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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 The Diary of Anne Frank. 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.
TERRENCE McNALLY (Playwright) had his first play produced in 1964 at the age of 25. Several early comedies such as Next and The Ritz won McNally praise. In 1993, he won the Tony Award for best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman. He also collaborated on The Rink and Ragtime. McNally's other plays include Love! Valor! Compassion! and Master Class, a character study of legendary opera soprano Maria Callas (1996 Tony Award for Best Play). In 1997, McNally stirred up a storm of controversy with Corpus Christi, a modern day story of Jesus in which he and his disciples are homosexuals. In addition to four Tony Awards, McNally has received the Pulitzer Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, Lucille Lortel Award, Hull-Warriner Award and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Dramatists guild Council since 1970 and has served as vice-president since 1981. McNally is considered one of the leading American dramatists still writing today.
TIM CONNELLY (Set Design) returns to GableStage where he designed the sets for Chinese Coffee and Tabletop. 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 his time sailing and fishing.
MIKE MARTIN (Lighting Design) has worked at Miami-Dade College since 1975, first as technical director and lighting designer and then as scenic designer and teacher. He has been a member of United Scenic Artists since 1979, and in addition to designing shows for the college, Mike has designed sets and lights for many theatres in South Florida. He designed the lighting for the inaugural production of Cyrano at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, and received a Carbonell award for lighting The Shadow Box there, directed by Joe Adler. Mike has received two other Carbonell nominations for lighting - Shenandoah at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre, and Strange Snow at GableStage, where he has also designed lights for Simpatico, The Dead, and Nixon's Nixon. Aside from theatre work and teaching Mike has been actively involved in Scouting for the last fourteen years and currently serves as a Tiger Coach for seven-year-olds at Pack 7. His youngest son, Nathaniel, has just earned his Eagle rank.
MICHAEL J. HOFFMANN (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. He has designed and written music for GableStage productions, most recently for The Diary of Anne Frank. Michael owns MH Productions, Inc., a post-production recording studio in Fort Lauderdale.
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.
MICHELLE WARGACKI (Stage Manager) recently made her Florida debut with Pageant at the Cuillo Centre for the Arts in West Palm Beach. She has spent the past four seasons stage managing in her native New Jersey regional circuit, where she has contributed to more than twenty productions. Favorites include: The Women, Still Life, How I Learned to Drive, The All Night Strut, Uncommon Women and Others, Sylvia, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Below the Belt and the NJ Premier of The Smell of the Kill. Michelle also served as the Director of Education for the NJ Women's Theatre Company and worked extensively as a Teaching Artist in NJ and NYC, including work with the nationally recognized Write on the Edge residency program at Manhattan Theatre Club in NYC. Michelle is a graduate of New York University.
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