fiction.wikisort.org - Actor

Joseph Mantello (born December 27, 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 members of Angels in America.

Joe Mantello
Born	Joseph Mantello (1962-12-27) December 27, 1962 (age 59) Rockford, Illinois, U.S.
Education	University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA)
Occupation	Actor director
Partner	Jon Robin Baitz (1990–2002)
Awards	Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 2003 Take Me Out Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical 2004 Assassins

Early life and education

Mantello was born in Rockford, Illinois, the son of Judy and Richard Mantello, an accountant.[1][2] His father is of Italian ancestry and his mother is of half Italian descent.[3] He was raised Catholic.[4]

Mantello studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts; he 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.

Career

Mantello came to New York from Illinois in 1984 in the midst of the AIDS crisis, having overcome a youthful feeling, he admitted to a reporter in 2013, that "for some reason I was deeply ashamed of the theater early on. I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn’t have put a word to it back then. Where I grew up, boys played sports. When [teacher] Mrs. Windsor wrote in my yearbook, 'Have you ever considered a career in the theater?' it was literally like she wrote the word 'faggot'."[5]

Mantello began his theatrical career as an actor in Keith Curran's Walking the Dead and Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz. On the transition from acting to directing, Mantello said, "I think I've become a better actor since I started directing, although some people might disagree. Since I've been removed from the process I see things that actors fall into. Now there's a part of me that's removed from the process and can stand back."[6]

Mantello directs a variety of theatre works, as The New York Times noted: "Very few American directors – Jack O'Brien and Mike Nichols come to mind – successfully jump genres and styles the way Mr. Mantello does, moving from a two-hander like Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune to the huge canvas of a mainstream musical comedy like Wicked, from downtown stand-up (The Santaland Diaries) to contemporary opera (Dead Man Walking) to political performance art (The Vagina Monologues)."[7]

A Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Lips Together, Teeth Apart directed by Mantello was scheduled to open at the American Airlines Theatre in April 2010, when one of the stars, Megan Mullally, suddenly quit. The production was postponed indefinitely due to her departure.[8]

Mantello directed the Jon Robin Baitz play Other Desert Cities at the Booth Theater in 2011. He returned to acting for the first time in over a decade with the role of Ned Weeks in the Broadway limited engagement revival of The Normal Heart in April 2011,[9] for which he was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play.[10] Mantello had previously been nominated for the Tony Award for his role as Louis in Angels in America.

He directed the Off-Broadway world premiere of the musical Dogfight in the summer of 2012 at the Second Stage Theater.[11] In January 2013, he directed the Broadway premiere of Sharr White's The Other Place at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. In 2014 he directed Sting's new musical The Last Ship.[12] He directed the Harvey Fierstein play Casa Valentina, which premiered on Broadway in April 2014.[13]

Mantello acted in the revival of The Glass Menagerie which opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre in February 2017. Directed by Sam Gold, the play stars Sally Field as Amanda Wingfield, with Mantello playing Tom.[14][15]

In 2018, Joe Mantello was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[16]

Personal life

From 1990 to 2002, Mantello was in a relationship with playwright Jon Robin Baitz.[17][18] As of 2018, he lives with Paul Marlow, who owns a bespoke clothing company in Manhattan.[19]

Theatre credits

As an actor

Year	Title	Credit(s)	Playwright	Venue
1993	Angels in America: Millennium Approaches	Louis Ironson	Tony Kushner	Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway
1994	Angels in America: Perestroika	Louis Ironson Sarah Ironson Council of Principalities
2010–11	The Normal Heart	Ned Weeks	Larry Kramer	John Golden Theatre, Broadway
2017	The Glass Menagerie	Tom Wingfield	Tennessee Williams	Belasco Theatre, Broadway

