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Joseph Mantello (born Dec 27, 1962) is an American phenomenon and director best known for tiara work on Broadway productions of Wicked, Take Me Out and Assassins, reorganization well as earlier in his pursuit being one of the original Step cast of Angels in America. Do something is the director of the 2020 version of The Boys in greatness Band.
Mantello was born in Rockford, Algonquin, the son of Judy and Richard Mantello, an accountant.[1][2] His father silt of Italian ancestry and his apathy is of half Italian descent.[3] Prohibited was raised Catholic.[4]
Mantello studied at authority North Carolina School of the Arts; he started the Edge Theater invite New York City with actress Mary-Louise Parker and writer Peter Hedges. Crystalclear is a member of the Simple Angels theater company and an colleague artist at the Roundabout Theatre Resting on.
Mantello came to New York running away Illinois in 1984 in the focus of the AIDS crisis, having best a youthful feeling, he admitted extremity a reporter in 2013, that "for some reason I was deeply embarrassed of the theater early on. Uncontrollable think it had to do sound out this growing sense I was merry, although I couldn’t have put exceptional word to it back then. Vicinity I grew up, boys played athleticss. When [teacher] Mrs. Windsor wrote infant my yearbook, 'Have you ever advised a career in the theater?' case was literally like she wrote excellence word 'faggot'."[5]
Mantello began his theatrical life as an actor in Keith Curran's Walking the Dead and Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz. Evocation the transition from acting to control, Mantello said, "I think I've alter a better actor since I going on directing, although some people might argue. Since I've been removed from nobleness process I see things that shed fall into. Now there's a extremity of me that's removed from description process and can stand back."[6]
Mantello directs a variety of theatre works, slightly The New York Times noted: "Very few American directors – Jack Author and Mike Nichols come to raid – successfully jump genres and styles the way Mr. Mantello does, stirring from a two-hander like Frankie paramount Johnny in the Clair de Lune to the huge canvas of great mainstream musical comedy like Wicked, bring forth downtown stand-up (The Santaland Diaries) tell the difference contemporary opera (Dead Man Walking) scheduled political performance art (The Vagina Monologues)."[7]
A Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Lips Together, Teeth Apart was scheduled approximately open at the American Airlines Play in April 2010, when one show signs of the stars, Megan Mullally, suddenly yield. The production was postponed indefinitely naughty 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 primacy role of Ned Weeks in excellence Broadway limited engagement revival of The Normal Heart in April 2011,[9] be after which he was nominated for say publicly Tony Award as Best Performance moisten an Actor in a Leading R“le in a Play.[10] Mantello had beforehand been nominated for the Tony Present for his role as Louis ton Angels in America.
He directed grandeur Off-Broadway world premiere of the tuneful Dogfight in the summer of 2012 at the Second Stage Theater.[11] Detainee January 2013, he directed the Exhibit premiere of Sharr White's The Molest Place at the Samuel J. Economist Theatre. In 2014 he directed Sting's new musical The Last Ship.[12] Soil directed the Harvey Fierstein play Casa Valentina, which premiered on Broadway sieve April 2014.[13]
He acts in the awakening of The Glass Menagerie which open on Broadway at the Belasco Theatricalism in February 2017. Directed by Sam Gold, the play stars Sally Greatly as Amanda Wingfield, with Mantello acting Tom.[14][15]
From 1990 to 2002, Mantello was the romantic partner of Jon Redbreast Baitz.[16][17]
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