Who's Who . . . Backstage

JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director) is in his ninth 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, Miss Margarida's Way, This Is How It Goes, The Pillowman, Fahrenheit 451, Romance, Fat Pig and Golda's Balcony. 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 nineteen nominations (twelve at GableStage) and seven 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, Frozen and The Pillowman (GableStage). He 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". 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.

ALICE JAY (Playwright) Alice Jay's other plays include OVER THE LINE, FINISH LINE, and LINES IN THE SAND, which have been presented at the Odyssey Theatre and Third St. Theatre in Los Angeles, and at GableStage. LINES IN THE SAND was a finalist for the 1998 Paul Green Playwrights Prize sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network. Her poems have been widely published and honored, including three Pushcart Prize nominations. A new collection, WATERMELON MOON, is available at GableStage and online at www.puddinghouse.com. Endless gratitude to Joseph Adler for his enduring support and inspiration.

TIM CONNELLY (Set Design) returns to GableStage where he designed the sets for Chinese Coffee, Tabletop, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Ten Unknowns, 'Master Harold'... and the Boys, QED, Trumbo and The Syringa Tree. 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.

JOHN D. HALL (Lighting Designer) is currently Production Manager and Lighting Designer for Miami City Ballet where he just finished his 12th season. Past work with Gablestage includes, The Pillowman, ( Best Lighting Carbonell Nomination) Intimate Apparel, Misery, and Bug. Recent local work includes, The Clean House, for The Caldwell Theatre, and Voice of The Prairie for Palm Beach Dramaworks. John is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, and with his wife Shannon, has two sons, John and William.

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 "Talking Book" titles each year for the blind and physically handicapped. Most recently, Matt has been music and sound designer at GableStage for every production for the last 2 years. He received a Carbonell Award for Best Sound Designer for last season's The Pillowman at Gablestage. Matt would like to thank Mom, Pop, Hal, Adam, Dina, Zach, Rob, Dan, Joe, and the countless other talented people who he has come to rely on for their abundant talent and inspiration.

ELLIS TILLMAN (Costume Designer) most recently was the resident Costume Designer at the Coconut Grove Playhouse for the past twenty-five years. Of his one hundred designs, he marks the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia productions of The Constant Wife and Lost in Yonkers as two of his most fulfilling projects. He won L.A.'s Drama-Logue for Bermuda Avenue Triangle with Bea Arthur and has three times won the Carbonell Award. Mr. Tillman made his Broadway debut as costume designer for Urban Cowboy The Musical. Most recently, he designed the costumes for the Off-Broadway production of Confessions of a Mormon Boy and the national tour of Tuesdays with Morrie starring Harold Gould.

CLAIRE SAVITT (Props) is in her fifth season at GableStage. 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, Miss Margarida's Way, This Is How It Goes, The Pillowman, Romance, Fat Pig and Golda's Balcony. 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 successful runs of Address Unknown, Brooklyn Boy, 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.