Scott Frankel

Early life

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.

Credits

Frankel worked as a music director, conductor and pianist, on Broadway shows including Into the Woods, Les Miserables, 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 premiered at the 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.

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.

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.

Private life

Frankel currently resides in Manhattan.

Works