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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. Last season he directed Skylight, Of Mice and Men,
Full Gallop and Psychopathia Sexualis at GableStage, followed this season with
Closer and Killer Joe. 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.
KENNETH LONERGAN (Playwright) is primarily a playwright, although he has written
a number of screenplays, his most recent being "Analyze This" starring Billy Crystal
and Robert DeNiro and Universal's upcoming "Rocky and Bullwinkle." This is Our Youth
had a highly successful Off-Broadway run during the 1998-1999 Season, and was nominated for the
Drama Desk Award for Best Play. "You Can Count on Me," a film he wrote and directed
starring Matthew Broderick and Laura Linney (Executive Producer, Martin Scorsese) just won the Grand Jury
Prize and the Screenwriter's Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Lonergan's new play, The Waverly
Gallery, starring Eileen Heckart, began previews March 3rd at the Promenade in New York
City.
RICH SIMONE (Scenic Artist/Set Dresser) recently designed sets for Better Living,
Echoes, The Singular Dorothy Parker and Tom Tom on a Rooftop at the Hollywood Boulevard
Theatre, The Comet's Tale, Parallel Lives and Same Time Next Year at Hollywood
Playhouse, and The Apple Tree and Dames at Sea for the Shores Performing Arts
Theatre. For GableStage he has done scenic design and set dressing on this season's Killer Joe
and This is Our Youth. Rich enjoys his other careers as a professional actor and Stage
Manager, most recently for City Theatre's Summer Shorts and Winter Shorts.
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.
M. TONY REIMER (Sound Designer) has been part of the team at GableStage with this season's
Closer, Killer Joe, This is Our Youth and Arms and the Man. Originally an
orchestral French Horn Player,
Tony got his start in theatre through his composition talents for a staged adaptation of Jane
Eyre at Ball State University in his home state of Indiana. Since then, his work has been heard
in Texas, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Utah and Florida. Tony would like to thank all patrons of the
arts everywhere.
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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