Seret Scott
Seret Scott has directed more than 100 professional theater productions since the late 1980s. Her resume spans the entire American regional theater, including a dozen productions alone at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre as an Associate Artist. Her off-Broadway directing credits include New Victory Theatre, Second Stage, Pan Asian Rep, and Playwrights Horizons. Regionally, Scott has directed with more than 25 companies, including Court Theatre in Chicago, Yale Rep, Westport Country Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, South Coast Rep, L.A. Theatre Works, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Two River Theatre, George Street Playhouse, The National Black Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Indiana Rep, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Studio Theatre, Atlas Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Crossroads Theatre, PlayMakers Rep, Alliance Theatre, and Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, among many others. University directing credits include NYU-Tisch, Juilliard, Fordham, The Acting Company, and University of Maryland.
Scott has been invited to read from her journals, Artist Housing and Owl Attacks, at almost two dozen universities and forums. The narratives chronicle the creative and personal 35-year (and counting) journey of a Black Woman theater director and actress. Scott has participated in playwriting and directing workshops with Sundance Labs, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, New Harmony, Pacific Playwright’s Conference, and New York Stage and Film. She received a playwrighting/directing residency at the National Theatre Institute; a playwright’s residency at McCarter Theatre Center; and a directors residency at Sundance Labs in Arles, France. She is a former Director-In-Residence with New Dramatists and a PEW/TCG Artist Residency grantee with Long Wharf Theatre. Scott assistant directed Washington, DC’s Constitution Hall celebration honoring the installation of the MLK Statue on the National Mall.
Seret’s play, Second Line, recalling her experiences in the Free Southern Theater/Civil Rights Movement, 1969, was produced by Passage Theatre in New Jersey and Atlas Theatre in Washington, DC. She is the creator of INSIGHT/SECOND SIGHT, a project that introduces diverse communities to the narratives, back-stories, and life-changing moments of individuals whose lives have been widely acclaimed or perhaps, quietly extraordinary. She’s currently working on the libretto of her light opera, Quarte Face.
As an actress, Scott’s performances include dozens of Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theater credits. She made her Broadway debut in 1974 with My Sister, My Sister, for which she received a Drama Desk Award; she was also part of the original Broadway cast of For Colored Girls. Film credits include Kathleen Collin’s classic film, Losing Ground.
Scott received her Bachelor’s degree from The New School. She’s a former member of the Puffin Foundation Artistic Advisory Board and is currently on the Executive Board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).