Scott Frankel

Scott David Frankel (born May 6, 1963) is an American composer and musical director.

Frankel attended Interlochen Arts Camp majoring in piano. He graduated from Yale University in 1985, when he was also inducted into the Skull and Bones secret society. While at Yale he met playwright Doug Wright.

Frankel worked as a music director, conductor and pianist, on Broadway shows including Into the Woods, Les Misérables, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Rags (1986, rehearsal pianist)and Falsettos, and also Off-Broadway on Putting It Together starring Julie Andrews.

He accompanied Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep in the film Postcards from the Edge party scene.

He then became a musical theatre composer, notably through collaborations with lyricist/librettist Michael Korie.

Their musical Doll was workshoped at the University of Houston as part of Stuart Ostrow's Musical Theatre Lab in 1995. A professional production premiered in Ravinia Festival in a staged reading in 2003, and was further developed at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, White Oak, Florida in December 2005.

Their musical Grey Gardens premiered Off-Broadway in 2006, and transferred to Broadway. For Grey Gardens, Frankel received a Tony Award nomination, as well as the ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award and The Frederick Loewe Award for Dramatic Composition.

Meet Mister Future received a workshop production in July 2006 at Barrington Stage Company Musical Theater Lab, directed by Christopher Ashley.

Their musical Happiness opened Off-Broadway in March 2009 Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, with direction and choreography by Susan Stroman.

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