Scott Pask is an American scenic and costume designer. He has worked primarily on stage productions in the United States, on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and in regional theatre, as well as in the United Kingdom. He has won Tony Awards for his work on The Pillowman, The Coast of Utopia and The Book of Mormon.

Early life and education Pask was born in Rochester, New York and raised in Yuma, Arizona, with his twin brother, Bruce. Pask earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Arizona and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. Bruce is a noted stylist and men's fashion director at T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

Career His Broadway credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Urinetown, The Coast of Utopia, The Vertical Hour, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway, The Wedding Singer, La Cage aux Folles, Amour, Sweet Charity, Little Shop of Horrors, Take Me Out, Nine, The Pillowman, and A Steady Rain. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut with his design for Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes.

Pask designed the original production of The Pillowman and its subsequent UK tour for the National Theatre. Additional credits include On an Average Day (West End) and Tales From Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse), both directed by John Crowley; Bash (Almeida Theatre, New York, Los Angeles, and Showtime); Albert Herring (Opera North U.K); The Underpants, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Donkey Show (NY, London, Edinburgh, Cambridge), Slanguage, The Gimmick, Love's Fowl, The Beginning of August, Refuge. Also: Baltimore Center Stage, Alliance Theater, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Rep, The Old Globe, ACT, Yale Repertory Theater, Walker Arts Center, Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto, BAM and Williamstown. He also designed the original scenic design for the debut of Johnny Baseball at the American Repertory Theatre Spring 2010.

Of Pask's set design for Hair, Ben Brantley in The New York Times wrote: "Scott Pask's exposed-wall set is the perfect playground for a world in which imagination (aided by chemical substances) provides the décor." Pask has said of his work, "I do love abstracted places, especially one where I can fill it with so much texture."

Pask designed the holiday snow globes for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS for 2005 and 2009.

Productions

Broadway

Urinetown – 2001 Amour – 2002 Take Me Out – 2003 Nine – 2003 Little Shop of Horrors – 2003 La Cage Aux Follies – 2004 The Pillowman – 2005 Sweet Charity – 2005 The Wedding Singer – 2006 The Lieutenant of Inishmore – 2006 Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway – 2006 Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me – 2006 The Coast of Utopia (Part 1 - Voyage) – 2006 The Vertical Hour – 2006 The Coast of Utopia (Part 2 - Shipwreck) – 2006 The Coast of Utopia (Part 3 - Salvage) – 2007 The Ritz – 2007 November – 2008 Cry-Baby – 2008 Les Liaisons Dangereuses – 2008 Speed-the-Plow – 2008 Pal Joey – 2008 Impressionism – 2009 Hair – 2009 9 to 5 – 2009 A Steady Rain – 2009 A Behanding in Spokane – 2010 Promises, Promises – 2010 Mrs. Warren's Profession – 2010 Elling – 2010 The Book of Mormon – 2011 The House of Blue Leaves – 2011 I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers – 2013 Pippin – 2013 Macbeth – 2013 Casa Valentine – 2014 It's Only a Play – 2014 Finding Neverland – 2015 Something Rotten! – 2015 Airline Highway – 2015 The Visit – 2015 An Act of God – 2015 Blackbird – 2016 The Father – 2016 Waitress – 2016 Oh, Hello on Broadway – 2016 The Cherry Orchard – 2016 The Little Foxes – 2017 The Band's Visit – 2017 Mean Girls – 2018 Saint Joan – 2018 The Prom – 2019 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – 2020 American Buffalo – 2022 Mr. Saturday Night (musical) – 2022 1776 – 2022 Ain't No Mo' – 2022 Some Like It Hot – 2022 Shucked – 2023 Grey House – 2023

Touring

Urinetown (2003–2004) Little Shop of Horrors (2004–2006) Sweet Charity (2006–2007) Hair (2010–2012) The Book of Mormon Tours Latter Day Tour (2012–2016) Jumamosi Tour (2012–2020) Pippin (2014–2016) Finding Neverland (2016–2018) Something Rotten! (2017–2018) Waitress (2017–2019) The Band's Visit (2019–present) Mean Girls (2019–present) The Prom (upcoming)

West End

The Playboy of the Western World – 2011 Amaluna - Cirque Du Soleil – 2017 Waitress – 2019 The Book of Mormon – 2021 Shucked – 2025

Off-Broadway

Love's Fowl – 1998 The Mineola Twins – 1999 The Gimmick – 1999 The Bomb-itty of Errors – 1999 Boys Don't Wear Lipstick – 2000 Urinetown – 2001 Slanglauge – 2001 The Underpants – 2002 Take Me Out – 2002 Amour – 2002 The Cherry Orchard – 2005 The Lieutenant of Inishmore – 2006 Howard Katz – 2007 Blackbird – 2007 Saved – 2008 Hair – 2008 Wings – 2010 Silence! The Musical – 2011 Tribes – 2012 First Daughter Suite – 2015 Incognito – 2016 Dead Poets Society – 2016 The Band's Visit – 2016 On the Shore of the Wide World – 2017 Carmen Jones – 2017 Socrates – 2019 Cornelia Street – 2023

Other John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City – 2018

Awards and nominations Pask won the 1999 Lucille Lortel Award and Henry Hewes Award for his work on The Mineola Twins and the 2001 Bessie Award for Verge.

Tony Awards YearCategoryWorkResult2005Best Scenic Design in a PlayThe Pillowman2007The Coast of Utopia (Parts 1-3)2008Les Liaisons Dangereuses2009Best Scenic Design in a MusicalPal Joey2011The Book of Mormon2013Pippin2018Mean GirlsThe Band's Visit2022Best Scenic Design in a PlayAmerican Buffalo2023Best Scenic Design in a MusicalShucked Some Like It Hot2026Schmigadoon!

Drama Desk Awards YearCategoryWorkResultRef.2002Outstanding Scenic Design of a PlayTake Me Out2003Outstanding Scenic Design of a MusicalAmour2005Sweet Charity2006The Wedding Singer2007Outstanding Scenic Design of a PlayBlackbirdThe Coast of Utopia (Parts 1-3)2008Les Liaisons Dangereuses2009Outstanding Scenic Design of a MusicalHair9 to 52015The Visit

Outer Critics Circle Awards YearCategoryWorkResultRef.2003Outstanding Scenic DesignNine2005The Pillowman2007The Coast of Utopia2008Les Liaisons Dangereuses2013Pippin2015Something Rotten!2017The Little Foxes2022American Buffalo 2026Schmigadoon!

Lucille Lortel Awards YearCategoryWorkResultRef.1999Outstanding Scenic DesignThe Mineola Twins2002Urinetown2008Blackbird

References

External links

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