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JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director) is now in his eleventh season at GableStage, where Adding Machine is his 60th 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 30 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. He was awarded the 2008 Arts and Entertainment Community Service Award, presented by the South Florida International Press Club, and this year he was honored to receive the Truth Award from the Human Services Coalition. Adler studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and graduated from the Film Department at NYU.
JOSH SCHMIDT (Composer/Co-Liberettist) is a Milwaukee-based composer/sound designer. His work has been featured at Steppenwold Theatre Company, Writers' Theatre In Glencoe, Next Theatre, Northlight Theatre and Seanachai Theatre Company (Chicago, Alley Theatre (Houston, Kennedy Center and Ford's Theatre (Washington DC), The Public Theater (associate design, Builders Association (associate design), Jean Cocteau Rep and Genesius Theatre Guild (NYC), Bard College (NY), South Coast Repertory (CA), American Players Theatre (Spring Green), Madison Red and UW Madison (Madison), Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Renaissance Theaterworks, Bialystock and Bloom, Netxt Act Theatre, Theatre X, In Tandem, Wild Space Dance Company and US Milwaukee Theatre and Dance (Milwaukee). He is a recipient of the 2003-2005 NEA/TCG Career Development Program Award and was named one of nine emerging designers in Entertainment Design magazine in 2004. He has been nominated for four Joseph Jefferson Awards and received two for his composition/sound design work in Chicago.
JASON LOEWITH (Co-Librettist) is a Jeff and After Dark award-winning producer, director and writer. As Artistic Director of Chicago's Next Theatre Company since 2002, he has directed the area premieres of plays by John Patrick Shanley, Christopher Durang, Lynn Nottage, Paula Vogel and many others. Prior to the Next, he spent two years as Artistic Administrator at Chicago's Court Theatre and five years as General Manager/Dramaturg at Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company. He serves on advisory boards for New York's Red Bull Theater and Synapse Productions and Philadelphia's Flashpoint Theatre. NYC directing credits include his own play Bert Brecht Before the House Un-American Activities Committee for HERE, the New York International Fringe Festival and workshops of his own adaptations at CSC. A contributor to both local and national magazines, Jason is putting the finishing touches on The Director's Voice 2, a series of interviews with American directors, to be published by Theatre Communications Group.
ERIC ALSFORD (Musical Direction) is pleased to be doing his first production with GableStage. Eric graduated from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He has played for the Off-Broadway production of That's Life and on the national tours of Mamma Mia and Nunsense. Locally, Eric has musical directed for Caldwell Theatre, New Vista Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Parker Playhouse, among others. Eric won the Carbonell Award for Best Musical Direction of Floyd Collins and Aida, both at Actors' Playhouse. Regionally, he has musical directed for North Shore Music Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre Chicago, Florida Rep, Ogunquit Playhouse, Artpark, Arkansas Rep, Beef and Boards and Solano Rep. Eric is the composer of several children's musicals produced throughout South Florida, and the composer of the score for the independent film, Lost Everything.
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, Blackbird, The Accomplices and Betrayed. 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.
RON HEADRICK (Choreographer) has directed and/or choreographed more than 250 musicals in stock and regional theaters. He appeared on Broadway in Funny Girl and Wonderful Town and produced major night club shows in Las Vegas, Mexico City and Atlantic City as well as all over the Caribbean. For years he produced shows for the Fountainbleau, Eden Roc and other major Miami Beach Hotels. In 1995, he journeyed to Russia, where he taught American Musical Theater and produced a piece of Chekov's The Three Sisters, covered by both Moscow and Kiev television. His local credits include Hollywood Playhouse, Shores Theater, Royal Palm Dinner Theater and Gablestage. He recently received the Film Recording Entertainment Council (FREC) Special Acknowledgement 2006 Award for his contribution to the early development of the Miami Beach Tourist and Entertainment Industry. In the summer, he is a Director at the prestigious Frenchwoods Festival of the Performing Arts in New York, training hundreds of serious theater students from all over the world. Ron has been instrumental in selecting New World School of the Arts students for scholarships to that camp, amounting to more than $250,000. He has been on the faculty at New World since 1990. He is honored to be working with Joe Adler again, having choreographed the highly successful Dirty Blond at GableStage.
JEFF QUINN (Lighting Design) is proud to begin his 11th season at GableStage, where his credits include lighting design for Betrayed, Shining City, The Little Dog Laughed, The Goat (Carbonell Award), The Diary of Anne Frank and Boy Gets Girl (both Curtain Up Awards). He designed scenery and lighting for Frozen (Curtain Up & Carbonell Awards). Jeff has also designed for the Fulton Opera House, Pennsylvania Festival Theatre, Walt Disney Enterprises and Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Lines. His South Florida work includes Summer Shorts for City Theatre, The Seafarer (Mosaic Theatre), 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) and Nefertitti, The Musical (Parker Playhouse). He designed scenery and lighting for the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra productions of Fidelio and The Inner Ear, 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 Design USA exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial 2007 International Exhibition of Scenography. 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.
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, The Accomplices, Shining City and Betrayed. A former folk art gallery owner, Claire resides in Coconut Grove with her husband.
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.
KRISTEN PIESKI (Stage Manager) is ecstatic - to say the very least - to be stage managing once again. She graduated from Kent State University's Honors College with a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology. During her time there, she stage managed a plethora of shows including Children of Eden, Anything Goes, On The Verge and Six Characters in Search of an Author. She also worked at Porthouse Theatre in Ohio for four glorious seasons, beginning as a stage management intern and most recently served as the Equity Production Stage Manager for the 2007 season. Her stage management credits from Porthouse include Sweet Charity, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Brigadoon, A Chorus Line, Oklahoma!, The Importance of Being Earnest, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Once On This Island. Other stage management credits include Tick, Tick... BOOM! and Oliver for The Arundel Barn Playhouse in Maine. She would like to thank Joe for giving her this wonderful opportunity. Much love to her amazing family and to her two leading ladies, Maria and Lucy!
Carlos Rodriguez (Technical Director)
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