Scott Wittman

Scott Wittman is an American filmmaker by profession. He is also a lyricist plus writer who works for Broadway theatres, concerts and in television shows. He was born on 16 November in 1954. He grew up and spent his childhood in Nanuet which is situated in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , US. He completed his graduate degree in the year 1972 from Nanuet Senior High School and later went on to attend Emerson College situated in Boston for the next two years of his life.

After that, he left the place and moved back to New York City to pursue a further career in the field of musical theatres. Due the period when he was working as a director for a show of Greenwich Village club, he has a meeting with Marc Shaiman Marc Shaiman was born on October 22, 1959 in Newyo >> Read More... and soon, they both became professional partners plus collaborators. While Shaiman did the work of writing for television shows such as Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live or popularly called as NBC&#39 >> Read More... , Wittman did the direction part for several concerts of different artists including Bette Midler People come to the film industry to settle with a >> Read More... , Lypsinka, Christine Ebersole Christine Ebersole is an American actress and sing >> Read More... , Dame Edna Everage, Raquel Welch, and many others.

In 2002, they both did the writing part of the music and lyrics of the musical called “Hairspray” which later made them win the “Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics” and also the “Tony Award for Best Original Score” plus a “Grammy Award” too. Along with Hairspray, Scott also worked as a director and a lyricist in “Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me” and also conceived plus directed in a solo concert of Patti LuPone titled “Matters of the Heart” in 2000.

He again worked along with Shaiman in a musical adaptation of 2002 popular by the name “Catch Me If You Can” which was an excellent work of Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg is an American producer, director >> Read More... film. In this, they also got an opportunity to work with Terrence McNally. In Broadway, this musical opened in April 2011. After that, they again worked together next time on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical.” His work “Hairspray” was displayed at the Nanuet Senior High School in 2011.

It was the same place from where Wittman pursued his high school education. In 2013, they together wrote the score for the Bombshell which is a musical about Marilyn Monroe Marilyn is commonly known to us as the actress who >> Read More... under the context of a show called Smash of the NBC television. It's soundtrack released in the same year later. Together, they created lots of remarkable musicals in their career.