Jared Mezzocchi
Jared Mezzocchi is an American theatre projection designer and director.
In 2017, Mezzocchi won an Obie Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, a Henry Hewes Award, and an Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award nomination for his work on Qui Nguyen's Vietgone at the Manhattan Theatre Club. In recognition of his work with the HERE Arts Center in New York City in 2012, Mezzocchi became the first projection designer to receive a Princess Grace Award in theatre. In 2011, Mezzocchi won the Best Original Playwright award at the New Hampshire Theater Awards. He has collaborated with theatre companies in the U.S. and Europe, including Big Art Group, The Builders Association, 3-Legged Dog, Arena Stage, Studio Theater, Theater J, Center Stage, Olney Theatre Center, Everyman Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Wilma Theater. Currently, he teaches projection design at University of Maryland in Washington, D.C. and serves as Artistic Director of Andy's Summer Playhouse, a youth theatre in Wilton, NHAwards
- 2020 Helen Hayes Award Nomination - Outstanding Direction, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- 2019 Helen Hayes Award Nomination - Outstanding Original Play Adaptation, How To Catch A Star
- 2017 Henry Hewes Design Award - Projection Design, Vietgone
- 2017 Obie Award - Projection Designer
- 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards - Projection Design, Vietgone
- 2017 Drama Desk Award - Projection Design, Vietgone
- 2017 Outer Critics Circle Award - Projection Design, Vietgone
- 2017 Macdowell Colony Fellow
- 2015 Helen Hayes Award - Outstanding Lighting Design, Totalitarians
- 2015 Elliot Norton Awards - Outstanding Design, Astroboy and the God of Comics
- 2015 IRNE Awards - Best Projections, Astroboy and the God of Comics
- 2013 Dance Metro DC Award - Excellence in Stage Design/Multimedia, ISADORA IN RUSSIA
- 2012 Princess Grace Awards - HERE Arts Center
- 2011 NH Theatre Awards - Best Original Playwright - The Lost World
Notable Work
Off-Broadway Design
