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

Biography

Ellis graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University, Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) in Chicago."Scot Ellis"
pbs.org, accessed June 7, 2013 He also graduated from Robinson Secondary School, James W. Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax, VA, in 1975. He studied acting at HB Studio in New York City. Ellis has a twin brother named Mark Ellis (lawyer), Mark Ellis, who is the Executive Director of the International Bar Association. 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 (musical), The Rink'' with Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera. He has directed numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway theatre, Broadway productions, as well as the New York City Opera, 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. He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Director nine times: the revival of ''She Loves Me'' (1994), ''Steel Pier'' (1997), the revival of ''1776 (musical), 1776'' (1998), ''Twelve Angry Men (play), Twelve Angry Men'' (2005), ''Curtains (musical), Curtains'' (2007), the revival of ''Drood (musical), The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' (2013), the revival of ''You Can't Take It with You (play), You Can't Take It with You'' (2015), another revival of ''She Loves Me'' (2016), and ''Tootsie (musical), Tootsie'' (2019). He received the 1991 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Musical, for ''And The World Goes Round''. He won the Olivier Award as Best Director, Musical, for ''She Loves Me''. He was 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''. He received an Emmy Award nomination in 2007 for directing the episode "The Break Up (30 Rock episode), The Break Up" of the comedy series ''30 Rock''. In 2010, ''Playbill'' announced that Ellis was expected to direct upcoming musical adaptations of the 1930 in film, 1930s films ''The Blue Angel'' and ''Little Miss Marker''. Both would have books by David Thompson (writer), David Thompson.Robert Simonson
"Scottsboro Librettist David Thompson Working on New Musicals With Stew, Scott Ellis"
''Playbill'', date: April 1, 2010 accessed: March 8, 2016

Work

Stage

*''Musical Chairs'' (1980) (as an actor) *''The Rink (musical), The Rink'' (1984) (as an actor) *''Billy Bishop Goes to War'' (1987) (as an actor, Whole Theatre Co.) *''And the World Goes 'Round'' (1991) *''She Loves Me'' (1993) *''A Month in the Country (play), A Month in the Country'' (1995) starring Helen Mirren *''Steel Pier (musical), Steel Pier'' (1997) *''1776 (musical), 1776'' (1997) *''Present Laughter'' (1998) *''The Rainmaker (play), The Rainmaker'' (1999) *''The Man Who Had All the Luck'' (2002) *''The Boys from Syracuse'' (2002) *''Twelve Angry Men (play), Twelve Angry Men'' (2004) *''The Little Dog Laughed (play), The Little Dog Laughed'' (2006) *''Curtains (musical), Curtains'' (2007) *''Gruesome Playground Injuries (play), Gruesome Playground Injuries'' (2011) *''Harvey (play), Harvey'' (2012) *''Drood (musical), The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' (2012) *''You Can't Take It with You (play), You Can't Take It with You'' (2014) *''The Elephant Man (play), The Elephant Man'' (2014) starring Bradley Cooper *''On the Twentieth Century'' (2015) *''She Loves Me'' (2016) *''Kiss Me, Kate'' (2019) *''Tootsie (musical), Tootsie'' (2019) *''Take Me Out (play), Take Me Out'' (2022)

Television

*''Frasier'' (2000–04) *''Hope & Faith'' (2005–06) *''Out of Practice'' (2005) *''Stacked'' (2005) *''30 Rock'' (2006) *''Desperate Housewives'' (2008) *''Weeds (TV series), Weeds'' (2008–11) *''Hung (TV series), Hung'' (2009) *''The Good Wife'' episode "Home" (2009) *''Nurse Jackie'' (2009) *''Running Wilde'' (2010) *''Modern Family'' (2010–11) *''Mad Love (TV series), Mad Love'' (2011) *''2 Broke Girls'' (2011–13) *''Guys with Kids'' (2012) *''The New Normal (TV series), The New Normal'' (2012–13) *''The Michael J. Fox Show'' (2013–14) *''Dads (2013 TV series), Dads'' episode: "Comic Book Issues" (2013) *''Us & Them'' episode: "Upstairs & Downstairs" (2014) *''Mixology'' episode: "Dominic & Stacey" (2014) *''Undateable'' (2014) *''One Big Happy (TV series), One Big Happy'' episode: "Pilot" (2015) *''Dr. Ken'' (2015–16) *''Superior Donuts (TV series), Superior Donuts'' (2017) *''The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'' (2017–18) *''A Christmas Story Live!'' (2017) *''Divorce (TV series), Divorce'' (2018) *''Fam (TV series), Fam'' (2019) *''Carol's Second Act'' (2019–20) *''All Rise (TV series), All Rise'' episode: "What The Bailiff Saw" (2020) *''Tommy (TV series), Tommy'' episode: "Cause of Death" (2020)

References

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"PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Scott Ellis" by Ernio Hernandez, Playbill.com, January 26, 2006Ellis Bio American Theatre Wing

Notes

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ellis, Scott 1957 births American musical theatre directors American television directors American television producers Drama Desk Award winners Living people People from Washington, D.C. Robinson Secondary School alumni