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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.
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.
PEDRO "PIRI" REMIREZ (Lighting Designer) came to Miami after working for 6 years in Mexico
as technical director and lighting designer for Television Azteca and Alquimia Producciones, S.A. In his
native Cuba, he designed for theatre, television and film, as well as ballet and concerts. He was recently
lighting programmer for the American soap opera, Miami Sands. In Miami, he has designed
lighting for Teatro Avante and New Theatre, where his credits include Molly Sweeney, Clarence Darrow,
Moon for the Misbegotten and Woman in Black - directed by Joseph Adler, for which he
was awarded a Carbonell Honorable Mention.
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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