Scott Edmiston
Director
Brandeis Office of the Arts

Scott Edmiston has been called “one of  Boston  finest directors…who has played a crucial part of the rise in local theater” (The Boston Globe). He has directed for theatre companies across the region including  the American Repertory Theatre, Opera Boston, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, SpeakEasy Stage Company, New Repertory Theatre,  Nora Theatre, Gloucester Stage, and the Huntington Theatre Company where he was the Artistic Associate for six years.

In 2004, Mr. Edmiston directed the  first new  U.S. staging of  John Adams’ Nixon in China since 1987 which was hailed as “musically deft and deeply touching” by The New York Times. He received a 2009 Elliot Norton Award for his direction of The Light in the Piazza, The History Boys, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Piazza and History Boys were also honored with nine Independent Reviewers of New England Awards including Best Play, Best Musical, and Best Director of a Musical.  In 2006 he created and premiered Five by Tenn, an original compilation of newly discovered Tennessee Williams plays that was honored with five Elliot Norton Awards including Outstanding Director and Production.  Among his more than 50 New England productions are L’etoile, Private Lives, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well, Reckless, Happy Days, Dinner with Friends, A Marvelous Party: The Noel Coward Celebration (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Musical Production), Miss Witherspoon (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production), The Women (IRNE Award for Best Director and Play), Betrayal (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production), and Molly Sweeney (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director). Upcoming projects include Sunday in the Park with George, In the Next Room, and My Name is Asher Lev.

Mr. Edmiston is  currently the Director of the Office of the Arts at  Brandeis   University where he sponsors the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts and Trouble in Tahiti; premiered in 1952.