Don Scardino

Don Scardino (born February 17, 1948) is an American television director and producer and a former actor.

Born in New York City, Scardino began his career as an actor. His first Broadway credit was as an understudy in The Playroom in 1965. Additional Broadway acting credits include Johnny No-Trump, Godspell, and King of Hearts. Off-Broadway he appeared in The Comedy of Errors and I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road, among many others, and he served as Artistic Director at Playwrights Horizons from 1991-96. On television he appeared on the daytime soap operas The Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and Another World and the primetime series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and The Name of the Game. Feature film credits include Rip-off, Homer, Squirm and Cruising.

Following his acting on the network soap operas, he began to direct them. He directed episodes of Another World, One Life to Live, and All My Children.

Scardino was married to noted actress Pamela Blair from 1984 to 1991.

[edit] Award nominations

1986 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Man in a Drama Series (Another World)
1994 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing in a Variety or Music Program (Tracey Takes on New York)
1998 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program (Tracey Takes On...)
1998 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety (Tracey Takes On...)