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JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director) is now in his tenth season at GableStage. Shining City is his 57th 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.
CONOR MCPHERSON (Playwright) was born in Dublin in 1971. He attended the University College in Dublin where he began to write and direct. His plays include Rum & Vodka, The Good Thief, This Lime Tree Bower, St. Nicholas, The Weir (Olivier Award, Best Play), Dublin Carol, Port Authority, Shining City (Tony Award nomination, Best Play) and The Seafarer (Tony Award nomination, Best Play). Film work includes I Went Down, Saltwater, Samuel Beckett's Endgame and The Actors. Other awards include the George Devine Award; Critics' Circle Award; Evening Standard Award; Meyer Whitworth Award; Stewart Parker Award; two Irish Film & Television Academy Best Screenplay Awards; CICAE Best Film Award, Berlin Film Festival (Saltwater); Best Film and Best Screenplay Awards, San Sebastian Film Festival (I Went Down).
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, The Syringa Tree, Smut and In the Continuum. 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.
JEFF QUINN (Lighting Design) is in his 10th season at GableStage, where his credits include lighting design for The Accomplices, Blackbird, 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 S. 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 15 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 Design) 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 Drama-Logue 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, Blackbird and The Accomplices 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 stage managing at GableStage, where he has contributed as Assistant Stage Manager and Production Assistant for several seasons. Recent credits include The Accomplices, 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 GableStage, New Vista Theatre, Actors' Playhouse, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Curtain Call Playhouse, Pembroke Pines Theatre, Cooper City Theatre and 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. |
