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Joe Tantalo

JOE TANTALO

  
Nationality:    USA
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JOE TANTALO has been the Artistic Director of Godlight Theatre Company since 1994. Directing highlights include: Waiting on the Z Train (NY Premiere by UK Playwright Sean Tyler), the Third Man (World Premiere), A Clockwork Orange (NY Premiere and 2003 OOBR Critic's Choice Award Winner), Principia (World Premiere Musical), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (NY Revival), the Manchurian Candidate, All in the Timing, Pilgrims of the Night (NY Premiere), the House of Yes, Escape from Happiness, Poor Superman (NY Premiere and 2001 NYCFringe Award Winner), Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Raised in Captivity, subUrbia, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wait Until Dark, the Unexpected Guest, the Exhibition: the Life of John Merrick, A New York Minute, Labor Pains, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Theatre of the Film Noir, A Few Good Men, Soul in the Symphony of Confusion (NY Premiere), and Labor Day:A Community Struggle with AIDS (World Premiere with AIDS Project usa/Long Wharf Theatre and Contra Sida), among others. Off-Broadway: Jose Saramago's Blindness (American Premiere Adaptation 59E59 Theatres), Fahrenheit 451 (NY Premiere 59E59 Theatres), A Clockwork Orange (59E59 Theatres). Ensemble Studio Theatre: A Clockwork Orange, Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy, Curious George Goes to Class, the Adventures of Ashman, the Trial of George W., Brown, Big Al, Beds are Made to Lie In. Regional: Barbra's Wedding (Bristol Valley Theatre). International: Fahrenheit 451 (2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe), A Clockwork Orange (2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Mr. Tantalo has been trained at the Shakespeare Theatre, the Circle in the Square, the Kennedy Center, and Southern Connecticut State University. He was named Director of the Year (2002) by nyTheatre.com.

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below is a list of Joe Tantalo's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blindness         Clockwork Orange, A

Blindness

Synopsis:
A city is hit by an epidemic of white blindness. the blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. Inside, the criminal element among the blind hold the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped. there is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through the barren streets. the developments within this oddly anonymous group-the first blind man, the old man with the black eye patch, the girl with dark glasses, and the boy with no mother-are as uncanny as the surrounding chaos is harrowin
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Notes:
based on the novel by Portuguese Author Jose Saramago

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Organisations:
Godlight Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Clockwork Orange, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on the novel "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess

1st Produced:
Mamhatten Theatre Source, New York    2002

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Genre:
Adaptation

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