Jean Bruce Scott
(producer, director, actor, dramaturg, creative consultant, casting consultant). As Producing Executive Director and co-founder emeritus, with Randy Reinholz, of Native Voices at the Autry, Scott has spent over 25 years developing new plays, including more than 200 by Native American playwrights resulting in 232 workshops and 277 public staged readings. For Native Voices, she has produced 39 plays (including 22 world premieres), 25 New Play Festivals, 9 Short play Festivals, 15 Playwrights Retreats, and more than 20 national and international tour dates. She is co-creator of the Native Radio Theater Project, a collaboration between Native Voices and Native American Public Telecommunications which produced 15 radio plays, and the Alaska Native Playwrights Project mentoring...
Jean Bruce Scott
(producer, director, actor, dramaturg, creative consultant, casting consultant). As Producing Executive Director and co-founder emeritus, with Randy Reinholz, of Native Voices at the Autry, Scott has spent over 25 years developing new plays, including more than 200 by Native American playwrights resulting in 232 workshops and 277 public staged readings. For Native Voices, she has produced 39 plays (including 22 world premieres), 25 New Play Festivals, 9 Short play Festivals, 15 Playwrights Retreats, and more than 20 national and international tour dates. She is co-creator of the Native Radio Theater Project, a collaboration between Native Voices and Native American Public Telecommunications which produced 15 radio plays, and the Alaska Native Playwrights Project mentoring more than 28 Alaska Native playwrights. In 2014 Scott was instrumental in formalizing the Native Voices Artists Ensemble to mentor and support outstanding and promising Native American writers, actors, directors, stage managers, and producers. She has been a creative and casting consultant on numerous films, television shows, and stage plays. Her illustrious background includes extensive theatre credits and serving as president of Sine Bahn Productions, an independent production company noted for developing screenplays, teleplays, and stage plays. She is familiar for numerous lead and recurring guest star acting roles on Days of Our Lives, Magnum, P.I., Port Charles, Newhart, Matlock, Airwolf, and St. Elsewhere, and for having guest starred on a multitude of other series and television movies. Scott has received a McKnight Fellowship, a Map Grant, Playwrights Arena’s Lee Melville Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Gordon Davidson Award, is a Core Partner of ArtChangeUS: Arts in a Changing America a five-year initiative based out of the California Institute of the Arts, on the Board of Trustees for the National Theatre Conference, the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference National Advisory Board. She is Chair of the Bernie and Bernice Stavis Award for the National Theatre Conference, New York honoring an outstanding emerging playwright annually.
World Premieres: Pure Native, Bingo Hall, Fairly Traceable, They Don’t Talk Back, Birdhouse, Stand-Off at Hwy 37, The Frybread Queen, Wings Of Night Sky, Wings Of Morning Light, Salvage, Ghost Lands of An Urban NDN, Walking on Turtle Island, Carbon Black, Stone Heart, The Berlin Blues, Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders: A Class Presentation, The Red Road, Kino and Teresa, Please Do Not Touch The Indians, The BuzGem’ Blues, Jump Kiss, Urban Tattoo, The Baby Blues, Now Look What You Made Me Do... ; Regional: They Don’t Talk Back (La Jolla Playhouse, Perseverance Theatre); The Baby Blues (Pennsylvania Center Stage); Off the Rails (NVA); Tales of an Urban Indian (Public Theatre, NVA); Cikiuteklluku (Out North Performing Arts); The Frybread Queen (Montana Rep, NVA); The Berlin Blues, The Red Road, Stone Heart (NMAI, NV); The Baby Blues (Pennsylvania Center Stage). International: Salvage (Riverside Theatre, London); The Red Road (Adelaide and Brisbane, Australia); Urban Tattoo (Toronto and Alberta, Canada).