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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, The Guys, The Shape of Things, Dirty Blonde and Tabletop. 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 (seven at GableStage) and four times won the Carbonell Award for Best Director - The Shadow Box (Coconut Grove Playhouse); The Killing of Sister George. (Players Theatre); A Lesson Before Dying and James Joyce's The Dead (GableStage). 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.
RICH SIMONE (Set Design) is thrilled to return to GableStage for his seventh production in three years. His past work here includes: This Is Our Youth, Tape, Adam Baum & the Jew Movie, Mindgame, Popcorn (which garnered him a Carbonell nomination and a Curtain Up award for Best Scenic Design), James Joyce's The Dead (for which he won the Carbonell) and Dirty Blonde. During the four years since his move from Key West to Miami, Rich has amassed an enviable body of work, a small sampling of which includes: The Legacy at New Theatre, Pump Boys and Dinettes at the Hollywood Playhouse, Winter Shorts and two seasons of Summer Shorts for City Theatre, That Sound You Hear at Fort Lauderdale Players, Bed and Breakfast for the Key West Theatre Festival. Rich also directed, designed and performed in the Miami Premiere of Pageant at the Shores Performing Arts Theatre, where he has recently been appointed Artistic Director. Rich thanks the entire South Florida Theatrical community for their continued support, and Jack for unerring patience.
JEFF QUINN (Lighting Design) is in his fifth season with GableStage. Our audiences have seen his lighting designs for many of our productions, including Closer, Killer Joe, Popcorn, Boy Gets Girl, and Dirty Blonde, and his scenic and lighting designs for Sideman, The Blue Room, The Real Thing, The Play About the Baby, The Shape of Things and Dirty Blonde. Elsewhere, he 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. His South Florida work in other theaters includes The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and Oliver! at Actors Playhouse, Little by Little at Coconut Grove Playhouse, Irma La Douce and Moon for the Misbegotten at Florida Repertory Theatre, Anything Goes at the Hirshfeld, Faith Healer for New World Repertory Company, HMS Pinafore and Sleuth for Florida Shakespeare Theatre, and Angels in America and Love! Valour! Compassion! for New Theatre. He designed the scenery and lighting for Fidelio and The Inner Ear with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, and has also designed for the FIU Music Festival, the New World Symphony, Freddick Bratcher and Company, Maximum Dance, Ballet Theatre of Miami, Momentum Dance Company, Ballet Espanol Rosita Segovia, Ballet Etudes, Ballet Blue Ridge, the Gold-Diggers, and the Miami Christmas Pageant. Mr. Quinn is a member of United Scenic Artists (Local 829, I.A.T.S.E.) and teaches at New World School of the Arts. Married to director Deborah Mello. They have six children, a granddaughter, and a dog.
MICHAEL J. HOFFMANN (Original Music) 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.
KARELLE LEVY (Costume Design) holds a BFA in Textile design from Rhode Island School of Design. Karelle has been costuming in Miami since 1997. She designed for Shoot, Portrait, Here In My Car, and Helluva Halloween at Mad Cat Productions, where she is resident costume designer. 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 also produced Plastered Techno Ballerina and Bag O Trix at the Light Box. Karelle's one-of-a-kind KRELwear knits are available at Chroma in Miami Beach.
DAN MOSES SCHREIER (Sound) has worked extensively in the theater as a composer and a sound designer. His sound design work on and off-Broadway includes Amour, the Broadway revival of Into The Woods directed by James Lapine, Topdog/Under-dog directed by George C Wolfe, Tony Kushner's Home-body/Kabul, Claudia Shear's Dirty Blonde, George C. Wolfe's Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk and Blade To The Heat, James Lapine's productions of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Golden Child, Adam Guettal and Tina Landau's Floyd Collins, John Leguizamo's Spic-O-Rama and for Richard Foreman: Pen-guin Touquet, Bathrobe, Don Juan and Film Is Evil:Radio Is Good. Dan has received a Drama Desk Award, two Drama Desk Award nominations, an Obie Award for sustained excellence, an Audelco Award, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
DANIEL LEVAIN (Stage Manager) is proud to be a part of such an exciting theatrical company. Past stage management credits for GableStage include Tabletop, Dirty Blonde, The Shape of Things, The Guys, 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) began his career in Buenos Aires where he acted as director, dancer and choreographer. In South Florida, he continued his active career in film television and theater, working, for The Hispanic Theater League, Area Stage, FLA/BRA, Lenny Miller Productions, Channel 23, International Hispanic Theater Festival and La Salle High School in as stage manager, technical director, coordinator and teacher. This is his fifth season as resident Technical Director at GableStage.
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