Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

Joe Mantello

 
Director: Joe Mantello
Home > Library > Entertainment & Arts > Actors
  • Born: Dec 27, 1962
  • Occupation: Director, Actor
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Crime, Comedy Drama
  • Career Highlights: Love! Valour! Compassion!
  • First Major Screen Credit: Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)

Biography

Actor/director Joe Mantello is best known for his work on the New York stage, both on and off Broadway, but he has also occasionally tarried with feature films and television. Born and raised in Rockford, IL, Mantello studied at the Carolina School of the Arts. Upon graduating, he and classmates actress Mary-Louise Parker and writer Peter Hedges founded the short-lived Edge Theater in New York City. In 1989, Mantello joined the prestigious Circle Repertory Company as an actor and a director. That year, he made his feature film debut with a small role in Susan Seidelman's Cookie. Mantello is known as a versatile and talented actor and won a Drama Desk Award and a Tony nomination for his work in Tony Kushner's Angels in America. But despite the accolades and his ability, Mantello has found good roles hard to come by and, therefore, has not appeared all that often on Broadway. He has occasionally appeared on such quality television dramas as Law & Order and Sisters. As a director, Mantello has staged a variety of productions, but is best known for directing Terrence McNally's esteemed Love! Valour! Compassion!, a moving chronicle of eight gay men who gather on weekends at a lovely summer cottage. Mantello directed the play off and on Broadway, as well as the 1997 feature film version. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Search unanswered questions...

Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics

Wikipedia: Joe Mantello
Top
Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Wikipedia
Joe Mantello
Born Joseph Mantello
December 27, 1962 (1962-12-27) (age 46)
Rockford, Illinois, USA
Occupation Actor, director

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 directed The Ritz, his sixth production with playwright Terrence McNally, in 2007.

Contents

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

References

External links

v • d • e
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical

Arthur Laurents (1975) · Michael Bennett (1976) · Martin Charnin (1977) · Peter Masterson / Tommy Tune / Stephen Schwartz (1978) · Harold Prince (1979) · Harold Prince (1980) · Wilford Leach (1981) · Tommy Tune (1982) · George Abbott (1983) · James Lapine (1984) · Wilford Leach (1986) · Mike Ockrent (1987) · Harold Prince (1988) · Tommy Tune (1990) · Scott Ellis (1991) · Jerry Zaks (1992) · Des McAnuff (1993) · Nicholas Hytner (1994) · Harold Prince (1995) · Christopher Renshaw (1996) · Walter Bobbie (1997) · Julie Taymor (1998) · Matthew Bourne (1999) · Michael Blakemore (2000) · Susan Stroman (2001) · Michael Mayer (2002) · Jack O'Brien (2003) · Joe Mantello (2004) · James Lapine (2005) · John Doyle (2006) · Michael Mayer (2007) · Bartlett Sher (2008) · Stephen Daldry (2009)
v • d • e
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical

Susan Stroman (2001) · John Rando (2002) · Jack O'Brien (2003) · Joe Mantello (2004) · Mike Nichols (2005) · John Doyle (2006) · Michael Mayer (2007) · Bartlett Sher (2008) · Stephen Daldry (2009)
v • d • e
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

Daniel J. Sullivan (2001) · Mary Zimmerman (2002) · Joe Mantello (2003) · Jack O'Brien (2004) · Doug Hughes (2005) · Nicholas Hytner (2006) · Jack O'Brien (2007) · Anna D. Shapiro (2008) · Matthew Warchus (2009)
v • d • e
Wicked
Books
Stage adaptations
Characters
Songs
People
Other

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)

 
 
Learn More
Love! Valour! Compassion! (American Theater)
Justin Kirk (Actor, Comedy Drama/Drama)
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997 Comedy Drama Film)

Where is Joe Barrick Where is Joe Barrick? Read answer...
How old is joe from the joe bros? Read answer...
Is joe and vanessa and joe going out? Read answer...

Help us answer these
Who was joe perechini?
Do joe in love?
Joe we love you?

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

 

Copyrights:

Director. Copyright © 2009 All Media Guide, LLC. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Joe Mantello".  Read more