Steve Scott

Steve Scott is the Associate Producer of the Goodman Theatre, where he has overseen over 150 productions since 1987. His Goodman directing credits include Rabbit Hole,  Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock and No One Will Be Immune for the recent 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 the 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; 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; and the world premiere of Tom Mula and Steve Rashid’s W! for Theatre Wit.  He has directed productions for a variety of other local and regional theatre companies, including Lifeline, National Jewish Theatre, Theater 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 the About Face, Eclipse, and CollaborAction companies and one of six resident directors for WBEZ’s Stories on Stage; he is also a contributor to the recently published Encyclopedia of Chicago.  Mr. Scott is the recipient of an After Dark Award, five Jeff nominations, and the Illinois Theatre Association Award of Honor; as an actor, he most recently appeared in the Next Theatre’s production of Are You Now or Have you Ever Been…? (Jeff Award for Outstanding Ensemble).  Upcoming projects include Blind Date for the Goodman’s Horton Foote Festival, Match for Apple Tree Theatre, Born Yesterday for the American Theatre Company, and Plaza Suite for the Eclipse Theatre.