Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello
Joseph Mantellois an American actor and director best known for his work on Broadway productions of Wicked, Take Me Out and Assassins, as well as earlier in his career being one of the original Broadway cast of Angels in America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth27 December 1962
CountryUnited States of America
believe best job lead love smell stop three trying
I'm trying to stop working. Now I have to believe that I'm the best person for the job - or at least in the top three - and to really love the script. You must lead with passion, because actors are smart, and they can smell it when you don't.
people want kind
I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.
thinking ideas leader
I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.
believe what-matters redemption
Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?
thinking brave soul
I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.