Joe Mantello
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Joe Mantello (born 27 December 1962) in Rockford, Illinois is a Tony Award-winning American actor and director. He 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
- Tony Award, Best Director, 2003: Take Me Out
- Tony Award, Best Director, 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)
- 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 Clair de Lune
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- God's Heart
- Imagining Brad (produced at the Circle Repertory Company)
- Lillian
- Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination)
- 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 (Tony award)
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]
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