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JOSEPH ADLER (Producing Artistic Director) is now in his eleventh season at GableStage, where Defiance is his 61st 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.
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY (Playwright) served as a Flame Thrower Gunner in the United States Marine Corps From 1970-1972. He never went to Vietnam. He served primarily at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Plays: Doubt (Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award & Drama Desk Award for Best Play), Danny and The Deep Blue Sea, Four Dogs and a Bone, Psychopathia Sexualis and many more. Filmography includes Moonstruck, Joe Versus the Volcano, Alive, Congo and the screen version of Doubt.
TIM CONNELLY (Set Designreturns 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, In the Continuum, Shining City and November. 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) continues his 11th season at GableStage, where his credits include lighting design for Adding Machine, 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.
MATT COREY (Music/Sound) is proud to have designed sound and composed original music for 17 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.
CLAIRE SAVITT (Props) is in her seventh season with GableStage. She enjoys seeking the everyday as well as the unusual 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, Betrayed and Adding Machine. Claire feels fortunate to be a part of the "design team", where there is never a dull moment.
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.
Carlos Rodriguez (Technical Director)
KRISTEN PIESKI (Stage Manager) is excited to be returning to GableStage 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 was last seen being "obviously astute" for Adding Machine. Much love to her Loopy and MacDaddy!
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