recently for Skylight, Closer,
Killer Joe, Popcorn and The Blue Room at GableStage), and twice won the Carbonell
Award for Best Director. He also received a Remy Award from the Theatre League of South Florida, and
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 NYU.
IRA LEWIS (Playwright) has written 6 full-length plays. His first play, The Sponsor was produced off-Broadway and toured with Eli Wallach and E.G. Marshall. Every Place is Newark was presented at The Aspen Playwrights Conference and then Off-Broadway, and received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Chinese Coffee was first presented at The Aspen Playwrights Conference, in New York by The Actors Studio, of which Lewis is a member. Subsequently, it was produced at the Stamford Center for The Arts, in Stamford, CT, starring Al Pacino and Ben Gazarra, and then on Broadway starring Pacino and Charles Cioffi. It was recently made into a film starring Al Pacino and Jerry Orbach with a screenplay written by Lewis. Pearlfield was loosely inspired by events in the last months in the life of famed theatre director and critic, Harold Clurman. Jose Ferrer starred in and directed it for the Ensemble Theatre of Florida. Gross Points has been described as "malicious comedy" about an egomaniacal motion picture star. Lewis' most recent play, Frank's Will, is the story of a writer and an egomaniacal motion picture star.
TIM CONNELLY (Set Design) is happy to design his first set for GableStage. Tim hails from Kentucky, and has lived and worked in South Florida for 20 years. He owns and operates the Charles T. Studio, designing and building sets for the film and commercial industry. Among Tim's finest accomplishments are his three children, Justin, Jessica, and Ryan. Between raising kids and working. Tim fills in his time sailing and fishing.
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, Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby and A Lesson Before Dying 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 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. He designed the music and sound for A Lesson Before Dying at GableStage. Michael owns MH Productions, Inc., a post-production recording studio in Fort Lauderdale.
DANIEL LEVAIN (Stage Manager) is proud to be a part of such an exciting theatrical company. Past stage management credits for GableStage include Nixon's Nixon, A Lesson before Dying, Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby, James Joyce's The Dead, Boy Gets Girl, Mindgame, The Blue Room, Citizen Tom Paine, and Adam Baum and the Jew Movie. Daniel came to GableStage by way of Kansas, where he worked both on and off stage in various capacities and venues. Daniel would like to extend his profound gratitude to Joseph Adler for the opportunities he has provided, and to his family and friends for their unconditional support.
KARELLE LEVY (Costume Design)
holds a B.F.A. in Textile design from Rhode Island School of Design. Karelle band has been costuming in Miami since 1997, recently becoming the resident costume designer for Mad Cat Productions. She has designed several shows, including Shoot, Portrait, Here In My Car, and Helluva Halloween (Mad Cat Productions), NE 2nd Avenue (Teo Castellanos), Anatomy of Desire, Xochitl, The Moment Prior (Helena Thevenot, Butoh), La Scala di Seta, The Maid and The Thief. (Florida Grand Opera YA). She recently produced Plastered Techno Ballerina and Bag O Trix at the Light Box. Karelle's one-of-a-kind knits KRELwear are currently on sale at Chroma in Miami Beach.
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.
DANIELLE GOODMAN (Assistant Stage Manager) is pleased to be assisting in her third production
at GableStage, following Nixon's Nixon and A Lesson Before Dying. A recent
arrival in Miami, she did her professional theatre training in London, at Rose Bruford College of Speech
and Drama. Danielle is also a writer and editor.
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