AwardsTony Winner Joe Mantello to Receive SDCF’s Mr. Abbott Lifetime Achievement AwardThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation will honor the director, who will helm a revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf this season.
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Dan Meyer
October 08, 2019
Joe Mantello
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Broadway director Joe Mantello will receive the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Mr. Abbott Award, in honor of his outstanding contributions to theatre. The two-time Tony Award winner will be presented with the honor March 30, 2020, at SDCF’s annual gala.
Mantello earned back-to-back Tonys for directing Take Me Out and Assassins. His myriad additional credits on Broadway include Wicked, Three Tall Women, the 2018 revival of The Boys in the Band. This season, he will helm a revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett.
As an actor, Mantello was Tony-nominated for his performance as Louis Ironson in the original Broadway production of Angels in America and earned an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Mickey Marcus in Ryan Murphy’s TV adaptation of The Normal Heart (having played Ned Weeks in the Broadway revival). Next, he’ll appear in Murphy’s upcoming Netflix series Hollywood, starring Jeremy Pope, Darren Criss, Patti LuPone, and Jim Parsons.
Chairing the “Mr. Abbott” Award Committee are Murphy, Scott Rudin, Robert Greenblatt, and SDC Executive Board Members Mark Brokaw, Rachel Chavkin, and Anne Kauffman.
The Mr. Abbott Award is named in honor of the late renowned director George Abbott, who penned the book for and helmed The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, and Fiorello!. Past recipients include Kenny Leon, Bob Fosse, Lynne Meadow, Jerry Mitchell, Harold Prince, James Lapine, Susan Stroman, Julie Taymor, Tommy Tune, George C. Wolfe, and Jerry Zaks.
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Celebrating the Stage Work of Two-Time Tony Winner Joe Mantello
Celebrating the Stage Work of Two-Time Tony Winner Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello, who will be directing The Humans and Blackbird on Broadway in early 2016, celebrates his birthday Dec. 27. Playbill.com looks back at his stage career, as an actor and prolific director. Happy birthday, Joe!
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Joe Mantello and Stephen Spinella in Angels in America: Millenium Approaches
Joan Marcus
Stephen Spinella, David Marshall Grant, Marcia Gay Harden and Joe Mantello in Angels in America: Millenium Approaches
Stephen Spinella and Joe Mantello in Angels in America: Perestroika
David Marshall Grant and Joe Mantello in Angels in America: Perestroika
John Glover, Nathan Lane and Anthony Heald in Love! Valour! Compassion!
John Benjamin Hickey and Anthony Heald in Love! Valour! Compassion!
Martha Swope
Nathan Lane, Anthony Heald, Justin Kirk, Stephen Bogardus, John Benjamin Hickey and John Glover in Love! Valour! Compassion!
Jerry Stiller and Marcell Rosenblatt in What's Wrong With This Picture?
Faith Prince and Alan Rosenberg in What's Wrong With This Picture?
David Moscow and Faith Prince in What's Wrong With This Picture?
A Scene from Proposals
Kelly Bishop and Dick Latessa
A Scene from Proposals
A Scene from Proposals
Alan Cumming and Dominic West
Jennifer Ehle and Dominic West
Alan Cumming, Jennifer Ehle, and Dominic West
Stanley Tucci and Edie Falco
Stanley Tucci and Edie Falco
Daniel Sunjata (Left) and Joe Lisi (Right)
Daniel Sunjata in Take Me Out
Denis O'Hare and James Yaegashi in Take Me Out
Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel
Norbert Leo Butz and Idina Menzel
"No One Mourns the Wicked"
Denis O'Hare, Michael Cerveris, James Barbour, and Becky Ann Baker
James Barbour and Neil Patrick Harris in Assassins
The Cast of Assassins
The cast of Assassins
Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick
Nathan Lane, Lee Wilkof, Rob Bartlett, Matthew Broderick, Brad Garrett and Peter Frechette
Paul Rudd and Julia Roberts
Bradley Cooper and Julia Roberts
Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper
Kevin Chamberlin and Matthew Montelongo in The Ritz
Rosie Perez and Kevin Chamberlin, with (under the bed) Terrence Riordan and Brooks Ashmanskas in The Ritz
Nathan Lane and Ethan Phillips in November
Laurie Metcalf in November
Nathan Lane and Dylan Baker in November
Martha Plimpton and cast in Pal Joey
Joan Marcus
Matthew Risch and Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing and Matthew Risch
Allison Janney, Stephanie J. Block and Kathy Fitzgerald
Stephanie J. Block, Allison Janney and Megan Hilty
Megan Hilty, Allison Janney and Stephanie J. Block
Joe Mantello and John Benjamin Hickey in The Normal Heart
Joan Marcus
Joe Mantello in The Normal Heart
Lee Pace, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello and Patrick Breen in The Normal Heart
Joan Marcus
Stockard Channing, Rachel Griffiths and Stacy Keach
Joan Marcus
Judith Light
Judith Light and Stockard Channing
Zoe Perry and Laurie Metcalf
Laurie Metcalf and Daniel Stern
Laurie Metcalf
Bette Midler
Richard Termine
Bette Midler
Reed Birney
Larry Pine
Nick Westrate, John Cullum, Gabriel Ebert and Tom McGowan
Matthew Murphy
Fred Applegate, Jimmy Nail, Sally Ann Triplett and cast
Jimmy Nail and cast
Jimmy Nail and Sally Ann Triplett
Michael Esper and Rachel Tucker
Matthew Murphy
Jim Parsons
Jeremy Daniel
Jim Parsons
Tim Kazurinsky, Jim Parsons and Christopher Fitzgerald
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