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  • Shakespeare in Performance, Roosevelt University
  • Associate Producer, The Goodman Theatre

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Steve Scott

Steve Scott is the Associate Producer of Goodman Theatre, where he has overseen more than 150 productions; he is also a member of 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 Buried Child and Dealer’s Choice for Shattered Globe Theatre; Yohen for Silk Road Theatre Company; Frozen for The Next Theatre Company; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing for the St. Lawrence (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival; The Teapot Scandals of 1923 and Falsettos for Porchlight Theatre; Ah, Wilderness!, 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); and a number of productions for the Eclipse Theatre (where he is an ensemble member), including Rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl, Keith Reddin’s Big Time, Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, and Lanford Wilson’s The Moonshot Tapes.  He has directed for a variety of other companies, including Theatre Wit, the Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, National Jewish Theatre, Theater at the Center, Lifeline Theatre, Organic Touchstone Theatre, and the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.  Mr. Scott has served on panels for the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the Chicago Council on Fine Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pew Charitable Trust/Philadelphia Theatre Initiative.  He is a member of the Jeff Committee’s Artist and Technical Team, a board member of Season of Concern, and an associate artist with About Face, Chicago Dramatists, and Colllaboraction Theatre companies.  He was one of six resident directors for WBEZ’s series Stories on Stage, and has contributed articles to a variety of publications, including the Enclopedia of Chicago.  Mr. Scott is the recipient of five Jeff nominations, an After Dark Award, and the Illinois Theatre Association’s Award of Honor.  As an actor, he most recently appeared in The Next Theatre’s production of Are You Now or Have You EverBeen…?  (Jeff Award for Outstanding Ensemble).  Current directing projects include Six Degrees of Separation for Eclipse and The DNA Trail Project for Silk Road.