Scott Elmegreen is a playwright, composer, and author based in Chicago and Brooklyn. His work has premiered on Broadway, off-Broadway, and around the world, and has been adapted to film and screen for theatrical release, HBO, and streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
Select shows include Straight (NYTimes Critic's Pick, Theatre Row, Off-Broadway; pub. Dramatic Publishing Company), Expecting (Riverside Studios, London), The Laughing Troll Cafe (Buffalo United Artists, Artie Award Nom. Best New Play), Thucydides (pub. Concord Theatricals), Ghost of John McCain (Soho Playhouse, Off-Broadway), Hip Hop Cinderella (New Victory Theater, Off-Broadway; pub. Musical Theatre International), Ivy+Bean, The Musical (Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway; national tour; pub. Theatrical Rights Worldwide), Ladybug Girl, The Musical (Bay Area Children's Theatre; national tour), Awesome Allie, First Kid Astronaut (Vital Theatre Company, Off-Broadway; pub. Theatrical Rights Worldwide), Vote For Me (Off-Broadway; The TimesCenter; London Theater Workshop), COLLEGE The Musical (pub. Dramatic Publishing Company), and The Magic School Bus (Bay Area Children's Theatre; national tour). He orchestrated S’Wonderful: The New Gershwin Musical (national tour), and wrote the music for Colin Quinn: Long Story Short (Broadway; national tour; HBO), Piled Higher and Deeper, The Movie, and numerous Off-Broadway plays. Under a pseudonym, he writes science fiction novels published by HarperCollins.
At the University of Chicago, Scott teaches musical theater and runs the Musical Theater Cohort, an incubator for new work which since 2021 has fostered 17 student-written musicals into staged productions on campus and across Chicago, NYC, and the UK.