We have created this special news section for those Schwartz fans interested in following the career of director Scott Schwartz (Son of Stephen Schwartz, both pictured above).

From Scott Schwartz, May 24, 2010: (copied from www.musicalschwartz.com with permission)

I’m very excited about a couple of upcoming projects in the fall at excellent regional theaters. I will be directing Neil Simon’s BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BROADWAY BOUND in rep at the Old Globe in San Diego. Performances begin in late September and run through mid-November. After that, I will direct Craig Lucas’ RECKLESS for DENVER THEATER CENTER. Also, my production of BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS, a new musical about Ginger Rogers, is finishing up its successful run at the Asolo Rep in Florida. It will next be seen at Arizona Theater Company in Septermber and October, and then at San Jose Rep around Thanksgiving.
2011

Scott Schwartz will be directing his father’s opera - Seance on a Wet Afternoon for the New York City opera in the spring of 2011. He also directed the premiere production in 2009.

BIOGRAPHY:

Scott Schwartz, a graduate of Harvard University, is best known for his direction of Golda’s Balcony, the one-woman show about Golda Meir starring Tovah Feldshuh (Best Actress, Lucille Lortel Award, Best Solo Performance, Drama Desk Award), that became the longest running one-woman show in Broadway history. He also directed Los Angeles and San Francisco productions of the play, and a national tour starring Valerie Harper (2006 Touring Broadway Award, Best Play.)

Other Broadway credits include the musical Jane Eyre, and The Foreigner starring Matthew Broderick for Roundabout Theater Company in New York. Off-Broadway, Scott directed the musical tick, tick…BOOM! by Jonathan Larson (RENT) for which he received the 2002 Outer Critics Award, Best Off-B’way Musical, Drama Desk Award Nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical. He also helmed Batboy: The Musical (2001 Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award - Best Off-B’way Musical, Drama Desk Award Nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical). He also directed the off-Broadway production of Franz Kafka’s The Castle starring William Atherton for Manhattan Ensemble Theatre (2002 Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination, Best Director of a Play).

His recent regional credits include London and Los Angeles productions of Tick, Tick… Boom! (2006 Independent Theatre Award, Best Director of a musical), Me And My Girl for Goodspeed Opera House (Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Best Direction of a Musical), the national and British touring productions of Godspell, and the musical No Way to Treat a Lady for the York Theatre in Manhattan and the Signature Theatre in Washingon, DC. Other major regional theaters for which Schwartz has directed include the Alley Theater in Houston, the Ahmanson in Los Angeles, the Berkshire Theater Festival, the La Jolla Playhouse, the Prince Theater in Philadelphia, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Studio Arena in Buffalo, TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, and the Virginia Stage Company.

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Director Scott Schwartz