Scott Coulter is one of New York’s most honored vocalists. For his work in cabaret, Scott has received five MAC Awards (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs), five Bistro Awards and two Nightlife Awards for Outstanding Vocalist, and he has performed at most of NYC’s top rooms including Birdland, 54 Below, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, and Feinstein’s at The Regency, where he spent a record-setting eight months performing the revue 11 O’Clock Numbers at 11 O’Clock, which he also co-created, directed and musically arranged. His self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by TheaterMania and Cabaret Scenes magazines. Coulter was director and star of A Christmas Carol: The Symphonic Concert in its world premiere with the Baltimore Symphony, and he reprised his performance in the Emmy-nominated PBS production that premiered in December 2013.
Since 1997, Coulter has performed around the country with award-winning songwriting duo Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich in their many revues. While singing with Goldrich and Heisler, he was discovered by Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer Stephen Schwartz, who then invited him to join the revue Stephen Schwartz & Friends. That revue (starring Schwartz and Coulter along with Liz Callaway and Tony Award-winner Debbie Gravitte) has been performing all over the world since 1999. Schwartz has said, “One of the greatest things that can happen to a composer is to have his music interpreted by Scott Coulter.”
Coulter regularly performs in concert both as a solo artist and with a variety of legendary performers, including Stephen Schwartz, Tony winner Ben Vereen and Grammy winner Sheena Easton, and has performed with orchestras all over the world, including those of San Francisco, Baltimore, Seattle, Phoenix, Winnipeg, St. Louis, San Diego, Seattle, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Calgary.
Coulter is creator, arranger and director of several touring shows (symphonic and non-) including Music of the Knights, The Wonderful Music of Oz, Blockbuster Broadway!, and, for The ASCAP Foundation, Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert. As a director, his credits include many shows for The Town Hall in NYC and Broadway by the Way for The Berkshire Theatre Festival and Broadway by the Bay. Along with Michael Kerker and ASCAP, he's a regular producer/director of Michael Feinstein's Standard Time at Carnegie Hall. Coulter recently wrote the book for the new musical Got to Be There, which celebrates the life and music of songwriter Elliot Willensky. Coulter, along with Dave Gaebler, is a co-producer of the Jessica Hendy/Brianna Barnes musical Walking With Bubbles, which received a 2023 Drama Desk Award nomination and won an Off-Broadway Alliance Award. The show's cast album is produced by Coulter and Vibecke Dahle Dellapolla.
Coulter is founder/owner of Spot-On Entertainment and Spot-On Arts Academy and is a resident director of programming at 54 Below (Broadway’s Supper Club) in NYC. He is the artistic director of the Pocono Mountains Music Festival and a proud graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), which honored him with the CCM Young Alumni Award in 2010 and CCM's Distinguished Service Award in 2020.