Scott Ebersold is a theatre director who enjoys working collaboratively to develop new plays and musicals, and to reinvent classics. He is known for creating work that celebrates marginalized voices through rich visual landscapes and close attention to text, taking the audience on an unexpected journeys. This winter he will be a Granada Artist in Residence at UC Davis where he will direct The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman. Scott developed and directed the Off-Broadway premiere of Max Vernon’s musical The View UpStairs that was nominated for three Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortell Awards, and for which he was nominated for an Audelco Award for Best Director. Other musicals include: Dan Marshall, Julian and Becca Blackmore’s The Peculiar Tale of the Price of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians (Goodspeed Opera House), Bobby Cronin and Crystal Skillman’s Concrete Jungle (DDM Productions), Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party (Post Theatre Company), The Gifts of the Magi (Tilles Center for the Performing Arts), and NYMF’s Explorers concert at the Signature Center Griffin Theatre. Other plays include: Amy Crossman's The Great Divide (HERE), Briandaniel Oglesby’s Small Steps (Portland Center Stage), Charles L. Mee’s trilogy Imperial Dreams (Classic Stage Company), Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors (Boomerang Theatre Company), Dan Marshall’s A Murder of Crows (Boomerang), Jordan Seavey’s Children at Play (Collaboration Town, The Advocate’s “Top 10 Gay Plays of 2009”), Adam Szymkowicz’s Rare Birds (Red Fern), Anne Carson’s Orestes (Columbia Stages), August Strindberg’s Miss Julie (Smith Street Stage) Joshua Conkel’s America, You Kill Me, Jeffrey James Keyes’s The End of Days, and Ken Urban’s Edgar and Patrick. As artistic director of Packawallop Productions Scott directed many of Alejandro Morales’s plays including: the silent concerto (Outstanding Director Award Winner, FringeNYC), the october crisis, marea (HERE), and expat/inferno (Best Overall Production Award Winner, FringeNYC). He also directed the premieres of Kari Bentley-Quinn’s Paper Cranes and Adam Szymkowicz’s Nerve. At Columbia University Scott directed an updated version of Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day that he developed with Lauren Whitehead (Columbia Stages/Connelly Theater). He also directed Chekov’s Three Sisters and Brecht’s Baal. He co-conceived, developed, and directed a workshop of Lauren Whitehead’s The Play Which Raises the Question of What Happened in Low Income Communities between 1974 - 2004 And Hints at Why Mass Incarceration is Perhaps a Man Made Disease And Highlights the Government’s General Lack of Empathy for Poor People of Color And Dispels the Notion that Our Condition is Our Fault And Helps Make Visible Why We Riot When We Mourn And also Tells the Story of Anita Freeman & her Kids (Catwalk Arts Residency, Judson Memorial Church). He assisted Tina Landau at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and John Doyle on the first major NYC revival of Roger and Hammerstein’s Allegro at Classic Stage Company, as well as Mr. Doyle’s City Center Stage’s revival of Irma La Deuce. He as directed two films;The Moment (Gotham Screen Festival Premiere) and Quartet as well as the pilot for the web-series Raptured. Scott is Founding Artistic Director of Packawallop Productions, Artistic Associate at Classic Stage Company, alum of Lincoln Center Theater’s Director's Lab and the Tectonic Theater’s Literary Department. He holds a BFA in Drama from NYU and an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University.