Scott Silberstein
Co-founder and Executive Producer

An award-winning producer, writer, composer and occasional director, Scott was recognized by New City as one of Chicago’s Top Fifty Movers and Shakers in Chicago’s arts and cultural sector. Scott has received seven Emmy Awards® (and eleven more nominations), the inaugural Chicago Dance History Project Maurice Seymour Award for Service and Vision to the Field, three Ruth Page Awards, a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination, and, as an Artistic Associate with Lookingglass Theatre, a Tony Award® for Outstanding Regional Theatre.  

Producing credits include Lookingglass Alice, Live From The Harris: Adrian Dunn’s Emancipation, Christmas Carol: The Remix by Q Brothers, Broadway Comes Home, The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Great Performances: Chicago Voices, Get Happy! Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland, First You Dream: The Songs of Kander & Ebb, A Christmas Carol: The Concert, Second To None, Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 25 Years on the Edge, Dance For Life, The Chicago Dance Project, Every Dancer Has A Story, Why Am I Hiding, Getting There: Jump Rhythm Jazz Project and Just Passing Through with Shawn Colvin, Julia Fordham, and October Project.

Scott has also produced and directed live performance shoots and short form content for hundreds of Broadway shows, tours, and regional performing arts companies, as well as segments for WTTW’s Artbeat Chicago and a public service announcement campaign for the City of Chicago about homelessness featuring music and appearances by the rock band Genesis.

A classically trained pianist who earned a piano studies certificate from London’s Guildhall School of Music at the age of twelve, Scott has been nominated for two Emmys and a Ruth Page Award for soundtracks, scores and sound designs for specials airing on WTTW-TV and WMAQ-TV as well as River North Dance Chicago, Zephyr Dance, Kast & Company and the Lynda Martha Dance Company, including Kira The Young Hunter with Phil Collins.

Scott writes the acclaimed arts advocacy Substack Adventures in Yes. He is a past board member of Arts Alliance Illinois (where co-chaired the Arts Leadership Council, for which he still serves as an advisor), was a founding member of The Broadway League’s Legislative Committee, is a past Vice-President of the SeeChicagoDance board of directors, and is an advisory board member for Giordano Dance Chicago.

Scott, his wife and their two children are proud residents of Evanston, IL.