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JOSEPH ADLER (Director/Producing Artistic Director) is in his tenth season as Artistic Director of GableStage. The Little Dog Laughed is his 54th consecutive production. Adler previously directed at many South Florida Theatres including: Coconut Grove Playhouse, New Theatre, Area Stage, Hollywood Boulevard Theatre, Players Theatre, Ruth Foreman Theatre, Florida Shakespeare Theatre, City Theatre, Hollywood Playhouse and Shores Performing Arts. Active in South Florida's film and theatre community for many years, he has directed hundreds of television commercials and industrial films - winning 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. Since Adler became Producing Artistic Director, GableStage has been the recipient of 23 Carbonell Awards and 122 Carbonell Nominations. He has been nominated nineteen times (twelve at GableStage) and seven times won the Carbonell Award for Best Director: The Shadow Box (Coconut Grove Playhouse); The Killing of Sister George (Players Theatre); A Lesson Before Dying, James Joyce's The Dead, Edward Albee's The Goat, Frozen and The Pillowman (GableStage). Adler was awarded the prestigious George Abbott Award for "significant contributions to the artistic life and cultural development of greater Miami, Fort Lauderdale and the Palm Beaches." He has received many Best Director awards (Curtain Up, SunPost, New Times) and a Remy Award from the Theatre League of South Florida, as well as The Heart of the Arts Award presented by the New World School of the Arts. He was awarded the 2008 Arts and Entertainment Community Service Award, presented by the South Florida International Press Club. Adler studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and graduated from the Film Department at NYU.
DAVID HARROWER (Playwright) was born in Edinburgh in 1966. His first play, Knives in Hens (1997), was first produced in 1995 at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. He is also the author of the plays Kill the Old Torture Their Young (1998), and The Chrysalids (1999), adapted from John Wyndham's novel for the National Theatre's Connections project. Presence (2001), his third original play, was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in April 2001. David Harrower has also adapted versions of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author (Six Characters Looking for an Author) (2000), first staged at the Young Vic in 2000; Chekhov's Ivanov (2002), performed at the National Theatre in autumn 2002; and Buchner's Woyzeck, performed at the Edinburgh Lyceum in 2002. He has also translated The Girl on the Sofa (2002), a new play by Jon Fosse, presented in a joint production by the Edinburgh International Festival and the Schaubuhne, Berlin. His play, Dark Earth (2003), premiered at the Traverse in August 2003. He has also recently written a new version of Odon von Horvath's Tales from the Vienna Woods (2003) for the National Theatre, London, which opened in October 2003. His latest play, Blackbird (2005), premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005, transferred to London in 2007, where it won the Olivier Award for Best New Play (beating out Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll and Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon). In New York last season, it received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Play. David Harrower lives in Glasgow.
LYLE BASKIN (Set Design) moved to the North Carolina mountains three years ago but continues to work as a Scenic Designer in South Florida. His previous designs with Director Joseph Adler include The Killing of Sister George (Players Theatre), Cantorial (Hollywood Playhouse), Shadow Box (Carbonell winner at Coconut Grove Playhouse), and at GableStage, Skylight, Full Gallop (Carbonell nomination), Closer, Killer Joe (Carbonell nomination), Citizen Tom Paine, Of Mice and Men, Psychopathia Sexualis, Boy Gets Girl, A Lesson Before Dying (Carbonell nomination) Misery (Carbonell nomination) Brooklyn Boy, Fat Pig, Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Little Dog Laughed. Lyle's 30-year career also includes set designs for Coconut Grove Playhouse, Actors' Playhouse (Evita, 2001 Carbonell nomination), Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre, Area Stage, New Theatre, Acme Theatre, Hollywood Playhouse and Players State Theatre. He has also designed for Ring Theatre (UM), Miami-Dade Community College, Bloomsburg Theatre in Pennsylvania, Corning Summer Theatre and Ft. Lauderdale Presbyterian Church. Lyle is currently Scenic Designer for the Blowing Rock Stage Company in North Carolina.
