Scott Thompson

Scott is an award winning Director/Choreographer whose work has been seen in some of the country's best regional theatres. In his twenty year career he has been fortunate enough to work with some of Broadway's brightest talents in over 80 productions nationwide. In 1996 Scott founded Austin Musical Theatre and served as its Producing Artistic Director for seven seasons. He also founded a highly respected children's performing arts academy while in Austin which currently boasts alumni attending Yale, NYU and a host of young people who have successfully began their careers in the professional theatre. Favorite Directing/Choreography credits include Dames at Sea at the world famous Goodspeed Opera House and at the Marines Memorial Theatre for which he won the prestigious San Francisco theatre critics award as best Director and Choreographer and the Los Angeles Ovation awards for that same production. Scott directed Tony award winner Betty Buckley in Gypsy for the Southern Arizona Light Opera Co., famed country legend Larry Gatlin in The Music Man for Austin Musical Theatre and Tony award winner Cady Huffman from the original cast of The Producers in a critically acclaimed production of Damn Yankees. For the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Scott choreographed a star-studded gala featuring classical recording artist Dawn Upshaw and four time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald. In Los Angeles Scott re-created the Broadway choreography from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at a special gala honoring that show's original choreographer Tommy Tune. Scott has long history with that show having directed Whorehouse three times- in Tucson, Sacramento and finally in the capital of Texas-Austin! Other successful directing projects include Babes in Arms, 42nd Street, Jesus Christ Superstar, Oklahoma!, Oliver, The Sound of Music, Annie, The Pirates of Penzance, The Wizard of Oz, Bye Bye Birdie, My Fair Lady, Sweet Charity, Fiddler on the Roof, Man of Lamancha, Cinderella and A Chorus Line. On the east coast, Scott Directed and Choreographed Grease for the Maine State Music Theatre which became one of the biggest hits in that theatre's history and Anything Goes for the Downtown Cabaret Theatre which was the inaugural production of their brand new performing arts facility. Recently Scott directed a lavish production of Peter Schaffer's brilliant play Amadeus. Presently Scott is directing his fourth production of Gypsy this time for the Gateway Playhouse on Long Island (which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary) and directing a summer musical theatre workshop for advanced high school students at Columbia University in New York where he currently resides. He is hard at work developing several new musical theatre projects and is co-writing a screenplay entitled The Bridesmaid.