Scott has been working in stage, television and film for over 25 years in that time he has been acting, fight directing, directing and or clowning for Sydney Theatre Company, Opera Australia, Queensland Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, La Boite Theatre, Zen Zen Zo, Bell Shakespeare, Queensland Performing Arts Trust, Kooemba Jdarra, Opera Queensland, Queensland Ballet, Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe, someone, Tropicsun Theatre, JUTE, numerous television shows and many independent feature and short films. Performances Scott has directed have played through Queensland, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Scott was the President of the Society of Australian Fight Directors Inc. from 1996 - 2007, a Honourary Member of the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, Honourary Fight Director of Fight Directors, Canada, Affiliated Member of the Art of Combat and a Honourary Fight Director of the Independent Fight Directors Guild of America. In 2002 and 2003 Scott was the Intern and Associate Director for the Queensland Theatre Company.
As an Instructor of Acting, Clowning, Stage Combat and Fight Direction Scott has taught nationally and internationally. Nationally - Queensland University of Technology: Creative Industries - Resident teacher since 1998, University of Southern Queensland - Resident teacher 1999-2001, James Cook University - Resident teacher 1998-2001, Actors Conservatory - Resident teacher 1997-2000, Opera Queensland - Resident teacher since 2002. Internationally - Canada: Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Workshop - Resident Artist 1999, 2000, 2001 & 2003. Australia: Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Workshop - Resident Artist 2004. Scotland: Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Workshop - Resident Artist 1999. As a result of an Arts Queensland Grant in 2000, Scott was a guest teacher in - Wales: Welsh College of Music and Drama. England - Mountview Theatre School, East 15 Acting School, Guilford Acting School, Bristol Old Vic, Rose Bruford, Isle of Wight School of Acting, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. USA: American Academy of Classical Acting.
Scott has also been a recipient of two Arts Queensland Grants for the further development of Stage Combat and Fight Direction. In 2004 Scott completed a Master in Fine Arts at Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology in Stage Combat and Fight Direction. In 2005 Scott received another Arts Queensland Grant to stage his one man show - Handyman. Scott received a Matilda Award for his Direction of Road to the She-Devil’s Salon at Queensland Theatre Company and Long Term Role as a Fight Director in 2003. His critically acclaimed adaptation and direction of Scapin (a co-production between Queensland Theatre Company and State Theatre Company of South Australian) received a Mo Nomination in 2004 for Best Theatre Production of the Year. In 2006 Scott received two Matilda Awards for Best Director (A Christmas Carol for Queensland Theatre Company) and Contribution to Brisbane Theatre in 2005.
Theatre (as a director): Puss in Boots, Christmas Carol, Lily Can't Sleep, Vincent in Brixton, God is a DJ, Scapin, Road to the She Devil's Salon, Mad Hercules (Queensland Theatre Company), Lieutenant of Inishmore (AS Theatre), Waiting for Merlot (deBase), Macbeth, The Chicken Play (JUTE), Hermes and the Naked Flame, Perfect Skin (La Boite), Comedy of Errors (University of Southern Queensland), The Waiting Room (Metro Arts), Handyman (Combat Circus). Theatre (as writer / adaptor): Macbeth (Jute), Funny Voices, Puss in Boots, Scapin, Mad Hercules (Queensland Theatre Company), Handyman (Combat Cirucs), Theatre (as fight director / movement consultant): Vs Macbeth, Spring Awakening, The Mysteries Genesis, God of Carnage, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Duel, Elling, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Sydney Theatre Company, 4 Plays About Wollongong (Merrigong Theatre Company), Bad Jazz (square the circle & Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Crestfallen (Bareboards Productions), Actors at Work, Taming of the Shrew (Bell Shakespeare), Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome, The Alchemist, Richard III (Bell Shakespeare & Queensland Theatre Company), Toy Symphony, The Crucible, School of Arts, Stones in his Pockets, Heroes, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Glass Menargie, The Estimator, Puss in Boots, Private Lives, The Woman Before, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset,American Buffalo, A Streetcar Named Desire, Hitchcock Blonde, Mano Nera, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, The Venetian Twins, Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed, The Cherry Orchard, The Orphanage Project,The Lonesome West, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The Messiah, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Cooking With Elvis, Mad Hercules, Bash, Richard II, Bag O'Marbles, Buried Child, Dirt, The Forest, Fred, Shopping & Fucking, Fountains & Beyond, The Sunshine Club, Long Days Journey into Night (Queensland Theatre Company), Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Odyssey (Zen Zen Zo), Romeo & Juliet (Queensland Ballet), Cosi Fan Tuti, Carmen, Romeo & Juliet (Queensland Opera), Tosca (Opera Australia), oodgeroo, The White Earth, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Danger Age, Summer Wonderland, 48 Shades of Brown, Way Out West, Excess Baggage, Romeo & Juliet, X-Stacey, The John Wayne Principle, As You Like it (La Boite), Theatre (as actor): Bad Jazz (square the circel & Darlinghurst Theatre Company), The Alchemist (Bell Shakespeare and Queensland Theatre Company), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Summer Wonderland, Way Out West, The Popular Mechanicals, Mr Melancholy, Equus, War Woman, The Kelly Dance (La Boite), Bit'n Back (Kooemba Jdarra), Grimm Tales, Chilling & Killing My Annabelle Lee, Worlds Apart, Peter Pan (Queensland Theatre Company), He Died With a Falafel iin HIs Hand, Two, Bouncers (someone), Film (as actor): Mr Reliable, Eat in or Takeaway Television (as an actor):Monarch Cove, The Team, Misery GUts, Medivac, Pacific Drive, Pheonix 2, Asutralia's Most Wanted. Positions: President ofThe Society of Australian Fight Directors inc. from 1996 - 2007, Honorary Fight Director of Fight Directors, Canada, Honorary Memeber of the British Academy of Dramtaic Combat, Affiliated Member of the Art of Combat (USA), Honorary Fight Director of the Independant Fight Directors Guild of America. |
