| Scott has been working in stage, television and film for over twenty-five years in that time he has been acting, fight directing, directing and or clowning for Sydney Theatre Company, Company B, Opera Australia, Merrigong Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre, Queensland Theatre Company, Zen Zen Zo, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, square the circle, Bare Boards Productions, Bell Shakespeare, Queensland Performing Arts Trust, Kooemba Jdarra, Opera Queensland, Queensland Ballet, Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe, someone, JUTE, Tropicsun and many independent feature and short films. Performances Scott has directed have played throughout Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. During 2002 and 2003 he was the Intern and Associate Director for the Queensland Theatre Company. In 2004 Scott completed a Master in Fine Arts at Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology and in 2011 Scott took up the position of Associate Lecturer in Movement at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. As an Instructor of Acting, Clowning, Mask, Improvisation, Stage Combat and Fight Direction Scott has taught nationally and internationally. Nationally – National Institute of Dramatic Art 2010 & 2011 (Associate Lecturer in Movement), Actors Centre Australia 2010 & 2011, Queensland University of Technology: Creative Industries - Resident tutor since 1998, University of Southern Queensland - Resident tutor 1999-2001, James Cook University - Resident tutor 1998-2001, Actors Conservatory - Resident teacher 1997-2000, Opera Queensland - Resident tutor since 2002. Internationally - Canada: Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Workshop - Resident Artist 1998, 1999, 2000, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2008 & 2010. 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 2005 Scott received an Arts Queensland Grant to stage his one man clowning show - Handyman. Scott was the recipient 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. For Scott's work in 2005 he received two Matilda Awards for Best Director (A Christmas Carol for Queensland Theatre Company) and Contribution to Queensland Theatre. Theatre (as director) : Are We There Yet? (Brisbane Festival), Puss in Boots, A Christmas Carol, God is a DJ, Lily Can’t Sleep, Vincent in Brixton, Scapin, Road to the She Devils Salon, Mad Hercules (Queensland Theatre Company), Speaking in Tongues, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, 1841 (Actors Centre Australia), Lieutenant of Inishmore (AS Productions), 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 Independents). Theatre (as writer / adaptor) : Are We There Yet? (Brisbane Festival), Funny Voices, Puss in Boots, Scapin, Mad Hercules (Queensland Theatre Company), Macbeth (JUTE), Handyman (Combat Circus). Theatre (as fight director /movement consultant) : Zebra, Hamlet, Tusk Tusk, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Like a Fishbone, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 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), Alaska (Raw Hide / Australian Theatre for Young People), Rio Saki and Other Falling Debris (Australian Theatre for Young People), Bug (Picture This / Griffin) Crestfallen (Bareboards Productions / Griffin), Macbeth, Tosca (Opera Australian), Libertine (Sport For Jove), Daptoe Dogs, 4 Plays About Wollongong (Merrigong Theatre Company), Bad Jazz (square the circle & Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, There Goes the Neighbourhood, Gwen in Purgatory, That Face (Belvoir / Company B), Romeo & Juliet, Just Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Actors at Work 2009, 2010 & 2011, Taming of the Shrew (Bell Shakespeare) Faustus, The Alchemist, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome, Richard III (Bell Shakespeare & Queensland Theatre Company), Macbeth (Brisbane Festival / Queensland Theatre Company), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Black Swan / Queensland Theatre Company), The Removalists, Treasure Island, Toy Symphony, The Crucible, School of Arts, The Crucible, Stones in His Pockets, Heroes, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, The Glass Menagerie, 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 of Marbles, Buried Child, Dirt, The Forest, Fred, Shopping & Fucking, Fountains and Beyond, The Sunshine Club, The Tempest, Long Days Journey into Night (Queensland Theatre Company), Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Odyssey (Zen Zen Zo), Romeo & Juliet (Queensland Ballet), Cosi Fan Tutti, Carmen, Romeo & Juliet (Opera Queensland), oodgeroo, The White Earth, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, TheDanger Age, Summer Wonderland, Last Drinks, 48 Shades of Brown, Way Out West, Excess Baggage, Romeo & Juliet, X-Stacey, The John Wayne Principle, Milk & Honey, As You Like it (La Boite). Theatre (as actor) : An Oak Tree, Grimm Tales, Chilling and Killing My Annabelle Lee, Worlds Apart, Peter Pan (Queensland Theatre Company), Bad Jazz (square the circle & Darlinghurst Theatre Company), The Alchemist (Bell Shakespeare & Queensland TheatreCompany), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Summer Wonderland, Way out West, The Popular Mechanicals, Mr Melancholy, Equus, War Woman (La Boite), Bit’n Back (Kooemba Jdarra), He Died with a Falafel in his Hand, Two, Bouncers (someone). Film (as actor): Mr Reliable, Eat In Or Take Away. Television (as actor) : Terra Nova, Monarch Cove, The Team, Misery Guts, Medivac, Pacific Drive, Phoenix 2, Australia’s Most Wanted. Positions : Scott was the President of the Society of Australian Fight Directors Incorporated from 1996 - 2007, a Honorary Member of the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, Honorary Fight Director of Fight Directors, Canada, Affiliated Member of the Art of Combat and a Honorary Fight Director of the Independent Fight Directors Guild of America and he is currently the Artistic Director of the Intrenational Order of the Sword and the Pen. |
| SCOTT WITT MFA. |
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