Joseph Mantello was born on December 27,1962 and is an American actor and director known for his work on stage and screen.
19 Facts About Joe Mantello
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Joe Mantello first gained prominence for his Broadway acting debut in the original production of Tony Kushner's two-part epic play Angels in America for which he received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play nomination.
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Joe Mantello has since acted in acclaimed Broadway revivals of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.
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Joe Mantello has transitioned his career as a Broadway director winning the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Take Me Out, and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for Assassins.
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Joe Mantello has directed notable productions such as Wicked, Glengarry Glenn Ross, The Humans, Three Tall Women, and The Boys in the Band.
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Joe Mantello was born in Rockford, Illinois, the son of Judy and Richard Joe Mantello, an accountant.
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Joe Mantello's father is of Italian ancestry and his mother is of half Italian descent.
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Joe 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.
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Joe Mantello is a member of the Naked Angels theater company and an associate artist at the Roundabout Theatre Company.
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Joe Mantello began his theatrical career as an actor in Keith Curran's Walking the Dead and Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz.
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Joe Mantello directed the Jon Robin Baitz play Other Desert Cities at the Booth Theater in 2011.
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Joe Mantello 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, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play.
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Joe Mantello had previously been nominated for the Tony Award for his role as Louis in Angels in America.
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Joe Mantello directed the Off-Broadway world premiere of the musical Dogfight in the summer of 2012 at the Second Stage Theater.
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Joe Mantello directed the Harvey Fierstein play Casa Valentina, which premiered on Broadway in April 2014.
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Joe Mantello acted in the revival of The Glass Menagerie which opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre in February 2017.
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In 2018, Joe Mantello was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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In 2022, Joe Mantello was featured in the book 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre.
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From 1990 to 2002, Joe Mantello was in a relationship with playwright Jon Robin Baitz.