Scott Schwartz

Scott Schwartz is the Artistic Director of Bay Street Theater and is an internationally renowned artist whose work has been seen on Broadway, off-Broadway, across the United States, in Great Britain, Europe and Asia.

He directed the Broadway productions of Golda’s Balcony and Jane Eyre (co-directed with John Caird).

His Off-Broadway work includes Bat Boy: The Musical (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), tick, tick…BOOM! (Outer Critics Circle, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), Murder for Two, Kafka’s The Castle (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Outstanding Director of a Play), The Foreigner starring Matthew Broderick, Rooms: A Rock Romance, Gigantic, and No Way to Treat a Lady.

He directed the US premiere of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse and subsequently in Japan, Germany and Austria.

In London, he directed The Prince of Egypt at the Dominion Theatre on the West End, tick… Boom! at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Golda’s Balcony at the Shaw Theatre.

Other recent credits include the new musical The Ghost and the Lady for Shiki Theatre Company in Tokyo, the new musical Double Helix at Bay Street Theater, Séance on a Wet Afternoon starring Lauren Flanigan at New York City Opera; a revised version of the musical Big Fish at the Seoul Arts Center in Seoul, Korea; and the world premiere of The Prince of Egypt at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and Fredericia Teater in Denmark.

Some of the leading American companies he has directed at include Berkshire Theatre Festival, Center Theatre Group, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center, 5th Avenue Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Signature Theatre, and others.

He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and a graduate of Harvard University.