Scott Silberstein
Co-founder and Executive Producer

Scott Silberstein co-founded HMS Media with Matt Hoffman in 1988. 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.

Among other honors, 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, Adrian Dunn: Emancipation, Christmas Carol: The Remix by Q Brothers, Broadway Comes Home, The Hip Hop Nutcracker, 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, River North Rising, Reality of a Dreamer, Why Am I Hiding, Getting There: Jump Rhythm Jazz Project and Just Passing Through: Shawn Colvin, Julia Fordham & 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 and WMAQ 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 is an Artistic Associate for the Tony Award® winning Lookingglass Theatre Company, a board member of Arts Alliance Illinois (where co-chairs the Arts Leadership Council and serves as a team leader for the National Arts Action Summit in Washington DC), a founding member of The Broadway League’s Governance Committee and publisher of the arts advocacy newsletter Arts in Action. He serves on the EDI Advisory Council for Chicago Dancers United and the Advisory Board for Giordano Dance Chicago, and is a past Vice-President of the SeeChicagoDance board of directors.

Scott met his wife Jackie Brenner while making the Emmy-winning series The Chicago Dance Project (and she subsequently won an Emmy for performing in Getting There, the HMS-produced documentary about Jump Rhythm Jazz Project). They have two children and live in Evanston, IL.