Jared Mezzocchi
Associate Professor, Dance/Theatre Design and Production and Associate Director of the School, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
College of Arts and Humanities
Expertise
Arts and Culture
English
Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies
Language Proficiency
english
Jared Mezzocchi is a multimedia director and designer for theater. He received his MFA through Brooklyn College's Performance and Interactive Media Arts. He was awarded a Princess Grace Award in 2013 as the first projections designer to receive the honor. He designed productions in New York City with 3-Legged Dog (Downtown Loop, SpyGarbo), Baryshnikov Arts Center (Robert Wilson’s On The Beach), HereArts (You Are Dead. You Are Here.), Builders Association (Jet Lag 2011), Rob Roth (Screen Test), and toured nationally/ internationally with Big Art Group (SOS, The Sleep, The People). He has designed for Center Stage (Stones in his Pockets), Cleveland Playhouse (Breath and Imagination), Milwaukee Rep (History of Invulnerability, The Mountaintop), and CompanyONE (Astroboy and The God Of Comics). In D.C., he designed for Woolly Mammoth (Totalitarians, Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety), Synetic Theater (A Trip to the Moon), Theater J (Race, Yellowface) and Studio (Astroboy and The God Of Comics). In 2011, he won Best Original Play at the New Hampshire Theater Awards for writing/direction in The Lost World. Outside of theater, Jared co-designed with Guilio Cappellini for Design Week in Milan, Italy, for Connect4Climate and Alcantara, and designed the entrance/immersive experience for Surf Museum in Montauk, N.Y.
In the News
HowlRound Theatre
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The New York Times
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Washington Post
Best Theater of 2020
Washington Post
‘Russian Troll Farm’ Review: Clock In, Undermine Democracy, Clock Out
American Theatre
She Kills (Virtual) Monsters
Washington Post
How do you do live theater in a pandemic? U-Md. experiments with Zoom-staged version of ‘She Kills Monsters’
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