Jared Mezzocchi is a two-time OBIE Award-winning theater artist as a director, multimedia designer, playwright, and actor. Mezzocchi’s work has appeared at notable theaters nationwide, including The Kennedy Center, Geffen Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth (company member), Manhattan Theater Club, Vineyard Theater, En Garde Arts, HERE Arts, Portland Centerstage, South Coast Rep, and many more. In 2016, he received his first OBIE, Lucille Lortel and Henry Hewes Award for his work in Qui Nguyen’s “Vietgone” at the Manhattan Theatre Club. In 2020, the New York Times spotlighted his innovations alongside four other theater artists, including Andrew Lloyd Webber and Paula Vogel. His directorial work on Sarah Gancher’s live-digital production “Russian Troll Farm” was also celebrated as a New York Times critic pick, praised for being one of the first digitally native successes for virtual theater, and earned Mezzocchi his second OBIE. Currently, Mezzocchi is directing SANDRA, by David Cale, at Theaterworks Hartford and is an artist-in-residence at Vineyard Theater, where he is co-creating, with playwright Sarah Gancher, an immersive performance set in two simultaneous locations in Redhook Brooklyn: a barge museum and historic Sunny’s Bar.
Mezzocchi is a two-time Macdowell Artist Fellow, a 2012 Princess Grace winner, and an Associate Professor at The University of Maryland, where he created the curriculum for the multimedia track within the MFA Design program, and returns to his home state of NH every summer as Producing Artistic Director of Andy’s Summer Playhouse, an innovative children’s theater producing original work by professional artists from across the country.
