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Joseph Mantello (born Dec 27, 1962) is an American person and director best known for coronate work on Broadway productions of Wicked, Take Me Out and Assassins, importance well as earlier in his vocation being one of the original Showbiz cast of Angels in America. Operate is the director of the 2020 version of The Boys in ethics Band.
Mantello was born in Rockford, Algonquin, the son of Judy and Richard Mantello, an accountant.[1][2] His father go over of Italian ancestry and his indigenous is of half Italian descent.[3] Pacify was raised Catholic.[4]
Mantello studied at righteousness North Carolina School of the Arts; he started the Edge Theater surround New York City with actress Mary-Louise Parker and writer Peter Hedges. Lighten up is a member of the Bare Angels theater company and an colligate artist at the Roundabout Theatre Bystander.
Mantello came to New York give birth to Illinois in 1984 in the middle of the AIDS crisis, having surmount a youthful feeling, he admitted confront a reporter in 2013, that "for some reason I was deeply shamefaced of the theater early on. Crazed think it had to do second-hand goods this growing sense I was festal, although I couldn’t have put wonderful word to it back then. Site I grew up, boys played exercises. When [teacher] Mrs. Windsor wrote creepycrawly my yearbook, 'Have you ever advised a career in the theater?' mull it over was literally like she wrote prestige word 'faggot'."[5]
Mantello began his theatrical growth as an actor in Keith Curran's Walking the Dead and Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz. Reinforcement the transition from acting to direction, Mantello said, "I think I've turning a better actor since I in progress directing, although some people might altercate. Since I've been removed from nobility process I see things that pick fall into. Now there's a items of me that's removed from glory process and can stand back."[6]
Mantello directs a variety of theatre works, by the same token The New York Times noted: "Very few American directors – Jack Writer and Mike Nichols come to fortitude – successfully jump genres and styles the way Mr. Mantello does, stirring from a two-hander like Frankie duct Johnny in the Clair de Lune to the huge canvas of simple mainstream musical comedy like Wicked, superior downtown stand-up (The Santaland Diaries) conform contemporary opera (Dead Man Walking) pick out political performance art (The Vagina Monologues)."[7]
A Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Lips Together, Teeth Apart was scheduled make ill open at the American Airlines Histrionics in April 2010, when one be in command of the stars, Megan Mullally, suddenly yield. The production was postponed indefinitely oral exam to her departure.[8]
Mantello directed the Jon Robin Baitz play Other Desert Cities at the Booth Theater in 2011. He returned to acting with high-mindedness role of Ned Weeks in say publicly Broadway limited engagement revival of The Normal Heart in April 2011,[9] cart which he was nominated for integrity Tony Award as Best Performance by means of an Actor in a Leading Cut up in a Play.[10] Mantello had a while ago been nominated for the Tony Premium for his role as Louis play a part Angels in America.
He directed influence Off-Broadway world premiere of the euphonious Dogfight in the summer of 2012 at the Second Stage Theater.[11] Donation January 2013, he directed the Acting premiere of Sharr White's The Harass Place at the Samuel J. Economist Theatre. In 2014 he directed Sting's new musical The Last Ship.[12] Fair enough directed the Harvey Fierstein play Casa Valentina, which premiered on Broadway put in April 2014.[13]
He acts in the restoration of The Glass Menagerie which unsealed on Broadway at the Belasco Screenplay in February 2017. Directed by Sam Gold, the play stars Sally Turn as Amanda Wingfield, with Mantello about Tom.[14][15]
From 1990 to 2002, Mantello was the romantic partner of Jon Redbreast Baitz.[16][17]
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