Scott Silberstein

Scott Silberstein is the executive producer of HMS Media, a media production company he co-founded with Matt Hoffman in 1988 that has received 17 Emmy Awards and 24 Emmy nominations for documentaries on the arts and social issues. Scott is an 6-time Emmy winner for producing Dance For Life, The Chicago Dance Project, Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 25 Years on the Edge, Reality of a Dreamer: River North Dance Company, Why Am I Hiding & Artbeat Chicago. He has most recently produced the pledge special Under The Streetlamp (which launched the eponymous four-person vocal group to national acclaim), and A Christmas Carol In Concert (which premieres on PBS in December 2013). He has also been Emmy-nominated for producing Every Dancer Has A Story, Billy Sunday, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project: Getting There, River North Rising, Just Passing Through with Shawn Colvin, Julia Fordham and October Project, and a Homeless PSA Campaign for the City of Chicago (featuring Phil Collins and Genesis). A classically trained and scholarship winning pianist, Scott was also Emmy nominated for composing music for Nothing Is Simple (NBC) and The World of Anne Frank (WTTW), and has composed original scores for nearly two dozen dance and theater pieces, including Kira The Young Hunter with Phil Collins, 12 Dancing Princesses and the upcoming The Golden Bird with Key & Peele’s Keegan-Michael Key. He and Matt have been jointly given four Ruth Page Awards, Chicago dance’s highest honor, and are also Jeff Award nominees.Scott has produced television projects for dozens of Broadway shows and national tours including Motown: The Musical, The Book of Mormon, Kinky Boots, West Side Story, Rent, Mamma Mia, Hairspray, Jersey Boys, Wicked, Billy Elliott, In The Heights, Next To Normal, Dreamgirls, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, A Little Night Music and many others, as well as for resident companies including Lookingglass Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Guthrie Theatre, Roundabout Theater, The Joffrey Ballet, River North Dance Chicago, Giordano Dance Chicago, Pilobolus Dance Company, Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre and the Jazz Dance World Congress.Scott is a company member of Lookingglass Theatre Company, a board member for Audience Architects (an advocacy and marketing organization for Chicago dance), and an advisory board member to a multitude of Chicago arts non-profits including River North Chicago Dance Company, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Bonedanse, Zephyr Dance Ensemble, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project and Mad Shak.