Scott Brown (writer)

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Scott Brown is an American author, screenwriter, journalist, critic and occasional composer based in New York and Western Massachusetts. He was previously the chief theater critic for New York magazine from 2010 to 2014. [1] He grew up in Durham, North Carolina, and later attended Harvard University.

Brown started his career in journalism at Entertainment Weekly , and went on to write articles, essays, film/theater reviews and humor for Entertainment Weekly, Wired , GQ , and Time , among others. In 2013, writing for New York magazine, he won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. [2] His short fiction has been featured on the radio program This American Life . [3] He is also the author of xL, a young adult novel published in 2019 by Alfred A. Knopf.

His television credits include HBO's Emmy-nominated miniseries Sharp Objects , based on the Gillian Flynn novel of the same name, as well as WGN's critically acclaimed Manhattan . He currently writes and serves as co-executive producer for the Stephen King-derived suspense series Castle Rock on Hulu, for which he received the 2018 Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Long Form – Original. [4] He is also a consulting producer on the Amazon Prime Video series Utopia , adapted by Gillian Flynn from the original work.

Brown collaborated with childhood friend and writing partner Anthony King to write the Off-Broadway musical Gutenberg! The Musical! [5] He also collaborated with King on the book for the Broadway musical Beetlejuice , for which the pair was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical in 2019. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Lipton, Brian Scott (September 20, 2010). "Scott Brown Named as New York Magazine's Theater Critic". TheaterMania. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Scott Brown wins George Jean Nathan Award". American Theatre Critics Association. February 10, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
  3. ↑ Brown, Scott (December 12, 2017). "You Had One Job". This American Life . Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ "2019 Writers Guild Awards Winners & Nominees". Writers Guild of America Awards. Archived from the original on September 21, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Gutenberg The Musical: Chicago!". GutenbergTheMusical.com. May 26, 2008. Archived from the original on May 26, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ Henderson, Kathy (May 28, 2019). "Share the Excitement of First-Time Tony Nominees for Best Book of a Musical". Broadway Direct. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
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