Scott Edmiston
Scott Edmiston is the recipient of the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence for his theatrical work over the past 27 years. He has directed more than 70 productions at theaters including the Central Square Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Umbrella Stage Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Lyric Stage, and the Huntington Theatre where he was an artistic associate. Six of his productions have been honored with the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production or Musical: CST’s Constellations, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, My Fair Lady, A Marvelous Party, Miss Witherspoon, and Five by Tenn. Edmiston is well known for his direction of American classics such as Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Little Foxes, Anna Christie, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and To Kill a Mockingbird. He has directed more than 25 New England premieres, most recently The Minutes by Tracey Letts and The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa Fasthorse. Awards include the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director for My Fair Lady, The History Boys, The Light in the Piazza, Five by Tenn, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Casa Valentina, and Molly Sweeney; Penn State’s Distinguished Alumni Award; and the StageSource Theatre Hero Award. He teaches acting and dramatic literature at Berklee and previously served as Dean of Theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.