MazZa is the image of intellectual grace —Editorial Humor
"...just throwing his hair back seems like a special effect." Bay Windows
THEATER
The Hyperbolist Various/Write The Building Stage, Chicago
What is Love?
The Tiny O of Long Various/Writer Tom Robinson Studio Gallery, Chicago
Man and Variations-- or-- The (redacted) Various/Writer Tom Robinson Studio Gallery
Waiting For Godot Vladimir Theatre Coop, Somerville, MA
Night of the Iguana T. L. Shannon Theatre Coop
XXX Bug/Christy Theatre Coop
The Package Deal Lenny Little Flags, Cambridge
The Decline of the West Jose The Piano Factory, Boston
The Orange Show Lesson Three Boston Playwrights Theatre
Jingo Rue Ryles Jazz Club, Cambridge
Crackpot Notion Pruvil Pitchman Boston Rock Opera
Saturday Afternoon The Mime Catbox Cabaret, Boston
Popcorn Girl Mayor Stilman ICA Theatre, Boston
Eyes The Fool Catbox Cabaret
The Crucible John Proctor Delvena Theatre Co., Boston
Hamlet Claudius Delvena Theatre Co.
The Fine Life Behind Jack X Cantab Lounge, Cambridge
Lesson Three Hooie Lizard Lounge, Cambridge
The Spinning Wheel Eddy Cantab Lounge
Marriage Can Be Murder Sam Mystery Caf, Boston
Gazpacho Rosie The Piano Factory, Boston
A Foreign Affair Goo The Lizard Lounge
Monetary Healing Dennis Armstrong Cantab Lounge
Poof! Daniel Cantab Lounge
Gourmand Shibdee The Burren Pub, Somerville
"Joe Mazza uses a body apparently made of limp spaghetti and rubber-bands..." The Boston Theatre Mirror
FILM
Body Volume (short) Businessman Northwestern University
What Am I Looking At? (short) Randy Studio 22, Chicago
Realization (chapter 4) Dr. Badaswanni Split Pillow, Chicago
My Parents Were Poets (short) The Waiter Picture Park, Boston
Last Night at Eddy's (feature) Crapper Kid Boston Filmworks
Turtle Song (short) The Principal Boston Filmworks
Mermaids (feature) Tony Orion Pictures
"Mazza is a wizard at creating special sound effects." Bay Windows
Commercials/Television
WFNX FM, Boston (TV/commercial) Beck Boston Television
The Discovery Channel (commercial) Napoleon A&E Network, USA
The History Channel (commercial) General Avignon A&E Network, USA
Miller Light (commercial) Photographer Commonwealth Films
Real Stories of the Highway Patrol Dwayne Williams Leap Off Productions
Against the Law Mr. Keen Fox Television
"Always animated and focussed, he's emerging as a buffoon or as a heartthrob...with no lines, he steals our attention by developing a relationship with the lime in his drink." New England Entertainment Digest
Audio/Radio
Have Tools Will Travel (video) Narrator British Nuclear Fuels, UK
Melody FM, London, for the (commercial) Narrator BBC Hippodrome
Radio Absurd Writer/Presenter Talk America Radio Network
Christmas or No? Writer/Presenter Talk America Radio Network
"...Marvellously malleable..." The Boston Theatre Mirror
Print
Model for Together Dating Service, February 1996: Boston and Mademoiselle Magazine
"In his over-the-top mannerisms and lightning comic timing, he suggests the young Robin Williams" Bay Windows
CORPORATE
176 Brook Street (ESL drama) Danny DeMarco Visible Productions
Consumer Value Stores Joe Creative Video Design
Targets of Opportunity Heathrow Commonwealth Films
Hilton Hotels Dean Boston Works
EMCEE/HOST
Seks Bomba CD Release Party, The Linwood Grill, Boston, MA
The Noise 18th Anniversary Party, The Middle East, Cambridge, MA
"Mazzas explosive one-man performance transcends the Black Box the theatre." South End News
OPERA
Taverner Archangel Gabriel Opera Company Boston
Pearl Fishers Island Boy Savoy Opera House
Madama Butterfly Chorus Dir. Sarah Caldwell
"Joe Mazza at times recalls Jim Carey's manic brilliance." South End News
EDUCATION
Emerson College / UMASS Boston/ Theatre
Nantucket Playwrighting Program, Summer 1990
Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Theatre Program, 1987
Young Critics Institute at the Huntington Theater Company, Boston, MA 1985
Voice Lessons with Marian Hartley, 3 years
South Shore Conservatory, Piano Instruction with Gary Fisher, 5 years
Piano Instruction with Olive Mullen, 4 years
SPECIAL SKILLS
Puppet creation and mastering, cartoon character voices and sound effects, impersonations, dialects (various American, British, Scottish, Mexican, French, German, Russian, others), full driver's license.