Scott Brown (writer)

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 EW, 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 This American Life.[3] He is also the author of xL, a young adult novel published in 2019 by Alfred A Knopf.

His TV credits include HBO's Emmy-nominated 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 a 2018 Writers Guild Award.[4] He is also a consulting producer on the upcoming Amazon television 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]

References
  1. "Scott Brown Named as New York Magazine's Theater Critic | TheaterMania". www.theatermania.com. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  2. "American Theatre Critics Association - ATCA Home - Scott Brown wins George Jean Nathan Award". americantheatrecritics.org. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  3. "You Had One Job". This American Life. 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  4. "2019 Writers Guild Awards Winners & Nominees". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  5. "Gutenberg The Musical: Chicago!". 2008-05-26. Archived from the original on 2008-05-26. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  6. "Share the Excitement of First-Time Tony Nominees for Best Book of a Musical". Broadway Direct. 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
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