Scott Ebersold is a theatre director and dramaturg specializing in new plays and musicals and the reinvention of classic texts. His work combines close attention to language with visually driven staging and a particular interest in how an audience encounters a story. His career reflects a longstanding commitment to queer stories and to collaborating with writers whose work centers communities historically marginalized onstage.
Scott developed and directed the Off-Broadway premiere of Max Vernon’s musical The View UpStairs. The production received three Drama Desk Award nominations and two Lucille Lortel Award nominations and earned Scott an AUDELCO/Viv Award nomination for Best Director. His recent work includes the world premiere of Gina Femia’s Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves for Boomerang Theatre Company; Amy Crossman’s The Great Divide at HERE Arts Center; and The Laramie Project at UC Davis, where he served as Granada Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Professor. Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves received the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama.
Other selected directing and development credits include Charles L. Mee’s Imperial Dreams at Classic Stage Company; Briandaniel Oglesby’s Small Steps at Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival; Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors and Dan Marshall’s A Murder of Crows with Boomerang Theatre Company; Jordan Seavey’s Children at Play with CollaborationTown; Adam Szymkowicz’s Rare Birds and Nerve; and Alejandro Morales’s the silent concerto, the october crisis, marea, and expat/inferno. His musical theatre work includes The Peculiar Tale of the Prince of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians at Goodspeed’s Festival of New Musicals, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, The Gifts of the Magi, and Concrete Jungle.
Scott is the Founding Artistic Director of Packawallop Productions and a former Artistic Associate at Classic Stage Company. He has worked in the literary department of Tectonic Theater Project and assisted directors Tina Landau, John Doyle, and Trip Cullman. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. He holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University, where he studied with Anne Bogart.
Website: www.scottebersold.com/