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Jared Mezzocchi
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Jared Mezzocchi is an American theatre director and projection designer.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
 | This biographical article is written like a résumé. (April 2025) |
In 2020, Jared was named in a Top 5 List in the New York Times as a Theatre Artist spotlit for their innovative work during the pandemic, alongside Andrew Lloyd Webber and Paula Vogel.[8] His work as a co-director and multimedia designer for Sarah Gancher's RUSSIAN TROLL FARM gained him particular notoriety in the New York Times as Critics Pick and noted as one of the first digitally-native successes for virtual theater.[9] In 2023, Mezzocchi was awarded his second Obie Award for this digital production, alongside his creative team.[10] In 2017, Mezzocchi won an Obie Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, a Henry Hewes Award, and an Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award nomination for his work on Qui Nguyen's Vietgone at the Manhattan Theatre Club.[11] In recognition of his work with the HERE Arts Center in New York City in 2012, Mezzocchi became the first projection designer to receive a Princess Grace Award in theatre.[12] In 2011, Mezzocchi won the Best Original Playwright award at the New Hampshire Theater Awards.[3][13][14] He has collaborated with theatre companies in the U.S. and Europe, including Big Art Group, The Builders Association, 3-Legged Dog, Arena Stage, Studio Theater, Theater J, Center Stage, Olney Theatre Center, Everyman Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Wilma Theater.[15] Currently, he teaches projection design at University of Maryland in Washington, D.C.,[3] and serves as Artistic Director of Andy's Summer Playhouse, a youth theatre in Wilton, NH[15]
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Awards
- 2023 Obie Award – Co-Direction & Multimedia Design, Russian Troll Farm[10]
- 2023 Helen Hayes Award – Projection Design, We Declare You a Terrorist[16]
- 2021 Mini-Commission for New Work at Vineyard Theatre[17]
- 2020 Macdowell Colony Fellow
- 2020 Helen Hayes Award Nomination – Outstanding Direction, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Round House Theatre)[18]
- 2019 Helen Hayes Award Nomination – Outstanding Original Play Adaptation, How To Catch A Star (The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)[19]
- 2017 Henry Hewes Design Award – Projection Design, Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club)[20]
- 2017 Obie Award – Projection Designer[21]
- 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards – Projection Design, Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club)[22]
- 2017 Drama Desk Award (nomination) – Projection Design, Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club)[23]
- 2017 Outer Critics Circle Award (nomination) – Projection Design, Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club)[24]
- 2017 Macdowell Colony Fellow[25]
- 2015 Helen Hayes Award (nomination) – Outstanding Lighting Design (with Projections), Totalitarians (Woolly Mammoth Theater)[26]
- 2015 Elliot Norton Awards – Outstanding Design, Astroboy and the God of Comics (Company One)[27]
- 2015 IRNE Awards (Independent Reviewers of New England) – Best Projections, Astroboy and the God of Comics (Company One)[28]
- 2013 Dance Metro DC Award – Excellence in Stage Design/Multimedia, ISADORA IN RUSSIA (WORD DANCE)[29]
- 2012 Princess Grace Awards – HERE Arts Center[30]
- 2011 NH Theatre Awards – Best Original Playwright – The Lost World (Andy's Summer Playhouse)[31]
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Notable Work
Virtual Performance during the Pandemic, Directing & Multimedia Design
- 2022 SECTION230 – HERE Arts Center URHERE Launch, Multimedia Director & Creator
- 2021 On The Beauty of Loss Archived 2021-02-26 at the Wayback Machine – Vineyard Theatre Mini-Commission, Multimedia Director & Creator
- 2021 Someone Else’s House – Geffen Playhouse Writer & Performer
- 2020 Russian Troll Farm – Theaterworks Hartford, TheatreSquared, The Civilians[32] Co-Director, Multimedia Designer
- 2020 CANCELLED – Diversionary Theatre [33] Director, Multimedia Designer
Theater Directing
- 2024 SANDRA – TheaterWorks Hartford
- 2022 We Declare You a Terrorist – Round House Theatre
- 2021 On The Beauty of Loss Archived 2021-02-26 at the Wayback Machine – Vineyard Theatre Mini-Commission
- 2020 Russian Troll Farm – Theaterworks Hartford, TheatreSquared, The Civilians[32]
- 2020 CANCELLED – Diversionary Theatre[33]
- 2019 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Round House Theatre[34]
- 2018 How To Catch a Star – The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts[35]
- 2018 Around The World in 80 Days – National Players[36]
- 2015 The Lost World – University of Maryland, College Park[37]
Off-Broadway Design
Off-Off Broadway Design
- 2013 The Downtown Loop – 3-Legged Dog[38]
- 2013 You Are Dead. You Are Here. – HERE Arts Center[39]
Washington D.C. Design
- 2017 Color's Garden – National Gallery of Art[40]
- 2017 I'll Get You Back Again – Roundhouse Theater[41]
- 2017 The Arsonists – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company[42]
- 2017 Smart People – Arena Stage[43]
- 2017 Intelligence – Arena Stage[44]
- 2016 The Nether – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company[45]
- 2014 Stones in his Pockets – Centerstage Baltimore[46]
- 2013 Race – Theatre J[47]
- 2012 The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company[48]
- 2012 Astro Boy and the God of Comics – Studio Theatre[49]
Regional Design
- 2017 Wild & Reckless Archived 2018-02-01 at the Wayback Machine – Portland Centerstage[50]
- 2016 American Song – Milwaukee Rep[51]
- 2014 Breath & Imagination – Cleveland Playhouse[52]
- 2014 The History of Invulnerability – Milwaukee Rep[53]
Fashion and Industrial
- 2013 Connect4Climate / Alcantara, Design Week – Milan, IT[54]
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References
External links
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