Joe Mantello

Joe Mantello (2014)

Joseph "Joe" Mantello (born December 27, 1962 in Rockford , Illinois ) is an American actor and theater director . He is particularly known for his staging of the musicals Wicked , Take Me Out and Assassins .

Life

Joe Mantello grew up in a Roman Catholic family in Rockford, Illinois. He studied acting at the North Carolina School of the Arts . He founded the Edge Theater in New York City with actress Mary-Louise Parker and writer Peter Hedges . Mantello is a member of Naked Angels Theater and a freelance artist with the Roundabout Theater Company . From 1990 to 2002, Mantello dated actor Jon Robin Baitz .

Works (selection)

Theater productions

• 8th
• The Pridem, at the MCC Theater, New York
• 9 to 5
• Asking and telling
• Assassins
• The Baltimore Waltz
• bash
• Blackbird
• Blue window
• Corpus Christi
• Dead Man Walking, at the San Francisco Opera
• Design for Living
• Dogfight
• Fat Men in Skirts
• Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• God's Heart
• I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, for the Booth Theater on Broadway
• Imagining Brad (produced by Circle Repertory Company )
• Lillian
• Love! Valor! Compassion!
• A Man of No Importance , at Lincoln Center , New York
• Mario Cantone: Laugh Whore
• The Mineola Twins, Roundabout Theater Company, New York
• Mizlansky / Zilinsky or jewelry
• November
• The odd couple
• Other desert cities
• The Other Place
• Proposals
• The receptionist
• The Santaland Diaries (by David Sedaris )
• Snakebit
• Take me out
• Three Days of Rain, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, New York
• Three hotels
• The vagina monologues
• Wicked - The Witches of Oz
• The Grave

Filmography

• 1989: Cookie
• 1990: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (TV series, episode)
• 1990: Three Hotels (TV movie)
• 1993: A bouquet of daughters ( Sisters , TV series, an episode)
• 1991, 1998: Law & Order (TV series, two episodes)
• 1995: Central Park West (TV series, three episodes)
• 1997: love! Strength! Compassion! (Love! Valor! Compassion!) (Director)
• 2014: The Normal Heart (TV movie)
• 2020: Hollywood (TV series)
• 2020: The Boys in the Band , remake of the 1968 play of the same name by Mart Crowley .

Awards and nominations (selection)

Prices

• 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! Valor! Compassion!
• 1995: Tony Award - Best Direction of a Play - Love! Valor! 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
• 2011: Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play - The Normal Heart
• 2014: Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Film - The Normal Heart

Web links

• Joe Mantello in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Joe Mantello in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Joe Mantello at the American Theater Wing
• 1992 BOMB Magazine interview with Joe Mantello, by Nicole Burdette