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"We are curious to see where he takes theater next."
-New York Times 2020
The Washington Post
November 2019
‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ is up to some new and mesmerizing tricks
It’s a mesmerizing marriage of technology and story that echoes the play’s projection-heavy Broadway and West End productions while using Mezzocchi’s distinctive animation to outline a path of its own.
2024 RECENT PRODUCTIONS
SANDRA
Produced at Theaterworks Hartford in May 2024
Written by David Cale || Original Music by Matthew Dean Marsh
Directed by Jared Mezzocchi
Creative Content and Video Design by Camilla Tassi || Scenic by Marcelo Garcia Martinez || Sound Design by Evdoxia Ragkou
Lighting Design by Amith Chandrashaker || Costume Design by Sarita Fellows
Starring Felicia Curry
“Director Jared Mezzocchi directs Sandra with extraordinary style. He fuses words, music, design elements and performance into a taut, balanced, and exciting theatre evening.”
~ Berkshire on Stage
Music video: Perriott and Reverie
Music by DELUNE
Director and Multimedia Design by Jared Mezzocchi
Produced by National Sawdust
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2024 DRAMA DESK NOMINATION
PROJECTION DESIGN, RUSSIAN TROLL FARM
VINEYARD THEATER
2024 LUCILLE LORTEL NOMINATION
PROJECTION DESIGN, POOR YELLA REDNECKS
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB
2024 LUCILLE LORTEL NOMINATION
PROJECTION DESIGN, RUSSIAN TROLL FARM
VINEYARD THEATER
2023 OBIE AWARD
DIRECTION AND MULTIMEDIA DESIGN, RUSSIAN TROLL FARM
THE CIVILIANS, THEATER WORKS HARTFORD, AND THEATRESQUARED
2017 OBIE AWARD
PROJECTION DESIGN, VIETGONE
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB
2017 LUCILLE LORTEL AWARD
PROJECTION DESIGN, VIETGONE
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB
2018 HENRY HEWES AWARD
PROJECTION DESIGN, VIETGONE
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB
2012 RECIPIENT OF THE PRINCESS GRACE AWARD
2017 DRAMA DESK NOMINATION
PROJECTION DESIGN, VIETGONE
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB
2017 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINATION
PROJECTION DESIGN, VIETGONE
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB
2024 COLORADO NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
73 SECONDS, EN GARDE ARTS COMMISSION
2022 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE VINEYARD THEATER AND ENGARDE ARTS (WITH PLAYWRIGHT SARAH GANCHER)
2022 BETHANY ARTS COMMUNITY RESIDENCY
NEW COMMISSIONED WORK WITH SARAH GANCHER
2021 VINEYARD THEATER
MINI-COMMISSION ON THE BEAUTY OF LOSS
2020 MACDOWELL COLONY RESIDENCY
IN SUPPORT OF WRITING BOOK 'A MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER’S METHOD TO THEATRICAL STORYTELLING”
2017 MACDOWELL COLONY RESIDENCY
MULTIMEDIA PLAYWRITING
2023 HELEN HAYES AWARD
OUTSTANDING MEDIA/PROJECTIONS DESIGN, WE DECLARE YOU A TERRORIST
ROUND HOUSE THEATRE
2020 HELEN HAYES NOMINATION
BEST DIRECTOR, CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
(CO-DIRECTOR RYAN RILETTE)
ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY
2019 HELEN HAYES NOMINATION
ORIGINAL ADAPTATION, HOW TO CATCH A STAR
THE KENNEDY CENTER
2015 HELEN HAYES NOMINATION
BEST LIGHTING/PROJECTION DESIGN, THE TOTALITARIANS
WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE COMPANY
2013 DC METRO DANCE AWARD
EXCELLENCE IN MULTIMEDIA, ISADORA IN RUSSIA
WORD DANCE
2020 LA DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE
BEST CGI/VIDEO DESIGN, POOR YELLA REDNECKS
SOUTH COAST REP
2020 NH THEATRE AWARDS, NOMINATION
BEST DIRECTOR, RIPE FRENZY
ANDY’S SUMMER PLAYHOUSE
2015 ELLIOT NORTON AWARD
PROJECTION DESIGN, ASTROBOY
COMPANY ONE THEATER
2015 IRNE AWARD
BEST DESIGN, ASTROBOY
COMPANY ONE THEATER
2011 NH THEATER AWARD
BEST ORIGINAL PLAY, THE LOST WORLD
ANDY’S SUMMER PLAYHOUSE
DIRECTOR
Director
MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER
DESIGNER
CREATOR
CREATOR / PERFORMER
Someone Else’s House.
Live Performance over Zoom. Geffen Playhouse
Written and Performed by Jared Mezzocchi
PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
In 2022, The NH Chronicle profiled Andy's Summer Playhouse describing it as "a theater that inspires young people." See the full profile here
Since 2015, Jared Mezzocchi has been the Producing Artistic Director of Andy’s Summer Playhouse in Wilton, N.H. Andy’s is an innovative children’s theater that brings in nationally-acclaimed professional artists to create original work alongside young artists between the ages of 8-18. Under Mezzocchi’s leadership, Andy's has won several NH Theater Awards, including Best Production (2018) and Best Playwriting (2019), and was recognized with New Hampshire Gov. Christopher Sununu's 2020 Silver Lining Resiliency Award for groundbreaking digital work produced during the pandemic.
Most notably, Mezzocchi eliminated tuition in 2020 (which continues today) and has successfully pivoted the 53-year-old organization into a contributor-only revenue model, focused entirely on grants and donor relations. As a result, for three years in a row, Andy's has clocked the strongest annual revenue in the organization's history.
EDUCATOR
Jared Mezzocchi is an Associate Professor at The University of Maryland, College Park. He teaches in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies within the MFA Design program. Since joining the university in 2012, Mezzocchi developed and launched the curriculum in Projection and Media Design, a program he leads to this day.
In 2020, Mezzocchi co-wrote a successful $9 million dollar proposal for what became the school’s Maya Brin Institute for New Performance, a center for experimentation of interdisciplinary performance and technology.
Mezzocchi is co-director of the Maya Brin Institute, alongside dance faculty member Kendra Portier. Read about it here.
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A University of Maryland news release described the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance as a way "to boldly reimagine the future of education in the performing arts."
ESSAYS
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