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JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Artistic Director of GableStage) has directed on many local
stages, including Coconut Grove Playhouse, New Theatre, Area Stage, Hollywood Boulevard Theatre, Players
Theatre, Ruth Foreman Theatre, Florida Shakespeare Theatre, City Theatre (Summer Shorts),
Hollywood Playhouse and Shores Performing Arts. Active in South
Florida's film and
theatre community for many years, Adler has directed hundreds of innovative television commercials and
industrial films. His work has won 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. He has received seven nominations (most recently for Skylight at
GableStage), twice won the Carbonell Award for Best Director from the South Florida Entertainment Writers
Association and was given a Remy Award from the Theatre League for "Outstanding Contributions to South
Florida Theatre." Adler studied Drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and graduated
from the Film Department at New York University.
DAVID HARE (Playwright) was born in Sussex, England in 1947. His first play, Slag,
was produced in 1970. He has written eighteen plays for the stage and seven original scripts for film and
television. Since Plenty in 1978, the Royal National Theatre in Britain has presented eleven
of his plays. A writer of social themes, Hare has created some of the most actable roles in the modern
theatre. He has many times won awards for the Best Play and Best TV Film of the year in Britain and the
U.S.
Film scripts include Plenty, Damage, The Secret Rapture, and Wetherby (Golden
Bear at Berlin-Best Film). He also directed a film of Wallace Shawn's, The Designated Mourner,
starring Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson. His play, The Judas Kiss, was on Broadway last
year starring Liam Neeson. Remarkably, Hare will have three plays on Broadway this season: The Blue
Room (currently running) starring Nicole Kidman; Amy's View starring Judi Dench; and
Via Dolorosa in which he also stars.
LYLE BASKIN (Scenic Design) has designed sets for Coconut Playhouse, Burt Reynolds Dinner
Theatre, Area Stage, New Theatre, Acme Theatre, Hollywood Playhouse, Players State Theatre and Florida
Shakespeare - for plays including Streamers, Hamlet, The Elephant Man, The Apple Tree, One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Long Day's Journey Into Night. He has designed seven
previous shows with Director Joseph Adler; Killing of Sister George (Players Theatre),
Cantorial (Hollywood Playhouse), Shadow Box (Coconut Grove Playhouse) and here
at GableStage, Skylight, Of Mice and Men, Full Gallop (Carbonell nomination for Best Set
Design), Psychopathia Sexualis, Closer and Killer Joe. He has also designed for
Ring Theatre (U.of M.), New World School of the Arts, Miami-Dade Community College, Bloomsberg Theatre in
Pennsylvania, Corning Summer Theatre, and in Ft. Lauderdale Presbyterian Church. For the past seven years,
Lyle has worked in the special events industry and is currently Creative Director at M.E. Productions in
Pembroke Park. Lyle lives with his wife and son in Coral Gables.
JEFF QUINN (Scenic/Lighting Design) has designed for the Fulton Opera House, Pennsylvania
Festival Theatre, Walt Disney Enterprises, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Hilton
Head Playhouse and the Kayagum Theatre in Seoul, Korea. Our audiences have seen his work in lighting for
this season's Closer, Killer Joe, This is Our Youth and Arms and the Man.
Other South Florida work includes The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and
Steel Pier at Actors' Playhouse, Little by Little at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,
Irma La Douce and The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 at Florida Repertory
Theatre, Anything Goes at the Hirschfield, HMS Pinafore and The
Price at Minorca Playhouse for Florida Shakespeare Theatre, Faith Healer for
New World Repertory Company, and Angels in America and Youth and Asia at New
Theatre. His dance lighting design includes work for Freddick Bratcher and Company, Maximum Dance, Ballet
Espagno Rosita Segovia, Momentum Dance Company, Ballet Theatre of Miami, Ballet Etudes and Ballet Blue
Ridge. Mr. Quinn chairs the Florida Steering Committee of United Scenic Artists (Local 829, I.A.T.S.E.) and
teaches at New World School of the Arts. He is married to director/choreographer Deborah Mello, and is very
proud that their youngest son will graduate high school this year... Or else.
DANIELA SCHWIMMER (Costume Designer) has designed costumes for History of America
(Abridged), Simpatico, Skylight, Of Mice and Men, Full Gallop, Psychopathia Sexualis, Closer, Killer
Joe and This is Our Youth at GableStage.
She was part of the costume crew at Actor's Playhouse for
productions of Das Barbecu and She Loves Me. Daniela painted TV sets for
Univision and Channel 2, assisted the costume designer on TNT's The Man Who Captured Eichmann
with Robert Duvall. She has also assisted wardrobe for commercials and a TV channel in Argentina. Daniela
worked in Alfredo's Atellier, a costume shop in Miami. She would like to thank her husband, Ricardo,
for his love and support.
PATIENCE SOBEL (Stage Manager) marks her ninth production at GableStage with Side
Man. Patience has worked in many capacities for theatres in Arkansas, Florida, Michigan and
New York City. Some of her favorite shows have been Idols of the King, The Old Settler, Cabaret,
Sylvia, and of course, all the shows at GableStage. Lots of love goes out to her family, friends,
Bill "My heart is a thumb!" and to her man, Michael.
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