Scott Skiba
DIRECTOR
ADMINISTRATOR
PRODUCER
EDUCATOR
DIRECTOR
Award-winning Stage Director, Scott Skiba has directed over 120 new productions for professional companies, international performing arts festivals, and academic institutions.
Recognized for his imaginative stage direction and dynamic physical approach to storytelling that is “masterful, ingenious, first-rate, vivid, and emotionally charged", his work has received numerous awards including The American Prize in Directing: The Charles Nelson Reilly Prize, The American Prize in Opera Performance, 1st Place Awards in the National Opera Association Collegiate Production Competition, and the Award for Digital Excellence in Opera from Opera America
ADMINISTRATOR
Scott serves as General Director for Opera Western Reserve, Assistant Artistic Director for Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and Executive Artistic Director of Cleveland Opera Theater, where his recent production of La Traviata was named “the best professional opera production Cleveland has seen in years,” and La Bohème was hailed as "ingenious."
PRODUCER
A pioneer in exploring contemporary approaches to designing producing opera, Scott's work includes directing, designing, and producing interdisciplinary collaborations in alternative venues to promote civic engagement and provide gateways to develop new audiences.
A proponent of new opera, Scott launched {NOW} Fest, Cleveland Opera Theater's annual event to create, develop, and produce new opera works, and he serves on the National Opera Association Chamber Opera Composition Committee. His "Operas in Place" project won the 2022 Award for Digital Excellence in Opera from Opera America.
EDUCATOR
An advocate for arts education, Skiba serves as Theater Instructor/Stage Director for the Washington National Opera Institute, Acting Instructor for Jennifer Rowley’s Boot Camp, and Assistant Artistic Director - Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. A frequent guest stage director, and master class and workshop teacher throughout the United States and in Europe, he is currently serving as a guest stage director for Ohio State University Opera Theatre. Previous appointments include Visiting Professor of Opera Theater at the Oberlin College and Conservatory, Director of Opera Studies for the award-winning Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Opera Theater, Instructor of Voice and Opera Theater at Interlochen Arts Academy, Interim Director of Opera Theatre at the University of Tennessee, and Associate Instructor of Voice at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
