Scott Ellis: Last News

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Greenberg’s Tony Award-winning play Take Me Out, about baseball and homophobia, is set to be adapted as a limited television series.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Robert Horn, the Tony Award-winning book writer of the Broadway musical Tootsie, has signed with Verve for representation in all areas.Horn, who began his career as a writer for TV’s Designing Women and Living Single before going on to create CBS’ High Society and FX’s Partners, currently is writing the stage musical adaptation of Hercules for Disney Theatricals, and the film adaptation of 13: The Musical for Netflix.And last November, Deadline reported that Horn and and Tootsie director Scott Ellis were collaborating on a Fox multi-camera comedy project called Football Book Club inspired by the experiences of former New England Patriots wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsChristopher Scott Ellis, a mechanic known for appearing in Discovery’s Street Outlaws has died. Ellis, who was also known as “Kentucky” on the street racing show, was 39.Ellis passed away at his Oklahoma home on Wednesday Sept.