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JOSEPH ADLER (Producing Artistic Director) is now in his twelfth 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 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.
BEAU WILLIMON (Playwright) had the world premiere of his play Farragut North at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York in November 2008. It recently had its West Coast premiere at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles and was included in the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, WV. Farragut North was nominated for two 2008 Outer Critics Circle Awards (Best New Play, John Gassner Award). His screen adaption of the play is currently in development at Warner Brothers. His play Lower Ninth premiered at the Flea Theater (New York) in February of 2008 after being produced at Arielle Tepper's 2007 Summer Play Festival. In 2006 Beau organized and participated in a collection of one-act plays dealing with the Middle-East crisis entitled The Middle East: In Pieces (Other writers included Israel Horowitz, Betty Shamieh, Kia Corthron and Leila Buck). Beau is a recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace Juilliard Playwriting Fellowship, two-time winner of the Lincoln Center Le Comte du Nouy Award, the Seymour Brick Memorial Playwriting Prize, winner of the 2005 Dayton Playhouse FutureFest, and was a 2008 Playwright-in-Residence at the Donmar Warehouse in London. He is currently working on commissions for Manhattan Theatre Club and the National Theatre of Great Britain. A resident of Brooklyn, Willimon holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in play-writing from Columbia University's School of the Arts.
SEAN McCLELLAND (Scenic Designer) Sean has designed 75+ shows here in South Florida going into his 8th Season. His work can be seen this season at Actors' Playhouse, Mosaic and here at GableStage. Along with designing, he is also working on putting together a collection of paintings. Sean is grateful and proud to have won the Carbonell Award for Best Scenic Design for 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 (yet working) Artist"! Visit symbiontscenic.carbonmade.com to see more of his work.
JEFF QUINN (Lighting Design) is pleased to join GableStage for a twelfth season. His credits include lighting design for New Century, Defiance, The Goat (Carbonell Award), The Diary of Anne Frank and Boy Gets Girl (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 (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 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.
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 ninth 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!
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