Joe Mantello
Born	Joseph Mantello December 27, 1962 (1962-12-27) (age 45) Rockford, Illinois, USA
Occupation	Actor, director
Awards won Tony Awards 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

Stage productions

Filmography

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

References

• Playbill writers (2008). "Playbill Biography: Joe Mantello", Playbill. Retrieved on 2008-05-24. 
• The Old Globe (12 November 2004). "The Old Globe Presents Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out". Press release. Retrieved on 2008-05-24.
• All Movie Guide (2008). "Joe Mantello Biography", The New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-05-24. 

External links

• Joe Mantello at the Internet Broadway Database
• Joe Mantello at the Internet Movie Database
• 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