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JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director) is now in his tenth season at GableStage. The Accomplices is his 56th consecutive production. 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. Since Adler became Producing Artistic Director, GableStage has been the recipient of 27 Carbonell Awards and 135 Carbonell Nominations. He has been nominated nineteen times (twelve at GableStage) and eight 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, The Pillowman and Lieutenant of Inishmore (GableStage). Adler 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 has received many Best Director awards (Curtain Up, SunPost, New Times) and a Remy Award from the Theatre League of South Florida, as well as The Heart of the Arts Award presented by the New World School of the Arts. This year, he was awarded the 2008 Arts and Entertainment Community Service Award, presented by the South Florida International Press Club. Adler studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and graduated from the Film Department at NYU.
BERNARD WEINRAUB (Playwright) grew up in New York, attended City College of New York and served in the U.S. Army for two years before joining The New York Times. He remained on The Times for 30 years, working in New York, Vietnam, India, London, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Mr. Weinraub's first play, The Accomplices, won the Stellar Network award in 2006, which led to a production last year by The New Group in New York. He recently completed his second play, Above the Fold, which is scheduled to be produced in Los Angeles later this year.
LYLE BASKIN (Set Design) moved to the North Carolina mountains three years ago but continues to work as a Scenic Designer in South Florida. His collaboration with Director Joseph Adler began three decades ago. They include designs for 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, Fat Pig, Lieutenant of Inishmore (Carbonell Nomination), The Little Dog Laughed and Blackbird. 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. Lyle is currently Scenic Designer for the Blowing Rock Stage Company in North Carolina.
JEFF QUINN (Lighting Design) is in his 10th season at GableStage, where his credits include lighting design for The Little Dog Laughed, Lieutenant of Inishmore (Carbonell nomination), Romance, Fat Pig (Carbonell Nomination), Golda's Balcony, Diary of Anne Frank and Boy Gets Girl (both Curtain Up Awards) and The Goat (Carbonell Award). He designed scenery and lighting for Frozen (Curtain Up & Carbonell Awards), The Blue Room, The Real Thing, The Play About the Baby and The Shape of Things. Jeff has designed for the Fulton Opera House, Pennsylvania Festival Theatre, Walt Disney Enterprises and Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Lines. His South Florida work includes White Christmas (Actors' Playhouse), Faith Healer (New World Repertory Company), Angels in America (New Theatre and New World School of the Arts), Brooklyn Bridge (Playground Theatre), Talk Radio (Mosaic Theatre) and Nefertitti, The Musical (Parker Playhouse). Jeff designed scenery and lighting for Fidelio and The Inner Ear (Florida Philharmonic Orchestra), and has designed for the New World Symphony, Maximum Dance, Ballet Theatre of Miami, Momentum Dance Company, Ballet Espanol Rosita Segovia, the Gold-Diggers and the Miami Christmas Pageant. His work was included in the extraordinary Design USA exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial 2007 International Exhibition of Scenography, catalog available at www.usitt.org. Jeff is on the faculty at New World School of the Arts, and is a member of United Scenic Artists (Local 829, I.A.T.S.E.) and the US Institute for Theatre Technology. He is married to director Deborah Mello.
MATT COREY (Music/Sound) is proud to have designed sound and composed original music for each of the past 14 productions at GableStage, including The Pillowman (Carbonell Award), Fahrenheit 451 (Carbonell Nomination), and last season's The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Carbonell Nomination). At the Mosaic Theatre, Matt's sound design was most recently heard in Guest Artist and Talk Radio, for which he was awarded a Carbonell for Best Sound Design. Matt earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Bassoon Performance at the University of Miami, and is currently a member of the Florida Grand Opera orchestra. He can frequently be heard playing various woodwind instruments in the pit orchestra for touring Broadway productions, and is a proud member of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 655. By day, Matt is the Digital Production Manager at Insight for the Blind Studios in Fort Lauderdale, where he oversees all aspects of the production of 100 Library of Congress "Talking Book" titles each year, for the blind and physically handicapped. Many thanks to Mom, Pop, Dina and Caroline for the steady flow of inspiration, support and love.
ELLIS TILLMAN (Costume Designer) was the resident Costume Designer at the Coconut Grove Playhouse for twenty-five years, and is thrilled to now be designing for Gablestage and Actors' Playhouse. Lieutenant of Inishmore (Carbonell Nomination) and Smut are two of his recent favorites. Ellis was nominated for a Barrymore Award in Philadelphia for Enchanted April. He was awarded LA's DramaLogue for Bermuda Avenue Triangle with Bea Arthur and has three times won the Carbonell Award. He made his Broadway debut as costume designer for Urban Cowboy The Musical. Ellis 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) has been at GableStage for the last four 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, Golda's Balcony, Smut, Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Little Dog Laughed and Blackbird. A former folk art gallery owner, Claire resides in Coconut Grove with her husband.
Carlos Rodriguez (Technical Director)
Daniel Landon (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be in this capacity at GableStage, where he has contributed as Assistant Stage Manager and Production Assistant for several seasons. Recent credits include Blackbird, The Little Dog Laughed, In the Continuum, Smut, Golda's Balcony, Fahrenheit 451, Address Unknown and Brooklyn Boy. His acting credits include: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, My Fair Lady, Gypsy, La Cage Aux Folles, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Fiddler On The Roof, Elena Garcia's African Dance Ensemble and more. He has worked regionally at Actors' Playhouse, GableStage, Curtain Call Playhouse, Pembroke Pines Theatre, Cooper City Theatre, Hollywood Playhouse, He is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association. Daniel thanks Joe and Avi for inspiring him with a love for the arts and for his continued success. www.daniellandon.com
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