TV Exclusive: Meet the 2013 Tony Nominees- DROOD's Scott Ellis on the Thrill of a Sixth Nomination!

By: Jun. 07, 2013
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BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet & Greet on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you Scott Ellis, a nominee for Best Direction of a Musical for The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Check out what he had to say below!

Broadway: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Harvey, Curtains (Tony nom.),The Little Dog Laughed (Drama League nom.), Twelve Angry Men (Tony, DD noms., OCC, DD awards, Best Revival), The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Boys From Syracuse, The Rainmaker,1776 (DD, Tony nom., Best Director), She Loves Me (Tony nom.; DD, OCC awards), Picnic (OCC nom.), Company, A Month in the Country, Steel Pier (Tony nom.; DD, OCC awards). London: She Loves Me (Olivier Award). Off-Broadway: Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Understudy, Streamers; Good Boys and True; Entertaining Mr. Sloane; The Waverly Gallery; The Dog Problem; That Championship Season; Dark Rapture; And the World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb (DD, OCC awards); and Flora, the Red Menace (DD nom). NYC Opera: 110 in the Shade, A Little Night Music (also L.A. Opera). TV: "Weeds" (Executive Producer), "30 Rock" (Emmy nom., Best Director), "Modern Family," "Two Broke Girls," "Frasier," "The Good Wife," "Hung," "The Closer." MR. Ellis is the Associate Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Company.

Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood opened November 13th, 2012 at Studio 54 on Broadway. The show starred Stephanie J. Block, Will Chase, Gregg Edelman, Jim Norton, and Chita Rivera with Andy Karl, Jessie Mueller, Betsy Wolfe, Nicholas Barasch,Peter Benson, and Robert Creighton. Additional cast members include Alison Cimmet, Kyle Coffman, Nick Corley, Janine DiVita, Jenifer Foote, Justin Greer, Shannon Lewis, Spencer Plachy, Kiira Schmidt, Eric Sciotto, Jim Walton.

Click here for the complete list of nominees!



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