Scott Forstall
Acclaimed Producer with Film and Broadway Success
A former technology industry executive, Scott Forstall has co-produced multiple award-winning Broadway stage productions, including Hadestown (2019), Eclipsed (2016), and Fun Home (2015). Forstall co-produced the latter two with his wife, Molly.
Fun Home is the musical adaptation of acclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir. It is notable for being the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist. Fun Home received 12 Tony Award nominations and won five, including Best Musical.
Written by actor Danai Gurira
of The Walking Dead and Black Panther fame, Eclipsed focuses on a group of women during the Second Liberian Civil War in the early 2000s. The play premiered at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. in 2009. In 2015, it premiered Off-Broadway at The Public Theater before transferring to Broadway the following spring.
Hadestown is based on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, a legendary musician who travels to the underworld to rescue his lover, Eurydice. The production that Scott Forstall co-produced won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Sound Design in a Musical, and Best Direction of a Musical.
20 years at Apple
Prior to his career as a Broadway producer, Forstall worked 20 years at Apple and Steve Jobs’ NeXT. He most recently served Apple as senior vice president of iOS Software from 2007 to 2012. Among other accomplishments at Apple, Forstall is credited with developing iOS as well as a software developer’s kit that allows programmers to create iPhone apps. He was personally selected by Steve Jobs to create iOS via an internal competition against iPod team leader Tony Fadell. At the time, Forstall was senior vice president for Apple’s Macintosh line. He had overseen the creation of the Safari web browser and was a lead designer of Macintosh’s Aqua user interface.
Scott Forstall holds a master’s degree in computer science and bachelor’s degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University.
