Steve Scott is the current Artistic Director of the Dunes Arts Foundation, where he has directed past Dunes Summer Theatre productions as The Spitfire Grill, Working 2012, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  For over thirty years Mr. Scott was Producer at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where he oversaw well over 200 productions; he is now an Artistic Associate at the Goodman, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees.

Over the past fifty years Mr. Scott has directed more than 300 productions for theaters across the United States and internationally, including shows at such Chicago theaters as the Goodman, Northlight, Porchlight, Eclipse, Redtwist, and the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.

For twenty years he has been a member of the faculty at the Theatre Conservatory in the College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University; he has also taught at Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, the Theatre School at DePaul University, Loyola University of Chicago and the Latin School of Chicago.  He has served on advisory panels for the National Endowment of the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the Chicago Office of Fine Arts, Pew Charitable Trusts and United States Artists.

For his work, he has received six Joseph Jefferson Award nominations, an After Dark award, Eclipse Theatre’s Corona Award, a special Jefferson Award for career achievement, and the League of Chicago Theatre’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

He currently resides in Long Beach, Indiana, and Chicago.