Directors // Scott Schwartz

On Broadway: GOLDA’S BALCONY and JANE EYRE (co-directed with John Caird).

Off-Broadway credits include: BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle awards, Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), TICK, TICK… BOOM! (OCC Award, Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE, THE FOREIGNER starring Matthew Broderick for
Roundabout Theatre Company, FRANZ KAFKA’S THE CASTLE (OCC nomination, Outstanding Director of a Play), MISS JULIE, and NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY.

He also directed GOLDA’S BALCONY on tour, in London, Los Angeles, and in San
Francisco at A.C.T.

Most recently, he directed LOST IN YONKERS at The Old Globe and the world premiere of SÉANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON, a new opera starring Lauren Flanigan at Opera Santa Barbara. His production of SÉANCE will open at New York City Opera in April of 2011.

Other recent credits include: OTHELLO and MUCH ADO ABOUT at the Alley Theater in Houston; and a new reinvisioning of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS which played at TOTS, Papermill Playhouse, TUTS and North Shore Music Theater (2008 IRNE Award, Outstanding Diretcor of a Musical). Other regional theaters include: Alliance, Asolo, Berkshire Theater Festival, Colorado
Shakespeare Festival, Goodspeed Opera House, La Jolla Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse,
Prince Theater, Signature, Studio Arena, TheatreWorks, Westport County Playhouse.

Upcoming: Neil Simon’s BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BROADWAY BOUND to open The Old Globe’s 75th Anniversary Season, and ARSENIC AND OLD LACE starring Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh at Dallas Theater Center. For radio broadcast, he directed the Grammy-nominated recording of THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE, starring Richard Dreyfus and Marsha Mason, for L.A.
TheatreWorks.

Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and a graduate of Harvard University.