[1] Scanlan has written articles that have appeared in The New York Times "Arts & Leisure" section, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Playboy.
In 2011, it was announced that Scanlan is reworking the 1960 Meredith Willson musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown to change the fanciful non-fiction plot (originally written by Richard Morris) to a more factual one.
The show received its world premiere at the Denver Center Theatre Company in 2014, starring Beth Malone and directed by Kathleen Marshall.
Off-Center Series, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Taran Killam and Ellen Greene reprising her signature role of Audrey.
[10] The Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater New Works Program announced in 2014 that Scanlan and composer Josh Schmidt have been commissioned to write Fallingwater, an opera based on the family for which Frank Lloyd Wright designed his most famous building.