As a director

Year	Title	Playwright / composer	Venue
1994	What's Wrong with This Picture	Donald Margulies	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway
1995	Love! Valour! Compassion!	Terrence McNally	Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway
1997	Proposals	Neil Simon	Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway
2001	Design for Living	Noël Coward	American Airlines Theatre, Broadway
2002	An Evening with Mario Cantone	Mario Cantone
2002	Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune	Terrence McNally	Belasco Theatre, Broadway
2003	Take Me Out	Richard Greenberg	Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway
	Wicked	Stephen Schwartz	Gershwin Theatre, Broadway
2004	Assassins	Stephen Sondheim	Studio 54, Broadway
	Laugh Whore	Mario Cantone	Cort Theatre, Broadway
2005	Glengarry Glen Ross	David Mamet	Royale Theatre, Broadway
	The Odd Couple	Neil Simon	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway
2006	Three Days of Rain	Richard Greenberg	Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway
2007	The Ritz	Terrence McNally	Studio 54, Broadway
2008	November	David Mamet	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway
	Pal Joey	Richard Rodgers	Studio 54, Broadway
2009	9 to 5	Dolly Parton	Marquis Theatre, Broadway
2011	8	Dustin Lance Black	Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway
	Other Desert Cities	Jon Robin Baitz	Booth Theatre, Broadway
2013	The Other Place	Sharr White	Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Broadway
	I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers	John Logan	Booth Theatre, Broadway
2014	Casa Valentina	Harvey Fierstein	Samuel J. Friedman, Broadway
	The Last Ship	Sting / John Logan	Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway
2015–16	An Act of God	David Javerbaum	Studio 54, Broadway
	Airline Highway	Lisa D'Amour	Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Broadway
2016	The Humans	Stephen Karam	Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway
	Blackbird	David Harrower	Belasco Theatre, Broadway
2018	Three Tall Women	Edward Albee	John Golden Theatre, Broadway
	The Boys in the Band	Mart Crowley	Booth Theatre, Broadway
2019	Hillary and Clinton	Lucas Hnath	John Golden Theatre, Broadway
2020	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Edward Albee	Booth Theatre, Broadway

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1989	Cookie	Dominick
1997	Love! Valour! Compassion!	—	Director
2020	The Boys in the Band	—	Director and producer

Television

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1990	Three Hotels	—	Director; Television movie
	The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd	Mickey	Episode: "Here's Why You Can Never Have Too Much Petty Cash"
1991–98	Law & Order	Public Defender / Philip Marco	2 episodes
1993	Sisters	Adam Olderberg	Episode: "Moving Pictures"
1995	Central Park West	Ian Walker	3 episodes
2014	The Normal Heart	Mickey Marcus	HBO television film
2020	Hollywood	Dick Samuels	Limited series; 7 episodes
2022	The Watcher	John Graff	5 episodes
	American Horror Story: NYC	Gino Barelli

Awards and nominations

Notes

See also

• LGBT culture in New York City
• List of LGBT people from New York City

References

• Playbill writers (2008). "Playbill Biography: Joe Mantello". Playbill. Archived from the original on June 6, 2008. Retrieved May 24, 2008.
• "The Old Globe Presents Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out" (PDF) (Press release). The Old Globe. November 12, 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 7, 2007. Retrieved May 24, 2008.
• "Joe Mantello Biography". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2011. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2008.

External links

• Joe Mantello at the Internet Broadway Database
• Joe Mantello at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Joe Mantello at IMDb
• Joe Mantello at the American Theatre Wing
• 1992 BOMB Magazine interview with Joe Mantello by Nicole Burdette

На других языках

---

[de] Joe Mantello

Joseph „Joe“ Mantello (* 27. Dezember 1962 in Rockford, Illinois) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Theaterregisseur. Er ist insbesondere für seine Inszenierung der Musicals Wicked, Take Me Out und Assassins bekannt.

---

- [en] Joe Mantello

---

[ru] Мантелло, Джо

Джо́зеф Р. Манте́лло (англ. Joseph R. Mantello; род. 27 декабря 1962) — американский актёр и режиссёр, наиболее известный по работе на Бродвее. Лауреат двух премий «Тони».

---

---