Who's Who . . . Backstage

JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director) is now in his eighth season as Artistic Director of GableStage. 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, Tabletop, The Diary of Anne Frank, Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune, The Goat, What The Butler Saw, Ten Unknowns, 'Master Harold' ...and the boys, QED, Trumbo (in which he also performed), Frozen, Bug, Retreat From Moscow, The Syringa Tree, A Bad Friend, Misery, Brooklyn Boy, Address Unknown, Intimate Apparel and Miss Margarida's Way. 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 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). He received a Remy Award from the Theatre League of S. 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". Last month he was honored with the Heart of the Arts Award from New World School of the Arts. 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, Possession and The Shape of Things. Plays include bash: latter-day plays (1999), The Shape of Things (2001), The Distance From Here (2002), The Mercy Seat (fall 2002), Autobahn (2004) and Fat Pig (fall 2004). This Is How It Goes premiered at New York's Public Theater in 2005. In May that same year the play debuted at The Donmar Warehouse in London. LaBute is also the author of the short-story collection Seconds of Pleasure.

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), Cantorial (Hollywood Playhouse), Shadow Box (Carbonell winner at Coconut Grove Playhouse), and at GableStage, Skylight, Full Gallop (Carbonell nomination), Closer, Killer Joe (Carbonell nomination), Citizen Tom Paine, Of Mice and Men, Psychopathia Sexualis, Boy Gets Girl, A Lesson Before Dying (Carbonell nomination) Misery (Carbonell nomination), Brooklyn Boy and Intimate Apparel. 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 and Players State Theatre. He has also designed for Ring Theatre (UM), 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) is in his eighth season with GableStage. His lighting designs have been seen in many productions, including Address Unknown, Closer, The Blue Room, The Real Thing, The Play About the Baby, and an earlier Neil LaBute play, The Shape of Things. He also designed for The Goat (Carbonell Award), Killer Joe and The Diary of Anne Frank, Boy Gets Girl (all CurtainUp Awards), and received both CurtainUp and Carbonell Awards for his scenic and lighting designs for Frozen. Jeff has designed for the Fulton Opera House, Pennsylvania Festival Theatre, Walt Disney Enterprises, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Lines, Hilton Head Play-house and the Kayagum Theatre in Seoul, Korea. Other South Florida work includes The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and Oliver! (Actors Playhouse), Irma La Douce and Moon for the Misbegotten (Florida Repertory Theatre), Anything Goes (Hirshfeld), Faith Healer (New World Repertory Company), HMS Pinafore and Sleuth (Florida Shakespeare Theatre), Angels in America and Love! Valour! Compassion! (New Theatre), A Christmas Carol and Mastergate (B.R.I.T.T.), Brooklyn Bridge and The Beast (Playground Theatre for Young Audiences), 2.5 Minute Ride (Mosaic Theatre) and Nefertitti, The Musical (Parker Playhouse). He designed the scenery and lighting for Fidelio and The Inner Ear with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, and has designed for the FIU Music Festival, 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, AFL Dance Theatre, Gold-Diggers, and Miami Christmas Pageant. Mr. Quinn is a member of United Scenic Artists (Local 829, I.A.T.S.E.) and the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. He recently participated in the World Stage Design 2005 exhibit in Toronto. Jeff is also a member of the faculty at New World School of the Arts, and married to director Deborah Mello.

MATT COREY (Sound/Music) earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degree 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 &34;Talking Book" titles each year for the blind and physically handicapped. Matt's most recent sound design/music credits are Brooklyn Boy, Address Unknown and Intimate Apparel here at GableStage. Thanks and love to Mom, Pop, Dina, and Caroline.

ANANDA KEATOR (Costumes) is thrilled to be given her first opportunity at GableStage and excited to once more work with Beth McIntosh, with whom she enjoys toiling at Promethean Theater. Past credits include Houseguest for Juggernaut, TYA designer for Actors' Playhouse and waking up this morning. Ananda would like to thank Joseph Adler for giving her this chance and her family for giving her this life.

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, Misery, Brooklyn Boy, Address Unknown Intimate Apparel and Miss Margarida's Way. A former folk art gallery owner, Claire resides in Coconut Grove with her husband.

MICHAEL JOHN CARROLL (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be continuing his third season with GableStage after recently completing the successful runs of Miss Margarida's Way, Intimate Apparel, Address Unknown, Brooklyn Boy, Misery, A Bad Friend, The Syringa Tree, The Retreat From Moscow (Carbonell Nominee - Best Play), Bug, Frozen (Carbonell Award Winner - Best Play), Trumbo, QED and 'Master Harold' ...and the boys. Michael graduated from Barry University in 2001 with a BFA in Acting, but found the chance to stage manage shows such as Little Shop of Horrors and Hello Dolly before graduating. After contributing to a dozen productions at Actors' Playhouse and the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Michael went from backstage to the booth again as the stage manager for plays at the Hollywood Playhouse, Broward Stage Door Theatre, and the Miami premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Level Nightclub on Miami Beach. 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.