Don Scardino
Directing
Born 1949-02-17
New York City, New York, USA
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Don Scardino (born 17 February 1948) is an American television director and producer and a former actor.
Born in New York City, Scardino began his career as an actor. His first Broadway credit was as an understudy in The Playroom in 1965. Additional Broadway acting credits include Johnny No-Trump, Godspell, and King of Hearts. Off-Broadway he appeared in The Rimers of Eldritch, The Comedy of Errors, Moonchildren, and I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road, he was also the lead in a cult classic B horror movie titled Squirm in 1976. He served as Artistic Director at Playwrights Horizons from 1991-96. On television he appeared on the daytime soap operas The Guiding Light, All My Children, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and Another World and the primetime series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and The Name of the Game. Feature film credits include Rip-off, Homer, Squirm and Cruising.
Following his acting on the network soap operas, he began to direct them. He directed episodes of Another World, One Life to Live, and All My Children. He went on to direct plays on and off-Broadway, including the world premiere of Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men. He has directed extensively in television, most notably NBC's comedy 30 ROCK. Feature film directing work includes Me & Veronica (Venice Film Festival), and Advice From A Caterpillar, winner, best comedy, at Aspen Comedy Festival.
Scardino was married to actress Pamela Blair from 1984 to 1991. He is currently married to painter Dana L. Williams.
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Directing
48 credits
Law & Order
The West Wing
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Young Sheldon
2 Broke Girls
Only Murders in the Building
30 Rock
American Playhouse
Rescue Me
New Amsterdam
Homicide: Life on the Street
The Mindy Project
Royal Pains
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Hope & Faith
Ed
Cosby
George Lopez
Sports Night
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Lipstick Jungle
Instinct
100 Centre Street
The Big Easy
Central Park West
The Cool Kids
The Education of Max Bickford
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
DAG
Pearl
Soul Man
Public Morals
The Knights of Prosperity
Tattingers
Angel from Hell
Murphy Brown
Women and Wallace
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
Me and Veronica
The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
Advice From a Caterpillar
Browsers
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
A Break in the Rain
The Deal
Mission Control
Acting
15 credits
30 Rock
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
CBS Playhouse
Cruising
Squirm
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
Homer
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
He Knows You're Alone
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
The People Next Door
The History of 'Cruising'
Exorcising 'Cruising'
Purlie
Rip-Off
Producing
5 credits
30 Rock
The Cool Kids
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
Browsers
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