Background
Scardino was born in New York City, to jazz musician parents.
Scardino was born in New York City, to jazz musician parents.
Acting His first Broadway cr was as an understudy in The Playroom in 1965. Additional Broadway acting credits include Johnny Number-Trump, Godspell, and King of Hearts. Office-Broadway he appeared in The Rimers of Eldritch, The Comedy of Errors, Moonchildren, and I"m Getting My Acting Together and Taking lieutenant on the Road, he was also the lead in a cult classic B horror movie titled Squirm in 1976.
He served as Artistic Director at Playwrights Horizons from 1991-1996.
On television he appeared on the daytime soap operas The Guiding Light, All My Children, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and Another World and the primetime series The Ghost & Mistress Muir and The Name of the Game.
Feature film credits include The People Next Door, Rip-off, Homer, Squirm, Cruising and He Knows You"re Alone. Directing Following his acting on the network soap operas, Scardino began to direct them.
He directed episodes of Another World, One Life to Live, and All My Children.
He went on to direct plays on and off-Broadway, including the world premiere of Aaron Sorkin"s A Few Good Men. He has directed extensively in television, most notably and 30 Rock. He directed the 2013 film The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, starring Jim Carrey and Steve Carell.