Joe Brancato (director)

Recent NY credits: The Devil’s Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Off-Broadway Alliance, & Audelco Award nominee); Miracle on South Division Street; Fall to Earth (InProximity Co); Freed (Audelco Award nominee); Tryst (Outer Critics nomination for Best Play); Cobb (Drama Desk winner) co-produced by Kevin Spacey and Melting Pot; From Door To Door; One Shot, One Kill at Primary Stages; Jeffrey Solomon’s Santa Claus is Coming Out; Two and a Half Jews; My Italy Story; Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Matter of Minutes; Escape from Happiness (starring Marsha Mason), The Big Swing (starring Madeline Kahn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Marisa Tomei), Dr. Valentine’s Waltz (starring John Turturro, Laura Linney, Gina Gershon, Jane Alexander) at Naked Angels; and Hold the Wedding, produced by Joseph Papp. Regional credits include: Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (Canada), Cleveland Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Alley Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Westport Country Playhouse, Montreal Jazz Festival, Capital Rep, TheaterWorks of Hartford, Cape Playhouse, Rubicon, Passage Theatre, and Florida Repertory Theatre. As founding artistic director of Penguin Rep, he has directed Daniel’s Husband by Michael McKeever and premieres by Arthur Laurents, Lanie Robertson, William Mastrosimone, James Sherman, Steven Dietz, Richard Vetere, Allan Knee, and others. Thanks Andrew, Ted, Morty, and Mom.