From Boy Scout to Broadway and Beyond: The Development of a Director is the entertaining, informative, and engaging memoir of Stuart Vaughan, Founding Artistic Director of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre New Orleans, The New Globe Theatre and Artistic Director of New York's Phoenix Theatre. A master story teller, this pioneer who forged the path to a serious national theatre in America charms us with anecdotes and gives us insight into his heralded directorial expertise, as the story of his life in the American theatre unfolds.