Scott Coulter is one of New York's most honored vocalists, having received five MAC Awards (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs), five Bistro Awards and two Nightlife Awards for Outstanding Vocalist. He's 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 TheatreMania 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 reprised his performance in the Emmy-nominated PBS production. He is an Emmy nominee himself for his performance in American Song at NJPAC and a Grammy nominee as a featured vocalist on the album Sondheim Unplugged: The NYC Sessions. Coulter regularly performs in concert both as a solo artist and with a variety of legendary performers including Sheena Easton and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz. Schwartz has said “One of the greatest things that can happen to a composer is to have his music interpreted by Scott Coulter.”
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. 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 and Gaebler are also on the producing teams of the Broadway musicals Water for Elephants and Suffs (Tony Award winner for Best Book of a Musical and Best Score).
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 founder of the Pocono Pops! Coulter is a proud graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), which honored him with the Young Alumni Award in 2010 and the Distinguished Service Award in 2020.