Scott Pask
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 and Tales From Hollywood, both directed by John Crowley; Bash ; Albert Herring ; The Underpants, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Donkey Show, 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 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 – 2001Amour – 2002Take Me Out – 2003Nine – 2003Little Shop of Horrors – 2003La Cage Aux Follies – 2004The Pillowman – 2005Sweet Charity – 2005The Wedding Singer – 2006The Lieutenant of Inishmore – 2006Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway – 2006Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me – 2006The Coast of Utopia (Part 1 - Voyage) – 2006The Vertical Hour – 2006The Coast of Utopia (Part 2 - Shipwreck) – 2006The Coast of Utopia (Part 3 - Salvage) – 2007The Ritz – 2007November – 2008Cry-Baby – 2008Les Liaisons Dangereuses – 2008Speed-the-Plow – 2008Pal Joey – 2008Impressionism – 2009Hair – 20099 to 5 – 2009A Steady Rain – 2009A Behanding in Spokane – 2010Promises, Promises – 2010Mrs. Warren's Profession – 2010Elling – 2010The Book of Mormon – 2011The House of Blue Leaves – 2011I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers – 2013Pippin – 2013Macbeth – 2013Casa Valentine – 2014It's Only a Play – 2014Finding Neverland – 2015Something Rotten! – 2015Airline Highway – 2015The Visit – 2015An Act of God – 2015Blackbird – 2016The Father – 2016Waitress – 2016Oh, Hello on Broadway – 2016The Cherry Orchard – 2016The Little Foxes – 2017The Band's Visit – 2017Mean Girls – 2018Saint Joan – 2018The Prom – 2019Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – 2020American Buffalo – 2022Mr. Saturday Night (musical) – 20221776 – 2022Ain't No Mo' – 2022Some Like It Hot – 2022Shucked – 2023Grey House – 2023Touring
Urinetown Little Shop of Horrors Sweet Charity Hair The Book of Mormon Tours- * Latter Day Tour
- * Jumamosi Tour Pippin Finding Neverland Something Rotten! Waitress The Band's Visit Mean Girls
- ''The Prom''