ACTING

 

  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.

                                                                          

 

                                                                                                    

 

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