Wicked - Director Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello received many nominations and awards for Wicked, his Broadway musical directorial debut. Read my Interview with Joe Mantello on Musicalsingers.com (Audition tips). For the benefit of actors, I had asked him about what he expects at auditions.
[Photo (left): Joe Mantello in Wicked's stage manager's office at the Gershwin,
September 2004. Photo by Carol de Giere]
[Photo (right): Joe Mantello during reheArsals of Wicked in London, England, August 2006]
JOE MANTELLO Bio - Glengarry Glen Ross, Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera, The Vagina Monologues, Another American: Asking and Telling, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Proposals, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi, Mizlansky/Zilinsly or "Shmucks," Blue Window, God's Heart, The Santaland Diaries, Lillian, Snakebit, Three Hotels and Imagining Brad. Film: Love! Valour! Compassion! Acting credits: Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz. He is the recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obieand Joe A. Callaway Awards.
For more on Joe Mantello (although not up to date) see Hollywood.com [new browser window] (opens new browser window).
