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| Education | University of Arizona (BArch) Yale University (MFA) |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Scenic designer, costume designer |
| Years active | 1998–present |
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| Awards | Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play |
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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.[1][2] Pask earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Arizona and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University.[3][4] Bruce is a noted stylist and men's fashion director at T: The New York Times Style Magazine.[5]
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."[6][7] Pask has said of his work, "I do love abstracted places, especially one where I can fill it with so much texture."[8]
Pask designed the holiday snow globes for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS for 2005 and 2009.[9]
Productions
Broadway
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- 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
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.
| Year | Category | Work | Result |
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| 2005 | Best Scenic Design in a Play | The Pillowman | Won |
| 2007 | The Coast of Utopia (Parts 1-3) | Won | |
| 2008 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Best Scenic Design in a Musical | Pal Joey | Nominated |
| 2011 | The Book of Mormon | Won | |
| 2013 | Pippin | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Mean Girls | Nominated | |
| The Band's Visit | Nominated | ||
| 2022 | Best Scenic Design in a Play | American Buffalo | Nominated |
| 2023 | Best Scenic Design in a Musical | Shucked | Nominated |
| Some Like It Hot | Nominated | ||
| 2026 | Schmigadoon! | Pending |
| Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play | Take Me Out | Nominated | [10][11] |
| 2003 | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical | Amour | Nominated | [12] |
| 2005 | Sweet Charity | Nominated | [13] | |
| 2006 | The Wedding Singer | Nominated | [14] | |
| 2007 | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play | Blackbird | Nominated | [15] |
| The Coast of Utopia (Parts 1-3) | Won | |||
| 2008 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Won | [16] | |
| 2009 | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical | Hair | Nominated | [17] |
| 9 to 5 | Nominated | |||
| 2015 | The Visit | Nominated | [18][19] |
| Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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| 2003 | Outstanding Scenic Design | Nine | Nominated | [20] |
| 2005 | The Pillowman | Nominated | [21] | |
| 2007 | The Coast of Utopia | Won | [22] | |
| 2008 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Nominated | [23] | |
| 2013 | Pippin | Nominated | [24] | |
| 2015 | Something Rotten! | Nominated | [25] | |
| 2017 | The Little Foxes | Nominated | [26] | |
| 2022 | American Buffalo | Nominated | [27] | |
| 2026 | Schmigadoon! | Pending | [28][29] |
| Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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| 1999 | Outstanding Scenic Design | The Mineola Twins | Won | [30] |
| 2002 | Urinetown | Nominated | [31][32] | |
| 2008 | Blackbird | Nominated | [33] |
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