Award-winning Stage Director Scott Skiba has led more than 80 new productions, earning recognition for his imaginative stage direction and dynamic physical approach to storytelling that is “masterful…ingenious…first-rate...vivid and emotionally charged."

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For Cleveland Opera Theater Scott has directed La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Le nozze di Figaro, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tosca, La Rondine, Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro, Pagliacci, The Threepenny Opera, 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 World Premiere of La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Griffin Candey with libretto by OBIE Award Winner Caridad Svich a co-commission with Baldwin Wallace Conservatory.

Scott has made multiple company debuts in recent years including Roméo et Juliette for Pensacola Opera, Macbeth for Opera Tampa, The Ballad of Baby Doe  with Toledo Opera, Faust and Il Barbiere di Siviglia  with Natchez Festival of Music, The Student Prince at Opera Grand Rapids, Carmen for Opera Western Reserve, Suor Angelica and La Bohème for Mobile Opera, and Don Giovanni and La Tragédie de Carmen for Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.  Scott is the recently appointed Production Director for Opera Western Reserve.