Career
Sanders began his career at Radio City Music Hall in New York, producing artists including Liberace, Sting, Diana Ross, and The Grateful Dead. He was Executive Producer there for 15 years and has been credited with reversing the venue’s steady decline after its near-bankruptcy in 1978. Sanders brought in rock concerts and popular cultural events including the Super Bowl halftime show and galas for President Bill Clinton.
Sanders co-founded and became president of Mandalay Television, and executive produced six network series, including include Young Americans, starring Kate Bosworth, Ian Somerhalder, Katherine Moenning, and Michelle Monaghan; Cupid, Mercy Point, Rude Awakening, Rick Reynolds: Only the Truth is Funny, and Penn & Teller: Don’t Try This at Home. His production company "Creative Battery" was responsible for solo Broadway shows by Elaine Stritch and the Barry Humphries character Dame Edna. Sanders also was Executive Producer for Queen Latifah’s jazz album, “The Dana Owens Album,” which received a 2005 Grammy nomination.
In 2007 he founded Scott Sanders Productions, a film and theatrical production company based in New York City.
In 2010 Sanders produced the theatrical production of "The Pee-wee Herman Show" starring Paul Reubens, first in Los Angeles and then in New York. Sanders is a lead producer on the first revival production of Evita based on the life of Argentine first lady Eva Peron, staged in 2012, and starring Ricky Martin and Elena Roger. Sanders and Ahmet Zappa co-produced a film written and directed by Peter Hedges, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, released by Walt Disney Pictures on August 15, 2012.
In August 2012 Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sanders agreed to mount stage productions of Sony films and announced that Tootsie, the 1982 comedy starring Dustin Hoffman, would be the first project.
Sanders and David Rockwell will produce "Houdini: An Original Musical" to be scored by Stephen Schwartz, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Jack O'Brien and starring Hugh Jackman as Houdini.
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