Scott Schwartz will be co-directing, with John Caird, the Broadway premiere of a new musical, Jane Eyre, after he concludes this assignment for Phoenix. Sandwiched between these two musicals, he will stage a new musical for Hal Prince's theatre program in Philadelphia and a workshop for a new off-Broadway musical, Bat Boy, which will find its way into New York next year. Last season, Mr. Schwartz directed another original musical, Only a Kingdom, for the Pasadena Playhouse, as well as the initial presentation of Jane Eyre at the LaJolla Playhouse. Credits include helming Dames at Sea for Virginia Stage Company, Urban Myths and the inaugural production of Silver Dollar for Stage One in Wichita, a concert version of 90 North for Berkshire Theater Festival, and a newly conceived production of Irving Berlin's Louisiana Purchase and The Baker's Wife for the Round Barn Theater in Indiana. His production of No Way to Treat a Lady at the off-Broadway York Theater was nominated for Best Musical Revival by the Outer Critics Circle. At Virginia's Signature Theatre, it was nominated for Best Musical of the Year at the Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, D.C. Mr. Schwartz's success in the musical theatre field doesn't lessen his pleasure in working with straight plays. He is most proud of his production of Chekhov's The Three Sisters for the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia and of his adaptation of Willa Cather's My Antonia for the York Theatre. Educated at Harvard, Mr. Schwartz comes from a theatrical family. His mother is an actress and his father is composer Stephen Schwartz.