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JOSEPH ADLER (Producing Artistic Director) is now in his eleventh season at GableStage, where New Century is his 63rd 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 nine 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, Lieutenant of Inishmore and Adding Machine (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.
PAUL RUDNICK (Playwright) has been produced both on and off- Broadway and around the world. His plays include The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told; I Hate Hamlet and Jeffrey for which he won an Obie, an Outer Critics Circle Award and the John Gassner Playwriting Award. His novels are Social Disease and I'll Take It, both published by Knopf. His articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New York Times. His screenplays include Addams Family Values, the screen adaptation of Jeffrey and In & Out.
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, In the Continuum, Shining City, November, Defiance and No Child... 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 (2009 Carbonell Award nominee), 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 has designed scenery as well as lighting for several of our productions, including Frozen (Curtain Up & Carbonell Awards). Jeff's South Florida work also includes Summer Shorts for City Theatre, The Seafarer (Mosaic Theatre, nominee 2009 Carbonell Award)), 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 Nefertiti, 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 Español Rosita Segovia, the Gold-Diggers and the Miami Christmas Spectacular. 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 com-posed original music for 20 productions at GableStage, including The Pillowman (Carbonell Award), Fahrenheit 451 (Carbonell Nomination) and last season's The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Carbonell Nomination). 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 Boca Raton Symphonia. He also serves as the professor of Bassoon at Florida International University. 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. Matt would like to thank Mom and Pop for their love and unconditional support over the years, and Luann for being a constant source of inspiration, laughter and warmth across the miles.
ELLIS TILLMAN (Costume Design) is thrilled to be designing for GableStage. Lieutenant of Inishmore (Carbonell Nomination) and The Adding Machine are two of his 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) graduated from Kent State University's Honors College with a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology, where she stage managed 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 ending as the Equity Production Stage Manager for the 2007 season - 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. This is now her fourth show stage managing at GableStage. She sends her love to her family, Maria, and Lucy Loo.
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