Who's Who . . . Backstage

JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director) is starting his eighth season as Producing Artistic Director. Adler previously directed at many South Florida Theatres--including Coconut Grove Playhouse, New Theatre, Area Stage, Hollywood Boulevard Theatre, Players Theatre, Ruth Foreman Theatre, Florida Shakespeare Theatre, City Theatre, Hollywood Playhouse and Shores Performing Arts. Active in South Florida's film and theatre community for many years, he 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 eighteen nominations (eleven at GableStage) and six 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, James Joyce's The Dead, Edward Albee's The Goat and Frozen (GableStage). This year GableStage received 23 Carbonell Nominations-and won six of the most important awards, including Best Play, Best Actor and Best Actress--all for Frozen. He also received a Remy Award from the Theatre League of South Florida and was awarded the prestigious George Abbott Award for "significant contributions to the artistic life and cultural development of greater Miami, Fort Lauderdale and the Palm Beaches." This year, he was the recipient of The Heart of the Arts Award presented by the New World School of the Arts. Adler studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and graduated from the Film Department at NYU.

DONALD MARGULIES (Playwright), Plays include Dinner with Friends (2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Outer Critics, Lucille Lortel and Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Awards, Drama Desk nominee); Sight Unseen - South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club/Orpheum Theatre 1992; Manhattan Theatre Club/Biltmore Theatre, 2004 (Obie Award, Hull-Warriner Award, Drama Desk nominee, Pulitzer Prize finalist); Two Days - Long Wharf Theater; God of Vengeance (based on Sholem Asch's 1906 classic) - Williamstown Theatre Festival, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle; Collected Stories - HB Studio, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory (Drama Critics Circle Award, LA Ovation Award, Drama Desk nominee, Dramatists Guild and Hull-Warriner finalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist); The Model Apartment - Primary Stages (Obie Award, Drama Desk nominee, Dramatists Guild and Hull-Warriner finalist); The Loman Family Picnic - Manhattan Theatre Club (Drama Desk nominee); What's Wrong With This Picture? - Manhattan Theatre Club, Jewish Rep, Brooks Atkinson Theatre; Found a Peanut - New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater; Broken Sleep: Three Plays - Williamstown Theatre Festival; July 7, 1994 - Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival; Pitching to the Star - West Bank Café. Margulies received the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a Playwright. He is an Adjunct Professor at Yale University and a Council Member of Dramatists Guild of America. Brooklyn Boy is dedicated to Herb Gardner. "

LYLE BASKIN (Set Design) after moving to the North Carolina mountains three years ago, continues to work as a Scenic Designer in South Florida. Lyle's previous designs with Director Joseph Adler include The Killing of Sister George (Players Theatre), Cantatorial (Hollywood Playhouse), Shadow Box (Carbonell Winner at Coconut Grove Playhouse), and at GableStage, Skylight, Full Gallop (Carbonell nomination), Closer, Killer Joe, Boy Gets Girl, A Lesson Before Dying and Misery. Lyle's 30-year career also includes set designs 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. He has also designed for Ring Theatre (U.M.), New World School of the Arts, Miami-Dade Community College, Bloomsburg Theatre in Pennsylvania, Corning Summer Theatre, and Ft. Lauderdale Presbyterian Church. In NC, he is currently Scenic Designer for the Blowing Rock Stage Company.

JEFF QUINN (Lighting Design) is in his eighth season with GableStage. Our audiences have seen his lighting designs for many productions, including Retreat From Moscow, The Diary of Anne Frank, Boy gets Girl [Curtain Up Awards], Closer, Killer Joe and The Goat [Carbonell Award], and his scenic and lighting designs for Frozen [Curtain Up Award], The Blue Room, The Real Thing, The Play About the Baby, and The Shape of Things. Elsewhere, Jeff 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, 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, Angels in America and Love! Valour! Compassion! for New Theatre, A Christmas Carol and Mastergate at B.R.I.T.T., Brooklyn Bridge for the Playground Theatre for Young Audiences, and Nefertitti, The Musical, at the Parker Playhouse. 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, Duende Ballet Espanol, 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 the US Institute for Theatre Technology, where he recently participated in the World Stage Design 2005 exhibit. Jeff is also a member of the faculty at New World School of the Arts, the spouse of director Deborah Mello, the father of six, and the grandfather of one. Always looking for exciting creative projects.

MATT COREY (Sound/Music) earned both his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Bassoon Performance at the University of Miami, and currently plays in the pit orchestra for the Florida Grand Opera. By day, Matt is the Digital Production Manager at Insight for the Blind Studios in Fort Lauderdale, an organization that produces 100 "Talking Book" titles each year for the blind and physically handicapped. Matt would like to thank Zach Ziskin, Chuck Bergeron, and Hal Schaefer for their musical contributions to Brooklyn Boy, and also his parents and Dina for their incredible support.

ERIN AMICO (Costumes) is thrilled to be returning to GableStage as costume designer. Her previous work in the region and here at Gablestage includes A Bad Friend and Misery. Other local work includes Jacques Brel, Seascape and Berlin to Broadway at Palm Beach Dramaworks; Beguiled Again, Puttin' on the Ritz, Below the Belt and Cabaret Verboten at Florida Stage. She also designed the premier production of Sophie Tucker, Last of the Red Hot Mamas at the Kravis Center. Erin is a life long resident of South Florida currently living in Deerfield Beach and raising her two children Dante 7 and Bridget, 5 with her husband Michael.

MICHAEL JOHN CARROLL (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be continuing his third season with GableStage after recently completing successful runs of Misery, A Bad Friend, The Syringa Tree, The Retreat From Moscow, Bug, Frozen, Trumbo, QED and 'Master Harold'...and the boys. Michael graduated from Barry University in 2001, and though he received his BFA in Acting, he also stage managed their productions of Little Shop of Horrors and Hello Dolly. He subsequently contributed to a dozen productions at Actors' Playhouse and the Coconut Grove Playhouse, and then went from backstage to the booth again as Stage Manager for the Hollywood Playhouse and the Broward Stage Door Theatre. Michael also stage managed the Miami premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Level Nightclub on Miami Beach. He is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and the Theatre League of South Florida. Michael's short list of inspirations include Jeff Buckley, Michel Gondry, and Mom.

CLAIRE SAVITT (Props) has been at GableStage for the last three seasons. She delights especially in finding the items that "play hard to get". Claire has worked on a number of plays, including A Lesson Before Dying, James Joyce's The Dead, Dirty Blonde, The Shape of Things, Nixon's Nixon, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Goat, What the Butler Saw, Ten Unknowns, 'Master Harold'...and the boys, QED, Frozen, Bug, Retreat from Moscow, A Bad Friend and Misery. A former folk art gallery owner, Claire resides in Coconut Grove with her husband.