Scott Schwartz is Chief Procurement Officer and Head of Sustaining Engineering at Royal Philips and has seen the company evolve in his eight years with a greater focus on health technology. One company that has developed their model to embrace their strategic partners and give key executives a wider view of conception of products to their end delivery is Philips. It is something easy to say but considerably more difficult to align that strategy with tangible results. Boom! at the Jane Street Theatre (2002 Drama Desk Award Nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), Murder For Two at Second Stage Uptown and subsequently at New World Stages, and Rooms: A Rock Romance also at New World Stages.Companies all over the world are trying to leverage their supplier and procurement ecosystems to give them a competitive advantage in the current marketplace. Schwartz directed the hit off-Broadway musicals Bat Boy: The Musical at the Union Square Theatre (2001 Drama Desk Award Nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical, 2001 Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award - Best Off-B'way Musical), Jonathan Larson's tick, tick. This production began as a world premiere at Opera Santa Barbara, for which he won a Santa Barbara Indy Award as Best Director. He directed Seance on a Wet Afternoon starring Lauren Flanigan at New York City Opera. Feldshuh, and a national tour starring Valerie Harper. He also directed London, Los Angeles and San Francisco productions of the play with Ms. Golda’s Balcony transferred to Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre where it went on to become the longest running one woman show in Broadway history. Schwartz directed Golda’s Balcony, William Gibson’s one woman play about Golda Meir, starring Tovah Feldshuh (Best Actress, Lucille Lortel Award Best Solo Performance, Drama Desk Awards), which enjoyed a successful run at off-Broadway’s Manhattan Ensemble Theatre. For over twenty-five years, he has built a reputation for pursuing and embracing a wide range of works for the stage, from new plays to classics to musicals and opera.
Most recently, he directed the new musical The Prince of Egypt on the West End in London and a newly revised version of the musical Big Fish for CJ ENM in Seoul, Korea. He is also the Artistic Director of the acclaimed Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY. Scott Schwartz is an internationally known artist whose work has been seen on and off Broadway, across the United States, in Great Britain, Europe and Asia. Boom! at the Menier Chocolate Factory starring Neil Patrick Harris and Curvy Widow starring Cybill Shepard at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and the Post Street Theatre in San Francisco.
Other notable credits include: The US Premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse and subsequently in Japan and Germany, the World Premiere of The Prince of Egypt at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and Fredericia Teater in Denmark, the World Premiere of Conviction at Bay Street Theater starring Sarah Paulson and Garret Dillahunt, Shakespeare’s Othello and Much Ado About Nothing and the World Premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against for the Alley Theatre in Houston the new musical A Room With A View and a two play marathon of Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound for the Old Globe in San Diego Arsenic and Old Lace starring Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh for Dallas Theater Center his own adaptation of Willa Cather’s My Antonia which opened at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, CA in April of 2008 and transferred to an extended three month run at Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles The Foreigner starring Matthew Broderick for Roundabout Theatre Company in New York Seven Brides For Seven Brothers in a co-production at Theatre Under the Stars in Houston, Papermill Playhouse in New Jersey, and North Shore Music Theatre in Massachusetts (2008 IRNE Award, Best Director of a Musical) the off-Broadway production of Franz Kafka’s The Castle starring William Atherton for Manhattan Ensemble Theatre (2002 Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination, Best Director of a Play) the London production of tick, tick.
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