Biography

Joe Romano is an award-winning New York director known for the 1995 feature film, Niagaravation. He has worked as an actor, as well as a soundtrack composer, most notably for his work with Gato Barbieri on the 1993 film Manhattan by Numbers. Joe also spent decades as an IATSE sound mixer. He worked on films like Ransom, The Real Blonde, Marvin's Room and the Basketball Diaries. He also has done more art-house fare, working alongside Jim Jost on All the Vermeers in New York, for example, as well as traveling extensively for films featuring many world-famous artists, architects, dancers and musicians, from Merideth Monk and Laurie Anderson to Louis Kahn and Kisho Kurokawa, to Elizabeth Streb and Louise Bourgeois. He has also worked on many seasons of episodic television shows like Law and Order, Sex and the City, Saturday Night Live, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, New York Undercover and Swift Justice as well as news shows like 60 Minutes, and 20/20. Concert films with Bob Dylan and Robyn Hitchcock, music videos with a repertoire of artists like Diana Ross, Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes, as well as a range of high profile commercials for clients like Calvin Klein, Lexus, Karl Lagerfeld, and Clairol round out his extensive range of industry credits.
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