Joe Mantello

Joe Mantello (born 27 December 1962) in Rockford, Illinois is a Tony Award-winning American actor and director. He studied at the 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
• God's Heart
• Imagining Brad
• Lillian
• Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination)
• A Man of No Importance
• Mario Cantone: Laugh Whore
• The Mineola Twins
• Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks
• Proposals
• The Santaland Diaries (by David Sedaris)
• Snakebit
• Take Me Out (New York – Tony award, San Diego)
• 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