THE SANTALAND DIARIES CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
JOE MANTELLO
Adaptor
Directing credits include Assassins
(Tony Award); Wicked; Take Me Out
(Tony Award); Frankie and Johnny
in the Clair De Lune; A Man of No
Importance; Design for Living; Terrence
McNally and Jake Heggie’s Dead
Man Walking for the San Francisco
Opera; The Vagina Monologues; Bash;
Another American: Asking and Telling;
Love! Valour! Compassion!; Proposals;
The Mineola Twins; Corpus Christi;
Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks; Blue
Window; God’s Heart; The Santaland
Diaries; Lillian; Snakebit; Three Hotels;
Imagining Brad; and Fat Men in Skirts.
Mr. Mantello also directed the film
Love! Valour! Compassion!. As an actor
he appeared in Angels in America
(Tony nomination) and The Baltimore
Waltz. He is the recipient of the Outer
Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille
Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent,
Obie, and Joe A. Callaway awards.
He is a member of Naked Angels and
an associate artist at the Roundabout
Theatre Company.
Vinegar Tom and Naomi Wallace’s The
Trestle at Pope Lick Creek. She recently
directed Berlin to Broadway for Skylark
Opera. Other regional credits include:
the Guthrie Theater, Syracuse Stage,
Berkshire Theatre Festival, Vermont
Ensemble Theatre and Intiman Theatre.
She has served as a guest director
at many colleges and universities,
most recently directing Brecht’s The
Good Person Setzuan for Vanderbilt
University in Nashville. She has also
worked as a teaching artist for the
Perpich Center for Arts Education and
in the Children’s Theatre Company’s
Neighborhood Bridges program. She
was affiliated for ten years with Kulture
Klub Collaborative, an arts-based
organization that connects homeless
teens with artists as role models. Knox
was a Fulbright Fellow in Finland
and she holds an M.F.A. in Directing
from the University of Washington.
Her work has been recognized by the
McKnight Foundation with fellowships
for outstanding work by professional
artists, the Minnesota State Arts Board
and the Jerome Foundation.
WENDY KNOX
Director
JESSICA FORD
Scenic and Costume Designer
Wendy is the artistic director of the
Frank Theatre in Minneapolis, which
is celebrating its 26th anniversary this
year. Credits include: George Brant’s
Grounded; The Threepenny Opera;
Enda Walsh’s The New Electric and
Misterman (which garnered an Ivey
Award); Jordan \