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Scott is a lighting designer and educator working in a diverse array of performance mediums, including theater, dance, music and opera.
His work has been seen in venues throughout the world including the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Benaki Museum (Athens), Brooklyn Academy of Music, Guggenheim Museum NYC, German Republic Theater (Kazakhstan),Goodspeed Opera, Judson Church, Lincoln Center Festival, Melkweg (Amsterdam), Playmakers Repertory Company, Prototype Festival, Radialsystem V (Berlin), Segerstrom Concert Hall, Spreehalle (Berlin), Studio Theater and Walt Disney Concert Hall. His work for dance includes designs for Shen Wei Dance Arts, Ate9 Dance Company, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, David Dorfman, KTDance, Parijat Desai Dance Company, Atlas Dance and Aiko Kinoshita. His long history of collaborations with Robert Wilson includes "Der Sandmann" (Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus), "Zinnias" (Peak Performances), "The Odyssey" (National Theater of Greece) and "KOOL" (Guggenheim NYC) as well as the exhibition "The Hat Makes the Man" at the Max Ernst Museum. (Brühl, Germany). Scott is an Assistant Professor at California State University Fullerton and has served as an adjunct professor at Colorado College and Montclair State University, a teaching artist at the Brown-Trinity Rep Consortium, and a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Drama and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Scott is a founding member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and a co-creator, with Burke Brown, of the Wingspace Mentorship Program, a free, one-year program designed to broaden access and disrupt barriers early-career designers encounter while trying to advance their careers in the performing arts He is also a co-creator and co-producer of CSU Design Forum, a webinar series that brings together artists, educators and makers from across the country in order to share their experience and knowledge with the students of CSU and the greater community. Scott is an avid hiker and backpacker and when not in the theater can often be found scaling his way up a mountain to enjoy the views from the top. |
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PERSONAL STATEMENT AGAINST RACISM AND OPRESSION
The power of collaborative thinking, the kind of thinking that defines us as designers, comes from resonating individual ideas against each other and shaping that resonance into a vision more powerful than the sum of its parts. There are many voices that have been excluded or minimized in both our performing arts communities and our society at large. We have an artistic and a moral obligation to ensure that those voices are not only heard but empowered.
I acknowledge that this nation was founded upon exclusions and erasures of many Indigenous people's cultures and stories. I further wish to acknowledge the enslaved people, primarily of African descent, whose labor built much of the wealth of this country and recognize my own complicity in the white supremacy that continues to inflict damage upon their descendants.
I promise to take active steps against this continuing damage, including:
Finally, I wish to offer sincere thanks to the many women, persons of color, transgender individuals and others who have spent time and effort to educate me. I promise to keep working and learning in honor of those efforts.
The power of collaborative thinking, the kind of thinking that defines us as designers, comes from resonating individual ideas against each other and shaping that resonance into a vision more powerful than the sum of its parts. There are many voices that have been excluded or minimized in both our performing arts communities and our society at large. We have an artistic and a moral obligation to ensure that those voices are not only heard but empowered.
I acknowledge that this nation was founded upon exclusions and erasures of many Indigenous people's cultures and stories. I further wish to acknowledge the enslaved people, primarily of African descent, whose labor built much of the wealth of this country and recognize my own complicity in the white supremacy that continues to inflict damage upon their descendants.
I promise to take active steps against this continuing damage, including:
- Self-Education: dedicating time to learn about more about the histories and present effects of racism, sexism, transphobia, ableism and other oppressions, with particular consideration for the effects of intersectionality on how these oppressions are felt.
- Self-Reflection: defining and owning my own privileges and considering how they might blind me and cause harm to others.
- Listening: listening to the voices of Black people, Indigenous people and People of Color, accepting the truths they share, and amplifying those voices whenever possible.
- Speaking up: empowering myself to speak up against racism, sexism and ableism, whether or not those who would be harmed are in the room.
- Reparations: making personal, considered, monthly donations to anti-racist causes.
- Purchasing: purchasing from companies owned by Black people, Indigenous people and People of Color.
Finally, I wish to offer sincere thanks to the many women, persons of color, transgender individuals and others who have spent time and effort to educate me. I promise to keep working and learning in honor of those efforts.