JEFF QUINN (Lighting Design) is in his 10th season at GableStage, where his credits include lighting design for The Little Dog Laughed, Lieutenant of Inishmore (Carbonell nomination), Romance, Fat Pig, Golda's Balcony, Diary of Anne Frank and Boy Gets Girl (both Curtain Up Awards) and The Goat (Carbonell Award). He designed scenery and lighting for Frozen (Curtain Up & Carbonell Awards), The Blue Room, The Real Thing, The Play About the Baby and The Shape of Things. Jeff has designed for the Fulton Opera House, Pennsylvania Festival Theatre, Walt Disney Enterprises and Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Lines. His South Florida work includes White Christmas (Actors' Playhouse), Faith Healer (New World Repertory Company), Angels in America (New Theatre and New World School of the Arts), Brooklyn Bridge (Playground Theatre), Talk Radio (Mosaic Theatre) and Nefertitti, The Musical (Parker Playhouse). Jeff designed scenery and lighting for Fidelio and The Inner Ear (Florida Philharmonic Orchestra), and has designed for the New World Symphony, Maximum Dance, Ballet Theatre of Miami, Momentum Dance Company, Ballet Espanol Rosita Segovia, the Gold-Diggers and the Miami Christmas Pageant. His work was included in the extraordinary Design USA exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial 2007 International Exhibition of Scenography, catalog available at www.usitt.org. Jeff is on the faculty at New World School of the Arts, and is a member of United Scenic Artists (Local 829, I.A.T.S.E.) and the US Institute for Theatre Technology. He is married to director Deborah Mello.
MATT COREY (Music/Sound) is proud to have designed sound and composed original music for each of the past 13 productions at GableStage, including The Pillowman and Fahrenheit 451 for which he received a Carbonell award and nomination respectively - and most recently, In The Continuum. At the Mosaic Theatre, Matt's sound design was most recently heard in Talk Radio and Guest Artist. Matt earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Bassoon Performance at the University of Miami, and is currently a member of the Florida Grand Opera orchestra. He can frequently be heard playing various woodwind instruments in the pit orchestra for touring Broadway productions, and is a proud member of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 655. By day, Matt is the Digital Production Manager at Insight for the Blind Studios in Fort Lauderdale, where he oversees all aspects of the production of 100 Library of Congress "Talking Book" titles each year, for the blind and physically handicapped. Many thanks to Mom, Pop, Dina and Caroline for the steady flow of inspiration, support and love.
ELLIS TILLMAN (Costume Designer) was the resident Costume Designer at the Coconut Grove Playhouse for twenty-five years, and is thrilled to now design for Gablestage. Lieutenant of Inishmore and Smut are two of his resent favorites. Ellis was nominated for a Barrymore Award in Philadelphia for Enchanted April. He was awarded L.A.'s Drama-Logue for Bermuda Avenue Triangle with Bea Arthur and has three times won the Carbonell Award. Mr. Tillman made his Broadway debut as costume designer for Urban Cowboy The Musical. Ellis designed the costumes for the Off-Broadway production of Confessions of a Mormon Boy and the national tour of Tuesdays with Morrie starring Harold Gould.
CLAIRE SAVITT (Props) has been at GableStage for the last four seasons. She delights especially in finding the items that "play hard to get". Claire has worked on a number of plays, including A Lesson Before Dying, James Joyce's The Dead, Dirty Blonde, The Shape of Things, Nixon's Nixon, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Goat, What the Butler Saw, Ten Unknowns, 'Master Harold'... and the
boys, QED, Frozen, Bug, Retreat from Moscow, A Bad Friend, Misery, Brooklyn Boy, Address Unknown, Golda's Balcony, Smut, Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Little Dog Laughed. A former folk art gallery owner, Claire resides in Coconut Grove with her husband.
Carlos Rodriguez (Technical Director)
MICHAEL JOHN CARROLL (Stage Manager) is charmed to be at GableStage for his fourth season, serving as Production Stage Manager for its productions of The Little Dog Laughed, In the Continuum, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Smut (World Premiere), Golda's Balcony, Fat Pig, Romance, Fahrenheit 451, The Pillowman (Carbonell Best Play), This Is How It Goes, Miss Margarida's Way, Intimate Apparel, Address Unknown, Brooklyn Boy, Misery, A Bad Friend, The Syringa Tree, The Retreat From Moscow (Carbonell Best Play Nominee), Bug, Frozen (Carbonell Best Play), Trumbo, QED and 'Master Harold' ...and the boys. Former stomping grounds include Actors' Playhouse, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Hollywood Playhouse, and the Miami premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Level Nightclub on Miami Beach. Michael has a BFA in Theatre from Barry University and is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and the Theatre League of South Florida. He would like to thank the audience for doing their part to support South Florida theatre, Joe for so much great work and friendship, Joline for love at last and Mom for everything.
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