|
JOSEPH ADLER (Producing Artistic Director) is now in his eleventh season at GableStage. 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 38 Carbonell Awards and 148 Carbonell Nominations. He has been nominated twenty times (thirteen 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.
DAVID MAMET (Playwright) was born in Chicago in 1947. He studied at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York. He has taught at Goddard College, the Yale Drama School and New York University and lectures at New York's Atlantic Theater Company, of which he is a founding member. He is the author of the plays The Cryptogram, Oleanna, Speed-The-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, Romance, November and Sexual Perversity In Chicago. He has also written screenplays for such films as House Of Games and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict, as well as The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy and Wag The Dog. His plays have won the Pulitzer Prize and the Obie Award.
SEAN MCCLELLAND (Set Design) is intrigued and delighted to be working with Joe at Gablestage for his first production! Sean has designed 70+ shows here in South Florida finishing up his 6th Season. Theatres include Mosaic, Actor's Playhouse, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Florida Rep, Gulfshore Playhouse, Broward StageDoor, Mad Cat, New Theatre, and the Delray Beach Playhouse. Sean is grateful and proud to have won the Carbonell Award for Best Scenic Design: The Seafarer this past season at the Mosaic. He would like to thank Joe and the GableStage team for the collective collaboration. Mostly he would like to thank his Grandmother for her continued Love and support over the years for the family's "Starving Artist"! Visit symbiontscenic.carbonmade.com to see more of his work.
OMAR MARTOS (Lighting Design) is excited to be returning to work at GableStage, this time as lighting designer. Omar has designed the lighting for numerous operas, plays, musicals and ice shows. His previous work includes operas Paolo e Francesca, The Mikado, The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote), and Small Change for the University of Miami Opera. West Side Story, HAIR the Musical, Closer and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for Quantum at the University of Miami. Recent productions include The Brig and The Pillars of the Community at New World School of the Arts. Omar has also done some work with Walt Disney World, AEG Ice shows, Miami-Dade County Fair and Estefan Enterprises. Omar graduated from Florida International University and is a pilot when he is not working. He wishes to thank Joseph Adler for this wonderful opportunity and Carlos Rodriguez for all the hard work he does for the theater.
MATT COREY (Music/Sound) is proud to have designed sound and composed original music for 21 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) is excited to be returning to GableStage for her seventh production. She graduated from Kent State University's Honors College with a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology. While 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 ending 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. Kristen made her South Florida debut as the "obviously astute" stage manager for the infamous Adding Machine and hasn't looked back since. She sends her love to Dad-Drew, Ma, Moo, and Maria!
|
