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JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director) continues his fifth season as Artistic Director of GableStage with this production. He previously 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, Adler has 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 Nixon's Nixon, Chinese Coffee and The Guys. Active in South Florida's film and theatre community for many years, Adler has directed hundreds of television commercials and industrial films, winning 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 fourteen nominations (most recently for Skylight, Closer, Killer Joe, Popcorn and The Blue Room at GableStage), and twice won the Carbonell Award for Best Director (The Shadow Box at Coconut Grove Playhouse and The Killing of Sister George at Players Theatre. 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.
NEIL LaBUTE (Playwright) received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre. Films include: In the Company of Men (New York Critics' Circle Award for Best First Feature, Filmmakers' Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty and Possession. Plays include: The Mercy Seat, written and to be directed by LaBute this fall in New York starring Sigourney Weaver and Liev Schrieber; The Distance From Here, written by LaBute, which ran at the Almeida Theater in London this Spring and will run in 2003 in New York; The Shape of Things which LaBute wrote and directed for London and New York in 2001; and bash: latter-day plays, which LaBute wrote and directed for New York and London in 1999. Other plays include Filthy Talk For Troubled Times, Lepers, Rounder, Sanguinarians and Sycophants and Ravages. Adaptations include: Dracula and Woyzeck. LaBute is also the author of several fictional pieces that have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and Playboy among others.
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, A Lesson Before Dying. and The Guys. 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.
DANIELA SCHWIMMER (Costume Design) has designed costumes for H.istory of America (Abridged), Simpatico, Skylight , Of Mice and Men, Full Gallop, Psychopathia Sexualis, Closer (for which she was a Carbonell nominee), 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.
MICHAEL J. HOFFMANN (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 Hispanos, 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.
DANIEL LEVAIN (Stage Manager) is proud to be a part of such an exciting theatrical company. Past stage management credits for GableStage include Chinese Coffee, 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.
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 fifth season as
resident Technical Director at GableStage.
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