Joe Mantello

Infobox actor
name = Joe Mantello

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birthname = Joseph Mantello
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birthplace = Rockford, Illinois, USA
occupation = Actor, director
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tonyawards = Best Direction of a Musical
2003 "Take Me Out"
Best Direction of a Play
2004 "Assassins"

Joseph Mantello (born 27 December 1962) is an 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.

Biography

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.

Awards and nominations

;Awards
* 1993 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches"
* 2003 Tony Award Best Direction of a Play - "Take Me Out"
* 2004 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Musical - "Wicked"
* 2004 Tony Award Best Direction of a Musical - "Assassins"

;Nominations
* 1993 Tony Award Best Featured Actor in a Play - "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches"
* 1995 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play - "Love! Valour! Compassion!"
* 1995 Tony Award Best Direction of a Play - "Love! Valour! Compassion!"
* 1998 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Direction of a Play - "Mizlansky/Zilinsky or 'Schmucks"'
* 2003 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Musical - "A Man of No Importance"
* 2003 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play - "Take Me Out"
* 2004 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Musical - "Assassins"
* 2005 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play - "Glengarry Glen Ross"
* 2005 Tony Award Best Direction of a Play - "Glengarry Glen Ross"

Work

tage productions

* 9 to 5 (Musical)
* Asking and Telling
* Assassins (Tony award winner, Director)
* The Baltimore Waltz
* bash
* Blackbird
* 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 Clair 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
* November
* The Odd Couple
* Proposals
* The Receptionist
* 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)

Filmography

* Love! Valour! Compassion! (director)
* Angels in America (actor, Tony nomination, 1997)
* Cookie (1989)
* Law & Order
* Sisters

References

*cite news | author=Playbill writers | title=Playbill Biography: Joe Mantello | url=http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/whoswho/biography/4110 | work=Playbill | date=2008 | accessdate=2008-05-24
*cite press release | title=The Old Globe Presents Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out | url=http://www.theoldglobe.org/pdf/TakeMeOut.pdf | publisher=The Old Globe | date=12 November 2004| accessdate=2008-05-24
*cite news | author=All Movie Guide | title=Joe Mantello Biography | url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/45203/Joe-Mantello/biography | work=The New York Times | date=2008 | accessdate=2008-05-24

External links

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* [http://www.americantheatrewing.org/seminars/detail/directing_06_06 Directing] "Working in the Theatre" seminar video at American Theatre Wing, June 2006
* [http://www.americantheatrewing.org/seminars/detail/playwright_director_and_choreographer_09_98 Playwright, Director, and Choreographer] "Working in the Theatre" seminar video at American Theatre Wing, September 1998
* [http://www.americantheatrewing.org/seminars/detail/love_valour_compassion_04_95 Production: Love! Valour! Compassion!] "Working in the Theatre" seminar video at American Theatre Wing, April 1995
* [http://www.americantheatrewing.org/seminars/detail/performance_09_93 Performance] "Working in the Theatre" seminar video at American Theatre Wing, September 1993