A director, dramaturg and producer with a special interest in new work, Scott has taught at UT since 2003, His courses have included graduate and undergraduate directing, advanced acting, acting Shakespeare, and a popular audition workshop. For Spring of 2009 he is developing a new adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Idiot, which he will direct in the Brockett Theatre.
From 2000-2005, Scott was producing artistic director of Austin's State Theater Company, where he staged a range of classic and contemporary plays, including Nickel and Dimed, Mrs. Warren's Profession (with UT's Franchelle S. Dorn), The Tempest, Dinner With Friends, The Little Prince: the Musical, Be Aggressive, Eric Coble's Virtual Devotion and others. He also produced an acclaimed series of premieres by Austin playwrights, including Steven Tomlinson (American Fiesta); Greater Tuna's Jaston Williams (I'm Not Lying); and Michener Center writers John S. Walch (The Dinosaur Within) and Steve Moore (Nightswim). This year he also developed and staged Mr. Williams's Cowboy Noises at The Paramount Theatre.
Scott spent nine seasons as resident director and head of new play development at The Cleveland Play House, where he collaborated on the genesis of more than 50 new works by American playwrights including Wendy Kesselman, Seth Greenland, John Henry Redwood, Joan Ackerman, Wendy MacLeod, Randal Myler, and many others. In Cleveland and elsewhere he directed Constance Congdon's Tales of the Lost Formicans, Terence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart Harold Pinter's Betrayal; an acclaimed revival of The Diary of Anne Frank; the world premiere of Michele Lowe's The Smell of the Kill; and an infamous staging of The Mystery of Irma Vep with the inimitable David Greenspan. For the Cleveland Play House International Theatre Exchange, Scott developed translations of Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide, Becher and Preses's Der Bockerer, Rezor Seresz's Gloomy Sunday and Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters for visiting companies including the Slovak, Czech and Hungarian national theatres, and the New Experimental Theatre of Volgograd. With choreographer Dianne McIntyre, he collaborated on I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change, both in Cleveland and for Center Stage, Baltimore.
As a New York-based actor Scott worked on tour, off–Broadway and at leading American companies including the Hartford Stage, the Long Wharf, the Ahmanson, the Berkshire Theatre Festival and the Kennedy Center. Scott has also taught in conservatory programs for Ohio University and the Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Play House Professional Training Program. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and he lives in Austin with his wife, Marla, and their son, Sam.
