has written the musicals Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award for Best Musical), Everyday Rapture (co-written with Sherie Rene Scott/Tony nomination for Best Book), Renascence (Transport Group/co-directed with Jack Cummings III/Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical), a revised version of The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Transport Group/ Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Revival/Drama Desk nomination for Best Book) and Extraordinary (A.R.T. at Cambridge, MA). With Sherie Rene Scott, he co-wrote the play Whorl Inside a Loop (Second Stage/co-directed with Michael Mayer), and, with Jeanine Tesori, he wrote the song “The Girl in 14G” for Kristin Chenoweth. He served as Script Consultant to the legendary Berry Gordy in connection with Motown The Musical on Broadway, in the West End and on tour. For Encores! Off-Center, he directed Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Greene in Little Shop of Horrors. Upcoming projects include Fallingwater, an opera with composer Josh Schmidt commissioned by The Met/LCT New Works Program. Mr. Scanlan’s novel, Does Freddy Dance, was published in 1995 and was reissued in paperback in 1997. He has published numerous articles and essays in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, Playboy and other publications. He is the founder of artsINSIDEOUT, an arts program for women and children in Johannesburg, South Africa infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.