Scott Ebersold is a queer theatre director who specializes in new plays and musicals, and reinventing classics. He developed and directed the Off-Broadway premier of Max Vernon’s new musical The View UpStairs that was nominated for three Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortell Awards, and for which he was nominated for an Audelco Award for Best Director. Other musicals include: Dan Marshall, Becca Blackmore and Julian Blackmore’s The Peculiar Tale of the Price of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians (Goodspeed Opera House), Bobby Cronin and Crystal Skillman’s Concrete Jungle (DDM Productions), Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party (Post Theatre Company), The Gifts of the Magi (Tilles Center for the Performing Arts), and NYMF’s Explorers concert at the Signature Center Griffin Theatre. Other plays include: Briandaniel Oglesby’s Small Steps (Portland Center Stage), Charles L. Mee’s trilogy Imperial Dreams (Classic Stage Company), Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors (Boomerang Theatre Company), Dan Marshall’s A Murder of Crows (Boomerang Theatre Company), Jordan Seavey’s Children at Play (Collaboration Town, The Advocate’s “Top 10 Gay Plays of 2009”), Adam Szymkowicz’s Rare Birds (Red Fern), Anne Carson’s Orestes (Columbia Stages), August Strindberg’s Miss Julie (Smith Street Stage) Joshua Conkel’s America, You Kill Me, Jeffrey James Keyes’s The End of Days, and Ken Urban’s Edgar and Patrick. He co-conceived, developed, and directed a workshop of Lauren Whitehead’s The Play Which Raises the Question of What Happened in Low Income Communities between 1974 – 2004 And Hints at Why Mass Incarceration is Perhaps a Man Made Disease And Highlights the Government’s General Lack of Empathy for Poor People of Color And Dispels the Notion that Our Condition is Our Fault And Helps Make Visible Why We Riot When We Mourn And also Tells the Story of Anita Freeman & her Kids (Catwalk Arts Residency, Judson Memorial Church).
As artistic director of Packawallop Productions Scott worked closely withplaywright Alejandro Morales directing many of his plays including: the silent concerto (Outstanding Director Award Winner, FringeNYC), the october crisis, marea (HERE), and expat/inferno (Best Overall Production Award Winner, FringeNYC). He also directed the premieres of Kari Bentley-Quinn’s Paper Cranes andAdam Szymkowicz’s Nerve. At Columbia University Scott directed an updated version of Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day that he developed with Lauren Whitehead (Columbia Stages/Connelly Theater). He also directed Chekov’s Three Sisters and Brecht’s Baal.
Scott’s devised theatre work includes: Elevation, a multimedia exploration of motherhood and loss, developed with filmmaker Lauren Fritz at The Vineyard Arts Project and The Calmative, created with Murray Bartlett, Sevrin Mason and Dan Stearns, based on the writings of Samual Beckett and Nancy Cunard.
He assisted Tina Landau at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and John Doyle on the first major NYC revival of Roger and Hammerstein’s Allegro at Classic Stage Company, as well as Mr. Doyle’s City Center Stage’s revival of Irma La Deuce.
He has directed two films: The Moment written by Adam Szymkowicz (Gotham Screen Festival Premiere) and Quartet written by Lauren Fritz. He also co-wrote and directed a pilot for a web-series called Raptured.
Scott is Founding Artistic Director of Packawallop Productions, former Artistic Associate at Classic Stage Company, an alum of Lincoln Center Theater’s Director’s Lab and the Tectonic Theater’s Literary Department. He holds a BFA in Drama from New York University and an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University.
Website: www.scottebersold.com/