Scott Barnhardt is a lifelong musical theatre actor, theatre maker and educator. He is the Lead Faculty for the Contemporary Musical Theatre + Film BFA program at Hussian College Los Angeles. Scott recently served as the Director of Musical Theatre at the Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA). He is a graduate of Wagner College (BA, Theatre/Speech) and UCLA (MFA, Playwriting).

At OCSA, along with teaching audition prep and a class called Mind|Body|Voice, he has directed the virtual production of Now. Here. This. (the first full-length musical to be shot and presented entirely during quarantine), Evita (in association with Musical Theatre West), the High School premiere of Jasper in Deadland, The Drowsy Chaperone, Xanadu, 9-to-5 (alongside Jessica Lea Patty). He was also seen in concert with students at the Irvine Barclay Theatre in Coming Home with Krysta Rodriguez and Scott Barnhardt.