​​A proponent of new opera, Scott launched {NOW} Fest, Cleveland Opera Theater's annual festival to create, develop, and produce new opera, he serves on the Chamber Opera Composition Committee for the National Opera Association, and has collaborated on the development of 18 new operas.  A pioneer in exploring contemporary approaches to producing opera, Scott's work includes directing and producing interdisciplinary collaborations in alternative and site-specific venues to promote immersive gateway experiences to engage the community and new audiences.  Such projects include the professional premiere of Griffin Candey’s Sweets By Kate, which was produced by Marble City Opera and performed in Sugar Mama's Bakery in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, and Dominick Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night for Opera Western Reserve produced in the historic Stambaugh Auditorium Anne Christman Memorial Hall.

 

Scott helped create and produced / directed “The New Opera Project,” which developed and premiered six Micro-Operas in collaboration with Interlochen Arts Academy, Parallel 45 Theatre Company, and Inside Out Gallery in Traverse City, Michigan. Scott was the visionary who led the iLyric project - an installation of nine different operas throughout the historic piazze of Arezzo, Italy in collaboration with the ICASTICA Festival and the city of Arezzo, Italy.  In June 2022 Scott led the world Premiere production La Casa de Bernarda Alba, the new opera by Griffin Candey with libretto by OBIE Award-winner Caridad Svich. Based on Garcia Lorca's last play of the same name, this opera with an all-female cast and bi-language Spanish/English libretto.  This work was a co-commission by Baldwin Wallace and Cleveland Opera Theater spearheaded by Scott beginning in 2016. 

 

A leader in innovative projects to continue artistic collaboration during the pandemic, Scott devised and directed multiple projects that embraced the realities and intersections of remote collaboration, contemporary technology, and traditional artistic values including: mounting Händel’s Alcina outdoors on the steps of Baldwin Wallace Conservatory; Opera ON DEMAND for the Curtis Institute of Music, incorporating green screen, video, and audio technology and remote collaboration; A Taste of Traviata a cinematic production adaptation of La Traviata for Opera Western Reserve filmed on site at the historic Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown, Ohio, and  Romeo + Juliet, a reimagined telling of Shakespeare’s play and Gounod’s opera with Opera Western Reserve.  The largest of these undertakings, Operas in Place won the 2022 Award for Digital Excellence in Opera from Opera America. This project commissioned nine new short-length “micro operas” in collaboration with Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, Cleveland Opera Theater, and On Site Opera in NYC.  For this project, 17 World-renowned composers and librettists including Griffin Candey, Kermit Cole, David Cote, Lisa DeSpain, Jerre Dye, Jake Heggie, Sarah Labrie, Libby Larsen, Caroline V. McGraw, Nkeiru Okoye, Rachel Peters, Kamala Sankaram, Dawn Sonntag, Gene Scheer, Josh Schmidt, Michi Wiancko, and Royce Vavrek composed micro-operas for Baldwin Wallace Voice Performance Students that premiered in a virtual event February 2022 and still accessible at BWVP.org.

 

An advocate of arts education, Scott serves as Theater Instructor/Stage Director, for the WNO Opera Institute summer training program for high school singers for Washington National Opera, Assistant Artistic Director for Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and Acting Instructor for Jennifer Rowley’s Boot Camp. Under Scott’s leadership as Director of Opera Studies for Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Performing Arts, Baldwin Wallace Opera has won multiple national awards and developed collaborative partnerships throughout Greater Cleveland including Playhouse Square, The Cleveland Museum Of Art, The Cleveland Arcade, Red Space, The Music Box Supper Club, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and The Maltz Center for Performing Arts.  Scott had directed numerous productions including the collegiate premiere of Kamala Sankaram and Jerre Dye’s Taking Up Serpents, Nkeiru Okoye and David Cote’s We’ve Got Our Eye On You (2022-23 NOA 1st Place Award Winner), the regional premiere of Michael Ching and Dean Anthony’s Speed Dating Tonight! (2024-25 NOA 1st Place Award Winner) in collaboration with Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Opera Theater and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Pelléas + Mélisande (winner of The American Prize for Opera Performance, and The Charles Nelson Reilly Prize in Stage Direction for Scott’s  new translation, adaptation, and concept), and The Dialogues of the Carmelites (1st Place NOA Collegiate Opera Production Competition).  Previous appointments include Executive Director of the Oberlin in Italy training program and Arezzo Opera Festival, Instructor of Voice and Opera Theater, Interlochen Arts Academy; Production Designer, East Carolina University Opera Theater; and Associate Instructor of Voice, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.   

 

Scott is a frequent guest master class and workshop teacher throughout the United States and in Europe. In addition to his ongoing leadership as Director of Opera Studies for Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, Scott served as Visiting Professor of Opera Theater at Oberlin Conservatory (spring 2026) where he directed John Musto and Mark Campbell’s operas Later That Same Evening and Bastianello, and Interim Director of Opera for the University of Tennessee for the 2024-25 Academic Year where he directed Il Matrimonio Segreto and Dialogues des Carmélites.  Additional university directing credits include Tobermory, Trouble in Tahiti, and Roman Fever for Oberlin Opera Theater, Serse and La finta giardiniera for Oberlin in Italy, The Crucible, and Falstaff for Martina Arroyo's Role Preparation Program at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, La Finta Giardiniera with University of Tennessee Opera Theater, Carmen (in Spanish Language translation) for the University of Texas at Rio Grand Valley, The Dialogues of the Carmelites Penn State Opera Theatre, and The Pirates of Penzance, Dido & Aeneas, The Spider and Orpheus in The Underworld for Interlochen Opera Theater.  An active National Opera Association (NOA) member since 2016, Scott served as local host for the 2020 “Opera Rocks” National Conference in Cleveland, OH; assisted in overhauling the Collegiate Opera Competition process and created the Google-based form for transition to the online application protocol.  He has presented in NOA plenary sessions and presentations at NOA conferences in Santa Barbara, Salt Lake City and Cleveland; has received multiple awards in the Collegiate Opera Competition; and serves on the Dominick Argento Chamber Opera Competition Committee.  

 

Upcoming engagements include: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Helena Symphony Orchestra May 2026), Trouble in Tahiti and Il Signor Bruschino (Amelia Island Opera May 2026), The Hawaii Premiere of Kamala Sankaram and Jerre Dye’s A.E. Reverie and Sankaram and A.H. Homes’ Rise (Hawaii Performing Arts Festival July 2026), Pagliacci (Opera Western Reserve Sept. 2026), and Serse (Baldwin Wallace Opera Theater Nov. 2026). 

Scott is represented by Marvel Arts Management