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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 43 Carbonell Awards and 159 Carbonell Nominations. He has been nominated twenty-two times (fifteen 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, Edward Albee's The Goat, Frozen, The Pillowman, Lieutenant of Inishmore, and Speed-the-Plow (GableStage), and twice for Best Director of a Musical: James Joyce's The Dead 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 (CurtainUp, SunPost, NewTimes) 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. In 2008 he was presented the Arts and Entertainment Community Service Award by the South Florida International Press Club and the Truth Award from the Human Services Coalition. He received a Silver Palm Award in 2009 for his "Outstanding Support of the South Florida Theatre Community, the Theatre League and the Theatre Festival, as well as his Consistent Outstanding Work at GableStage and his Commitment to an Educational Outreach Program in Miami-Dade County". Adler studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and graduated from the Film Department at NYU.
DAVID BRANDES (Playwright) A Canadian from the Ottawa Valley whose mother tongue is Yiddish, Brandes started off as a journalist. The allure of film brought him to the UCLA Film School and Los Angeles. Mr. Brandes is the award winning writer and producer of the film version of The Quarrel. He is the executive producer and co-creator of the TV series My Life As A Dog on Showtime. He has written for the "Fraggle Rock" TV series and was the writer of Roger Corman's all time best selling video release, "The Dirt Bike Kid". His film, American Hero is currently in post-production. Brandes won the Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival, was nominated for a Canadian Academy Award (Genie) for best adapted screenplay, and the Ahad Ha'am Award 'for enriching Jewish culture'. Brandes lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.
JOSEPH TELUSHKIN (Playwright) An ordained rabbi, he is the author of Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History. His most recent book, Biblical Literacy: The Most Important People, Events and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible, was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. His other books include Words That Hurt, Words That Heal and Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish jokes Say About the Jews. Rabbi Telushkin's novel An Eye for an Eye became the basis for four episodes of the TV show The Practice. Rabbi Telushkin lives in New York with his wife and four children.
LYLE BASKIN (Set Design) moved to the NC mountains five years ago but continues to work as a Scenic Designer in S. 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, Coconut Grove Playhouse), and at GableStage, Lieutenant of Inishmore, Full Gallop, Killer Joe, A Lesson Before Dying, Boy Gets Girl and Misery (all Carbonell nominations), Citizen Tom Paine, Closer, Of Mice and Men, Skylight, Psychopathia Sexualis, as well as Brooklyn Boy, Fat Pig, The Little Dog Laughed, Blackbird, The Accomplices, Betrayed, Adding Machine and Reasons To Be Pretty. Lyle's 30-year career 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.
JEFF QUINN (Lighting Design) was recently honored with Carbonell best lighting design nominations for his work on our production of No Child, and for Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them at Mosaic Theatre. His many GableStage credits include lighting design for Reasons to be Pretty, Farragut North, Blasted, The Goat (Carbonell Award), The Diary of Anne Frank and Boy Gets Girl (Curtain Up Awards), and scenic and lighting design for Frozen (CurtainUp & Carbonell Awards). Elsewhere in South Florida, Jeff designed White Christmas (Actors' Playhouse), Faith Healer (New World Repertory Company), Summer Shorts 2008 and 2009 (City Theatre), 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 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 23 productions at GableStage, including The Pillowman (Carbonell Award), Fahrenheit 451 (Carbonell Nomination) and 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.
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 DramaLogue 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 eleventh 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: 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 Drew, Ma, Moo, and Maria!
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