Scott Ellis

For other people named Scott Ellis, see Scott Ellis (disambiguation).

Scott Ellis
Born	(1957-04-19) April 19, 1957 Washington, DC, United States
Occupation	Director, executive producer, actor
Years active	1980–present

Scott Ellis (born April 19, 1957) is an American stage director, actor, and television director.

Biography

Ellis graduated from the Chicago Goodman School of Drama.^[1] He also graduated from James W. Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax, VA, in 1975. Ellis has a twin brother named Mark, who is an attorney.

Before he became a director, Ellis was a successful stage actor; he performed on Broadway in the original casts of the 1980 original musical "Musical Chairs", and The Rink with Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera.^[2]^[3]

He has directed numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway productions, as well as the New York City Opera Company revivals at the New York State Theater: A Little Night Music (1990) and 110 in the Shade (1992).

Ellis has been the Associate Artistic Director for the Roundabout Theatre since 1998.^[4]

He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Director seven times: the revival of She Loves Me (1994), Steel Pier (1997), the revival of 1776 (1998), Twelve Angry Men (2005), Curtains (2007), the revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2013), and the revival of You Can't Take It with You (2015). He received the 1991 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Musical, for And The World Goes Round.

He is the Executive Producer for the television drama Weeds on Showtime, and has directed television episodes of Modern Family, Nurse Jackie, The Good Wife, Hung, 30 Rock, Desperate Housewives, The Closer and Frasier.^[1] He received an Emmy Award nomination in 2007 for directing the episode "The Break Up" of the comedy series 30 Rock.

In 2010, Playbill announced that Ellis is expected to direct upcoming musical adaptations of the 1930s films The Blue Angel and Little Miss Marker. Both will have books by David Thompson.^[5]

Work

Stage

She Loves Me (2016)
On the Twentieth Century (2015)
The Elephant Man (2014) starring Bradley Cooper
You Can't Take It with You (2014)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012)
Harvey (2012)
Curtains (2007)
The Little Dog Laughed (2006)
Twelve Angry Men (2004)
The Boys from Syracuse (2002)
The Man Who Had All the Luck (2002)
The Rainmaker (1999)
Present Laughter (1998)
1776 (1997)
Steel Pier (1997)
A Month in the Country starring Helen Mirren
She Loves Me (1993)
And The World Goes 'Round (1991)
The Rink (1984) (as an actor)
Musical Chairs (1980) (as an actor)

Television

30 Rock (2006)
Hope & Faith (2005–2006)
Out of Practice (2005)
Stacked (2005)
Frasier (2000–2004)
Desperate Housewives (2008)
Weeds (2009)
Hung (2009)
The Good Wife episode "Home" (2009)^[6]
Modern Family (2009)

References

"Scott Ellis Biography". filmreference. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
Ernio Hernandez (26 January 2006). "Brief Encounter with Scott Ellis". Playbill. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
Ellis Bio American Theatre Wing

Notes

1 2 "Scot Ellis" pbs.org, accessed June 7, 2013
↑ Ellis Nassour. "Scott Ellis Is an Actor's Director". Playbill date: November 19 2008 accessed: March 8 2016
↑ Scott Ellis at the Internet Broadway Database
↑ "Scott Ellis Takes a New Roundabout Post" The New York Times (webcache), September 4, 1998
↑ Robert Simonson. "Scottsboro Librettist David Thompson Working on New Musicals With Stew, Scott Ellis". Playbill, date: April 1, 2010 accessed: March 8 2016
↑ Scott Ellis (director), Dee Johnson (writer) (2009-10-06). "Home". The Good Wife. Season 1. Episode 3. CBS.

External links

Scott Ellis at the Internet Broadway Database
Scott Ellis at the Internet Movie Database

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director (1976–2000)

Jonathan Miller (1976) Clifford Williams (1977) Terry Hands (1978) Michael Bogdanov (1979) Trevor Nunn / John Caird (1980) Peter Wood (1981) Richard Eyre (1982) Terry Hands (1983) Christopher Morahan (1984) Bill Bryden (1985) Bill Alexander (1986) Declan Donnellan (1987) Deborah Warner (1988) Michael Bogdanov (1989/1990) Richard Jones (m)/David Thacker (p) (1991) Simon Callow (m)/Deborah Warner (p) (1992) Nicholas Hytner (m)/Stephen Daldry (p) (1993) Declan Donnellan (m)/Stephen Daldry (p) (1994) Scott Ellis (m)/Declan Donnellan (p) (1995) Trevor Nunn (1995) Sam Mendes (1996) Des McAnuff (1997) Richard Eyre (1998) Howard Davies (1999) Trevor Nunn (2000)

Complete list (play, 1991–1995) (musical, 1991–1995) (1976–2000) (2001–2025) Separate awards for play and musical between 1991 and 1995 depicted by (p) and (m)

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical

Arthur Laurents (1975)
Michael Bennett (1976)
Martin Charnin (1977)
Peter Masterson and Tommy Tune (1978)
Harold Prince (1979)
Harold Prince (1980)
Wilford Leach (1981)
Tommy Tune (1982)
George Abbott (1983)
James Lapine (1984)
Wilford Leach (1986)
Mike Ockrent (1987)
Harold Prince (1988)
Tommy Tune (1990)
Scott Ellis (1991)
Jerry Zaks (1992)
Des McAnuff (1993)
Nicholas Hytner (1994)
Harold Prince (1995)
Christopher Renshaw (1996)
Walter Bobbie (1997)
Julie Taymor (1998)
Matthew Bourne (1999)
Michael Blakemore (2000)
Susan Stroman (2001)
Michael Mayer (2002)
Jack O'Brien (2003)
Joe Mantello (2004)
James Lapine (2005)
John Doyle (2006)
Michael Mayer (2007)
Bartlett Sher (2008)
Stephen Daldry (2009)
Michael Mayer (2010)
Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker (2011)
John Tiffany (2012)
Diane Paulus (2013)
Darko Tresnjak (2014)
Thomas Kail (2015)
John Doyle / Bartlett Sher (2016)

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