JOE MANTELLO

'Joe Mantello' (born 27 December 1962) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and director best known for his work on Broadway productions of ''Wicked'', ''Take Me Out'' and ''Assassins'', as well as earlier in his career being one of the original Broadway cast of ''Angels in America''. Mantello is currently directing ''The Ritz'', his sixth production with Terrence McNally.
Mantello was born in Rockford, Illinois and studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and started the Edge Theater in New York City with actress Mary-Louise Parker and writer Peter Hedges. He is a member of
the Naked Angels theater company and an associate artist at the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Contents

Awards

Stage Directing Credits

Film Credits

Acting

Sources

External Links

Awards

★ Tony Award, Best Director of a Play, 2003: Take Me Out

★ Tony Award, Best Director of a Musical, 2004: Assassins

★ Outer Critics Circle Award

★ Drama Desk Award

★ Lucille Lortel Award

★ Helen Hayes Award

★ Clarence Derwent Award

★ Obie Award

★ Joe A. Callaway Award

Stage Directing Credits

★ Asking and Telling

★ Assassins (Tony award winner, Director)

★ bash

★ Blue Window

★ Corpus Christi

★ Dead Man Walking (Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie) for the San Francisco Opera

★ Design for Living

★ Fat Men in Skirts

★ Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune

★ Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination, Director)

★ God's Heart

★ Imagining Brad (produced at the Circle Repertory Company)

★ Lillian

★ Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony award nomination, Director)

★ A Man of No Importance

★ Mario Cantone: Laugh Whore

★ The Mineola Twins

★ Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks

★ The Odd Couple

★ Proposals

★ The Santaland Diaries (by David Sedaris)

★ Snakebit

★ Take Me Out (New York - Tony award, San Diego)

★ Three Days of Rain

★ Three Hotels

★ The Vagina Monologues

★ ''Wicked'' (2004 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Musical)

Film Credits

★ Love! Valour! Compassion! (director)

Acting

★ Angels in America (actor, Tony nomination, 1997)

★ The Baltimore Waltz

★ Cookie (1989)

★ Law & Order

★ Sisters

Sources

★ Playbill biography

★ The Old Globe theater company ''Take Me Out'' production notes

★ New York Times Movie Guide

★ Broadway.com interview

External Links

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★ Directing ''Working in the Theatre'' seminar video at American Theatre Wing, June 2006

★ Playwright, Director, and Choreographer ''Working in the Theatre'' seminar video at American Theatre Wing, September 1998

★ Production: Love! Valour! Compassion! ''Working in the Theatre'' seminar video at American Theatre Wing, April 1995

★ Performance ''Working in the Theatre'' seminar video at American Theatre Wing, September 1993