+ List of Joe Mantello awards Award Wins NominationsTony AwardsEmmy Awards
Joe Mantello is an American actor and director of projects on the stage and screen.
Mantello made his acting debut on Broadway in Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993) and Angels in America: Perestroika (1994) for which he earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play nomination. He also acted in the revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart in 2011 and Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie in 2017. He is also known for directing both comedic and dramatic plays and musicals on the Broadway stage including Wicked (2003), Glengarry Glen Ross (2005), 9 to 5 (2009), The Humans (2016), Three Tall Women and The Boys in the Band (both 2018). He has received eight Tony Award nominations winning twice for Best Direction of a Play for Take Me Out in 2003 and Best Direction of a Musical for Assassins in 2005. For his work in theatre he also received two Drama Desk Awards, a Drama League Award and two Outer Critics Circle Awards.
For his acting work in television he earned Primetime Emmy Award and Critics' Choice Television Award nominations for his performance as Mickey Marcus in the HBO television film The Normal Heart (2014). He also appeared in Ryan Murphy's limited series Hollywood (2020). That same year he directed the Netflix film Boys in the Band (2020).
Major associations Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1993 Best Featured Actor in a Play Angels in America: Millennium Approaches 1995 Best Direction of a Play Love! Valour! Compassion! 2003 Take Me Out 2004 Best Direction of a Musical Assassins 2005 Best Direction of a Play Glengarry Glenn Ross 2011 Best Actor in a Play The Normal Heart 2016 Best Direction of a Play The Humans 2018 Three Tall Women 2026 Death of a Salesman
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.Primetime Emmy Awards2014 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie The Normal Heart
Theatre awards Drama Desk Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1993 Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Angels in America: Millennium Approaches 1995 Outstanding Director of a Play Love! Valour! Compassion! 1998 Mizlansky/Zilinsky or 'Schmucks''' || || |- | style="text-align:center;", rowspan=2|2003 || Take Me Out || || |- | rowspan=3|Outstanding Director of a Musical || A Man of No Importance || || |- | style="text-align:center;", rowspan=2|2004 || Wicked || || |- | Assassins || || |- | style="text-align:center;"|2005 || Outstanding Director of a Play || Glengarry Glenn Ross || || |- | style="text-align:center;"|2009 || Outstanding Director of a Musical || 9 to 5 || || |- | style="text-align:center;"|2016 || rowspan="3" |Outstanding Director of a Play || The Humans || || |- | style="text-align:center;"|2018 || Three Tall Women || || |- | style="text-align: center;" |2026 |Death of a Salesman''
Drama League Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.2013 Excellence in Directing 2018 Outstanding Revival Three Tall Women 2026Outstanding Direction of a PlayDeath of a Salesman
Outer Critics Circle Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1992 Outstanding Debut Performance The Baltimore Waltz 1995 Outstanding Director of a Play Love! Valour! Compassion! 2003 Take Me Out 2004 Outstanding Director of a Musical Wicked 2005 Outstanding Director of a Play Glengarry Glenn Ross 2011 Outstanding Actor in a Play The Normal Heart 2016 Outstanding Direction of a Play The Humans 2018 Three Tall Women 2026 Death of a Salesman
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