SCOTT SILBERSTEIN

Scott Silberstein (he/him) is a producer, writer and program developer and co-founder (with Matt Hoffman) of 26-time Emmy Award winning HMS Media. Scott most recently produced the national PBS capture of Lookingglass Alice. He has received 7 Emmy Awards and 16 nominations for television and music projects including Broadway Comes Home: Kate Baldwin, Chicago Voices (featuring Renée Fleming, Shemekia Copeland and Jessie Mueller), The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Christmas Carol: The Remix By Q Brothers, Live From The Harris: Adrian Dunn’s Emancipation, the Kander & Ebb tribute First You Dream (with Norm Lewis, Kate Baldwin and Heidi Blickenstaff), Dance For Life, The Chicago Dance Project, Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 25 Years on the Edge, Our City Our Shakespeare (featuring Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Just Passing Through (with Julia Fordham, Shawn Colvin and October Project), Dance From The Heart (with Ben Vereen and The Joffrey Ballet), Second To None (with Tina Fey and The Second City), A Christmas Carol: The Concert and Getting There: Jump Rhythm Jazz Project.

With Matt and the HMS team, Scott has won three Ruth Page Awards for collaborations with Chicago dance companies, the Gold and Silver Plaques from the Chicago International Film Festival, the Arts and Business Council’s Abby Award and the Chicago Dance History Project’s inaugural Maurice Seymour Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field. He has produced hundreds of promotional video, television commercials and web content for numerous Broadway shows, national tours and Chicago theater, dance and music companies.

Scott is a board member for Arts Alliance Illinois, a statewide advocacy organization for Illinois arts organizations, where he co-chairs the Arts Leadership Council. He is past vice-preseident of the board for SeeChicagoDance, is an advistory board member for Giordano Dance Chicago and a founding member of Chicago Dancers United EDI Advisory Council.
Scott and HMS created video design for Lookingglass’ 1984 (Jeff Nomination for Projections/Video Design), and continues to produce marketing, development, archival and web content for Lookingglass, as well as the many of the company’s Gglassquerade and UnGala, documentary and informational content.

A classically trained pianist through the Baldwin Piano Pathways Program, he won the Jose Iturbi Scholarship and the Merit Certificate from the Guildhall School of Music in London, and his composition and sound work includes specials for NBC-Chicago, WTTW-Chicago, numerous dance scores and sound designs, including Kira The Young Hunter with Phil Collins.

Bio as of 2023