Award-winning Stage Director, Producer, Administrator, and Educator Scott Skiba continues to earn recognition for his imaginative stage direction and dynamic physical approach to storytelling that is “masterful…ingenious…first-rate...vivid and emotionally charged."  Scott has led more than 115 new productions with professional opera companies, international performing arts festivals, and graduate and undergraduate institutions.  His work is recognized with numerous awards including The American Prize in Opera Performance, The American Prize in Directing - The Charles Nelson Reilly Prize, 1st Place Awards in the National Opera Association Collegiate Production Competition, and the Award for Digital Excellence in Opera from Opera America.

Scott serves as Executive Artistic Director of Cleveland Opera Theater where his production of La Traviata was named “the best professional opera production Cleveland has seen in years.” Additional credits for the company include new productions of La Bohème - hailed as “Ingenious and talent rich” by the Plain Dealer, Madama Butterfly, Le nozze di Figaro, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tosca, La Rondine, Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro, Pagliacci, The Threepenny Opera. and the Cleveland premiere of Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire’s The Ghosts of Gatsby for The National Opera Association in a co-production with Baldwin Wallace Conservatory and The Music Box Supper Club. 

Scott is the recently appointed Production Director for Opera Western Reserve., and has made multiple company debuts in recent years including Jake Heggie’s Two Remain (Lyric Opera of Orange County) Sweeney Todd (Helena Symphony Orchestra), Don Giovanni (Indianapolis Opera), Roméo et Juliette (Pensacola Opera), Macbeth (Opera Tampa), The Ballad of Baby Doe (Toledo Opera), Faust and Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Natchez Festival of Music), The Student Prince (Opera Grand Rapids), Carmen (Opera Western Reserve), Suor Angelica and La Bohème (Mobile Opera), Don Giovanni, Carmen, Orpheus in The Underworld, Into The Woods, and L’incoronazione di Poppea (Hawaii Performing Arts Festival)