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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, Killer Joe and This is Our Youth. 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.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (Playwright 1856 - 1950) was born in Dublin and moved to London when he was
20. Unquestionably one of the greatest figures in English drama, he was concerned with nearly all the major
social and artistic currents of the century, from Darwinism to Fascism, from Ibsenism to motion pictures.
His writings include political commentaries, economic treatises, essays, plays, novels and critiques of the
arts. His plays utilized conventions of the 19th century novel, injecting such Shawian elements as wit, an
untraditional point of view, and articulate characters aware of their intellectual and social commitments.
In addition to Arms and the Man, his other well-known plays include Mrs. Warren's
Profession, Man and Superman, Candida, The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Doctor's Dilemma,
Major Barbara, Heartbreak House and St. Joan. Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature "for his work which is marked both by idealism and humanity."
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.
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.
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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