Justin Scribner

Justin is a stage manager, producer, playwright, poet, and self-care advocate. He has twenty-three years of experience stage managing plays and musicals on and off Broadway and around the country, and is currently the Production Stage Manager of the the Tony-winning Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending. Justin was also the PSM for the Tony-winning Broadway revivals of Parade and Once On This Island, for which he also served as the Production Supervisor and Associate Director (respectively) of their National Tours. Other Broadway stage managing credits include Into the Woods, A Christmas Carol with Jefferson Mays, The Crucible, Rock of Ages, God of Carnage, The American Plan, A Chorus Line, RENT, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Lennon, Pacific Overtures, Jumpers, Little Shop of Horrors, and Nine. As a freelance stage manager, he regularly works various corporate events, meetings, conferences, festivals, charity galas, award shows, concerts, staged readings, workshops, and developmental labs of new plays and musicals. Justin’s first collection of poetry and short stories, every grain of sand, was published in November 2020.

News

The Heart of Rock and Roll, a new musical coming to Broadway in March, features the stage management expertise of two Columbia University faculty members.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Justin Scribner will be the Production Stage Manager for Jane Wagner’s one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles this fall. Previews begin September 21, and the show runs September 28–October 23. 

Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.

The 2021 Williamstown Theatre Festival will feature an outdoor season of works, all of which include Columbia alumni and faculty.