About the Writer
JEFF SCOTT has 33 years experience working in entertainment. With a background in mime and musical theater, Jeff is best known as America's foremost (and former) Pee-wee Herman impersonator. While appearing in more than 700 performances at Sea World Theme Parks (at both the Ohio and San Diego parks), he doubled the real Pee-wee for the Big Top Pee-wee movie poster.
Jeff Scott and his writing partner Bill Fagan met in 1989 while working together with The Hilarions: Gladiators of Comedy (a sketch comedy troupe that enjoyed a three year run at Hollywood's Theater/Theatre, USA). The troupe's 1990 Christmas revue, The Ho-Ho Hilarions, received rave reviews in the L.A. Times for it's second act original musical, All About Christmas Eve (by Jeff and Bill).
When that run ended, Jeff & Bill formed Mayday Productions in 1992. Their first solo production was a mock-u-musical revue: Bombed A Lot! The Music of Peter Buoy Wryder. The show enjoyed four sold out weeks at The Rose Tattoo, and a fully staged theatrical production ran for two months at Theater/Theatre during the Fall of 1996.
Their next project was the full-length ghostly musical 'Til Death Us Do Start (which has had workshop productions at Theatre Neo, Theatre Geo, The HBO Workspace and Dvorak & Co., in L.A).
Their final collaboration was I Was A Teenage Homo! A Scary Fairy Tale, which had it's world premiere with the award-winning Theatre Neo in North Hollywood, CA (Fall 2007). The musical was translated into Spanish for it's first international production in Mexico City, 2009.
Jeff's other composer/pianist credits include; The Hilarions (3 1/2 years at Theatre/Theater), The Sirens Of Satire (4 years, The Improv), Dial-M Murder Mysteries (12 years nationwide), and 7 years at Premiere Radio Networks (providing radio stations nationwide with musical parodies).
Since 1995 Jeff has been the house pianist at The World Famous Comedy Store on the historic Sunset Strip, where he accompanies such legendary comics as Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Pauley Shore, Andrew Dice Clay, Jeff Ross, Dom Irrera and Jeff Garlin to name a few. In his spare time Jeff created, and is the webmaster of www.American Musicals.com (an online information and networking site for anyone working in or creating musical theatre). |
