Scott Ebersold is an award-winning theater and film director with a focus on developing new plays by NYC's up-and-coming playwrights. He has developed over 20 plays throughout the past 15 years. Recent original productions include: Children at Play by Jordan Seavey (for Collaboration Town), Nerve by Adam Szymkowicz, Edgar and Patrick by Ken Urban, Paper Cranes by Kari Bentley-Quinn, and The End of Days by Jeffrey James Keyes (Columbia Grad Thesis Project); as well as the silent concerto (Outstanding Director Award, FringeNYC), the october crisis (to laura), marea (at HERE), william bell (at The Metropolitan Theater) and expat/inferno (Best Overall Production Award, FringeNYC) by Alejandro Morales. He has also worked with critically acclaimed downtown performance artist and novelist, Mike Albo on his solo show Mike Albo, Mike Albo (or Just Open Your Throat), which played to sold-out audiences at HERE. Scott also produced and directed two short films and a web-series: The Moment written by Adam Szymkowicz starring Susan Louise O'Connor, which was selected for the 2009 Gotham Film Festival; and Quartet which he wrote and directed; and the web-series Raptured which is currently in post-production.
Scott has developed new plays at the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, The Lark, The 4th Street Theater of New York Theater Workshop, Columbia University, HERE Arts Center, The Living Theater, The Abingdon Theater, The Connelly Theater, The Working Theater, Flux Theater Ensemble, The Hypothetical Theatre Company, INTAR, The Dramatist Guild, The Hudson Valley Writer’s center and New Dramatists, by such playwrights as Anton Dudley, Kenny Finkle, Ken Urban, Crystal Skillman, Mac Wellman, Erin Browne, Michael McKeever, Joan Rosenfels, Gary Sunshine and Stephen Belber, among others.
Selected for an Observership by the Stage Director’s and Choreographer’s Foundation, Scott assisted director Carl Andress on Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die! He also assisted Amy Feinberg on the New York premiere of Melanie Marnich’s Quake, and Trip Cullman on Brooke Berman’s Sam and Lucy at the First Annual Summer Play Festival.
Scott is a founder and Artistic Director of Packawallop Productions, where he has produced plays, films and festivals. He is a Lincoln Center Director's Lab alum; former member of Tectonic Theater Project's Literary Department; and a Directing-Mentor at Tisch School of the Arts Playwright’s Horizons Theater School. Scott received his BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a current MFA-candidate at Columbia University.