Steve Scott
STEVE SCOTT is the associate producer of Goodman Theatre, where he has overseen more than 150 productions since 1987; he was also recently made a member of the Goodman’s Artistic Collective. His Goodman directing credits include Horton Foote's Blind Date; Rabbit Hole; Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock and No One Will Be Immune for the David Mamet Festival; Dinner with Friends; Wit; the world premiere of Tom Mula’s Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (co-directed with Michael Maggio) and four seasons of A Christmas Carol.
Other recent directing credits include Frozen for Next Theatre Company; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing for the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival in Ontario; The Teapot Scandals of 1923 and Falsettos for Porchlight Theatre; Communicating Doors for Buffalo Theatre Ensemble; Dealer’s Choice for Shattered Globe Theatre; Stones in His Pockets at Apple Tree Theatre; Josephine Tonight for Theatre Building Chicago; God’s Country and Judgment at Nuremberg for the Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University’s College of Performing Arts, where he is a faculty member; Rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl, Lanford Wilson’s The Moonshot Tapes and Keith Reddin’s Big Time for Eclipse Theatre Company; and the world premiere of Tom Mula and Steve Rashid’s W! for Theater Wit.
He has directed productions for a variety of other local and regional theater companies, including Lifeline Theatre, National Jewish Theatre, Theatre at the Center, Organic Touchstone and the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. Mr. Scott has served on advisory panels for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the Chicago Office of Fine Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Charitable Trust/Philadelphia Theatre Initiative; and currently serves as an NEA site evaluator, a board member for Season of Concern and a member of the Jeff Committee’s Artistic and Technical Team.
He is an artistic associate of About Face Theatre, Eclipse Theatre Company and Collaboraction and one of six resident directors for WBEZ’s Stories on Stage; he is also a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Chicago. Mr. Scott is the recipient of an After Dark Award, five Jeff Award nominations and the Illinois Theatre Association Award of Honor; as an actor, he most recently appeared in the Next Theatre Company’s production of Are You Now or Have You Ever Been…? (Jeff Award for Outstanding Ensemble).