Meet the Artists: Dick Scanlan

Dick Scanlan knows a thing or two about making a Broadway musical, with a particular knack for adapting beloved movies for the stage. This includes “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” the Tony® Award winner for Best Musical and a new musical: “An Officer and a Gentleman,” which will be part of the upcoming Broadway at the Ordway season (which he will also direct). Dick was nominated for Tony® and Drama Desk Awards for the book for the musical “Everyday Rapture” and was a script consultant on the Broadway production of “Motown the Musical.” This accomplished writer has also written articles that appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Playboy; his short stories have been published in Best American Gay Fiction; and he served as editor-in-chief of POZ, a national magazine for people living with HIV/AIDS.