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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, This is Our Youth, Arms and the Man and Side Man. 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.
BEN ELTON (Playwright) was born in South London and studied drama at Manchester University. His
numerous television writing credits in England include The Thin Blue Line, Blackadder and
The Young Ones. Popcorn was a hugh success on London's West End, where it won the
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy of 1998. Other plays include Gasping and
Silly Cow. He is married, going gray, and lives in London.
DANIEL LEVAIN (Assistant Stage Manager) is marking his sixth show at GableStage, having worked as
Assistant Stage Manager and Production Assistant throughout this season. He previously worked in Kansas
City, where he developed a love for the theatre. Originally from Argentina, Daniel is pleased to be part of
the crew at such "an exciting theater".
JEFF QUINN (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, Arms and the Man and
Side Man for which he also designed the set.
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.
M. ANTHONY REIMER (Sound Designer) has been part of the team at GableStage with this season's
Closer, Killer Joe, This is Our Youth, Arms and the Man and Side 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. As this will be his final design in
South Florida, Tony would like to thank all the wonderful people he has had the pleasure of working with.
"I will miss you all dearly.&34;
RICH SIMONE (Set Design) returns to GableStage to complete his second season in South Florida.
Audiences will remember his set for the critically acclaimed This is Our Youth, and his
set dressing for Killer Joe. Rich thanks the community for the opportunities to express
himself in all the areas of theater. He recently designed sets and lighting for The Singular
Dorothy Parker, Tom-Tom On a Rooftop, Linsky Lane and O'Keefe at Hollywood Boulevard
Theatre; designed sets for Parallel Lives and The Eye of the Beholder at
Hollywood Playhouse; designed the set props and was Production Stage Manager for Summer Shorts
at the Ring Theatre; and performed in the box office record-breaking production of Pageant at
the Red Barn Theatre in Key West. Rich thanks the fabulous staff of GableStage for their support and Jack
for his patience.
PATIENCE SOBEL (Stage Manager) marks her tenth production at GableStage with Popcorn.
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,
and to her man, Michael.
ELLIS TILLMAN (Costume Design) has, over the past nineteen years, designed more than 45
productions at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, including The Flowering Peach with Eli Wallach
and Eileen Heckart, Alone Together with Janis Paige and Robert Reed, and four productions
with the late Jose Ferrer. Mr. Tillman has received nine Carbonell nominations, most recently for
The Disputation, and twice won the award for Blues in the Night and for
Seascape with Edward Albee. He also won LA's coveted Drama League Award for Bermuda Avenue
Triangle with Bea Arthur. Recent Playhouse designs include Broken Glass, The Rothchilds,
Waiting for Godot, Death Defying Acts, Indiscretions, Out of Order, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
Visiting Mr. Green, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Rags.
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