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Joe Mantello Biography (1962-)

Full name, Joseph Mantello; born December 27, 1962, in Rockford, IL; father,an accountant. Addresses: Agent: Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actor, director

Birth Details

December 27, 1962

Rockford, Illinois, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• Crackwalker, off-Broadway production, 1987
• (As Joseph Mantello) Ticket inspector, gymnast, and second reporter, The Visit, Courtyard Playhouse, New York City, 1989
• Stan, Walking the Dead, Circle Repertory Company, New York City, 1991
• Third man, The Baltimore Waltz, Circle Repertory Company, 1992
• Louis Ironson, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1992-1993, then Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 1993-1994
• Louis Ironson and Sarah Ironson, Angels in America: Perestroika, Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, 1992-1993, then Walter Kerr Theatre, 1993-1994
• Easter Bonnet Competition: Back to Basics, Palace Theatre, New York City, 1995
• Also appeared in Progress.
• Stage Director
• Imagining Brad, Circle Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1989
• Nebraska, Naked Angels Theatre, New York City, 1991
• Coq au Vin, Naked Angels Theatre, 1991
• Babylon Gardens, Circle Repertory Company, 1991
• The Innocents' Crusade, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1991-1992
• Three Hotels, Circle Repertory Company, New York City, 1993
• Fat Men in Skirts, Naked Angels Theatre, 1994
• What's Wrong with the Picture?, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New YorkCity, 1994
• Three Hotels, Centre Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles,1994-1995
• Love! Valour! Compassion!, Manhattan Theatre Club, Stage I, New York City, 1994-1995, then Walter Kerr Theatre, 1995, later Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles, 1996-1997
• Blue Window, Manhattan Theatre Club, Stage I, 1996
• The Santaland Diaries, Atlantic Theatre, New York City, 1996
• God's Heart, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1997
• Proposals, Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, 1997
• Mizlansky/Zilinsky or "Schmucks," Manhattan Theatre Club, 1998
• Lillian, New Theatre Wing, New York City, 1998
• House, Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, NY, 1998
• Corpus Christi, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1998
• Bash, 1999
• The Mineola Twins, Laura Pels Theatre, New York City, 1999-2000
• The Vagina Monologues, Westside Theater (Downstairs), New York City, 1999-2003
• Another American: Asking & Telling, 1999
• Dead Man Walking, San Francisco Opera, 2000
• Design for Living, Roundabout Theatre Company, 2001
• Assassins, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 2001
• Take Me Out, Donmar Warehouse, London, then Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 2002
• Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Belasco Theater, New YorkCity, 2002
• A Man of No Importance, Mitzi Newhouse Theater, New York City, 2002
• Also directed Snakebit, New York Stage and Film; Three Hotels, Bay Street Theatre Festival, Sag Harbor, NY.
• Film Appearances
• Dominick, Cookie, Warner Bros., 1989
• Film Director
• Love! Valour! Compassion!, Fine Line, 1997
• Television Appearances
• Specials
• Three Hotels, 1990
• In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway, PBS, 1993
• Episodic
• Public defender, "Confession," Law & Order, NBC, 1991
• Adam Oldenberg, "Moving Pictures," Sisters, NBC, 1992
• Ian Walker, CPW (also known as Central Park West), CBS, 1995
• Philip Marco, "Tabloid," Law & Order, NBC, 1998
• Television Stage Director
• Movies
• Bash: Latterday Plays, Showtime, 2000
• Specials
• The Vagina Monologues, HBO, 2002
• And Then one Night: The Making of "Dead Man Walking," PBS, 2002
• Television Work
• Pilots
• Director and executive producer, New Year, TNT, 2000

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• Advocate, November 24, 1998, p. 77
• Back Stage, June 21, 1996, pp. 3-5; November 29, 1996, p. 28; February 20, 1998, pp. 3-4
• Entertainment Weekly, October 23, 1998, p. 65
• Variety, April 14, 1997, pp. 100-101; November 10, 1997, p. 51; February 23, 1998, p. 185; June 22, 1998, p. 63; August 31, 1998, p. 102; August 5, 2002, p. 33