Scott served as the The Road Theatre Company’s Associate Artistic Director, a position he held from 2011-2019.
Scott began his acting career studying at the legendary Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. he then studied at Washington’s Studio Theatre and worked extensively there before getting his M.F.A. at San Francisco’s prestigious American Conservatory Theatre. He began working in Los Angeles upon graduation landing guest starring roles on television and films such as MAGNOLIA, MOUSEHUNT, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, STARGATE, DÉJÀ VU, BEWITCHED, X-FILES: THE MOVIE and most recently A MATTER OF FAITH. He serves as the Associate Artistic Director of the award-winning Road Theatre Company and has been the Summer Playwrights Festival (the largest new play reading series in the nation) Festival Director since it began in 2010. At The Road he has directed the critical hit Melissa Arctic by Craig Wright (LA Times Critic’s Pick), Sovereign Body (world premiere, Don Shirley’s 25 best plays in Los Angeles of 2014 list), That Good Night (world premiere and Ovation Recommended) and Lady by Craig Wright (4 Ovation nominations and 5 LA Weekly Award nominations with 2 wins) Scott also directed New York Mets (ADA nominated) and So Nice to See You (1 Dramalogue award), and The Petoskey Stones. At Pepperdine he has directed The Yellow Boat, Almost, Maine, These Shining Lives, Three Days of Rain, Bus Stop, Proof (with Michael O’Neill), The Roads to Home. Other directing credits include: Bus Stop (at Spokane’s Interplayers Theater – People’s Choice Award), Tabak (The Met), Lynette at 3AM, Mr. Happiness, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Elizabeth Sampson’s play Bringin’ Home the Girl. He has assistant-directed Mother Courage, Light (Theater@Boston Court ) and True West (Deaf West Theater). Scott is co-author along with Adam Paul of King of the Moon which ran Off-Off Broadway, in Los Angeles at the Groundlings Theater and HBO Workspace. He co-wrote and produced the film version which and was made for FOX Searchlab and premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. He directed Ed Harris for the L.A. Philharmonic’s 2005 Season Opening Gala at Disney Hall, and Heart…Beat for the Boston Court’s Music at the Court series. As an Associate Artist at the New American Theatre he directed The Adding Machine.
Scott’s lengthy acting career includes The Dinosaur Within (Theatre@Boston Court – Stage Scene L.A. Award), Apollo (Taper Too), Richard III (with Alfred Molina), King of the Moon, Kindertransport, Detachments, The Memorandum, The Water Engine, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Rose Tattoo. Scott has also appeared regionally at the Studio Theater, Scena and the Source Theater, as well as in New York at the Present Company where his two-man show, King of the Moon, ran to sold-out houses. His over 100 appearances in television and film include playing Kate Walsh’s therapist on ‘Private Practice’ appearing in 21 episodes. Other TV credits include ‘Scandal’, ‘Switched at Birth’, ‘Rosewood’, ‘Scorpion’, ‘The Fosters’, ‘State of Affairs’ ‘Revenge’ ‘Newsroom’ (with Jeff Daniels), ‘Rizzoli and Isles’, ‘Murder in the First’, ‘Hung’, ‘CSI: Miami’, ‘CSI:NY’, ‘CSI’, ‘Medium’, ‘NCIS’, ‘NCIS:LA’, ‘Cold Case’, ‘Without a Trace’, ‘Next’, ‘Rules of Engagement’, ‘Bones’, ‘Three Rivers’, ‘True Blood’, ‘House’, ‘Chuck’, ‘The Closer’, ‘Veronica Mars’, ‘Big Love’, ‘Entourage’, ‘Justice’, ‘Philly’ (recurring), ‘NYPD: Blue’, ‘Boston Legal’, ‘Six Feet Under’, ’24’, ‘JAG’, ‘Alias’, a recurring role as Dr. Jack Gannon on ‘The Young and the Restless’, and others. Scott’s film credits include “ A Matter of Faith”, “The Curse of Sleeping Beauty”, “Stargate”, “Mousehunt”, “D.C.9/11”, “Magnolia”, “Déjà Vu”, “Bewitched”, “The Ring”, “X-Files: The Movie”, and “Bounce”. He is also featured in the documentary, No Net about making intimate theater in Los Angeles. Scott trained at Arena Stage and the Studio Theater before earning his MFA from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, SDC and the Actor’s Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, and is also a proud alumnus of the Director’s Lab West ‘05. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Pepperdine University, and a lecturer at Cal State Northridge and UCLA.
