Scott Ellis
SCOTT ELLIS (Director) Broadway: Curtains (Tony nomination, Best Direction of a Musical), Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed (Drama League nomination), Twelve Angry Men (Tony, Drama Desk nominations, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards, Best Revival), The Look of Love - the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All the Luck with Chris O'Donnell, The Boys From Syracuse, The Rainmaker with Woody Harrelson and Jayne Atkinson, 1776 (Drama Desk, Tony nomination, Best Director), She Loves Me (Tony nomination; Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Picnic (Outer Critics nomination), Company, A Month in the Country with Helen Mirren, Steel Pier (Tony nomination; Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards). London: She Loves Me (Olivier Award). Off-Broadway: The Understudy, David Rabe's Streamers, Entertaining Mr. Sloane with Alec Baldwin; The Waverly Gallery with Eileen Heckart; The Dog Problem; That Championship Season, Dark Rapture; And the World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); and Flora, the Red Menace (Drama Desk nom). NYC Opera: 110 in the Shade, A Little Night Music with Jeremy Irons and Juliet Stevenson, also with Victor Garber, Judith Ivey and Zoe Caldwell (L.A. Opera). Director/co-conceiver of Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and Great Performances' My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies. For television, he has directed Showtime's Weeds, NBC's 30 Rock (Emmy Nomination, Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series) and Frasier, ABC's Desperate Housewives and Hope & Faith, FOX's Stacked, CBS's Charlie Lawrence and Out of Practice, and TNT's The Closer. A graduate of Chicago Goodman School of Drama, he is the recipient of their 1999 Distinguished Artist Award. He is the Associate Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company. Bio as of December, 2009. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Directors on Directing - February, 2008 - Watch now. Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 1999 - Watch now. Playwright and Director - April, 1995 - Watch now. Downstage Center (audio) Scott Ellis - January, 2010 - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)