Jan Spencer Scott (September 26, 1914 – April 17, 2003) was an American production designer and art director.
She attended Carbondale Community High School and then studied architecture at the University of Chicago.
[2] In New York, she worked on live drama shows, including NBC Opera Theatre.
She also painted sets for the Metropolitan Opera[3] Her first prolonged assignment at NBC was as the art director on the DuPont Show of the Month, an anthology drama series that began production in 1957.
On the DuPont show, she worked closely with directors George Roy Hill, Fielder Cook, and Franklin J.
[3] She received an Emmy nomination for her art direction on the 1958 production Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates, broadcast as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame series.
[4] She worked on a television productions of several musicals in the late 1960s, including Brigadoon, Carousel, Kismet, and Kiss Me Kate.
[4][5] She won her third Emmy Award for the 1970 CBS Playhouse production of Shadow Game, a drama directed by Paul Bogart set against the 1965 Northeast blackout.
[8] She next won an Emmy Award for her work on the Evergreen (1985), a miniseries that spanned the history of a Jewish family over a 50-year period.