Brian Torrey Scott

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Brian Torrey Scott (born 28 July 1976 in Dallas, Texas) is an American writer. His plays have been produced in Dallas, New York City and Chicago. He was the recipient of the 2004 PAC/edge Commission Award, with which he created and directed the collaborative performance Air Tact Light, and a 2005 grant from the Chicago Cultural Affairs Department, which funded in-part the Weather Talking show Discarded Landscape. In 2006, he was an artist-in-residence at Links Hall, Chicago, where he created Left-Handed Saw Right-Handed, a collaboration with Mary Walling Blackburn. Other pieces include We Were the World, Year, Detail From the Mountain Side, Tuning In To the Power of Active Listening / Understanding Shyness, and Wheat Studies, 1888, Kansas.

He has created work for The Curious Theater Branch (Histrionica with Banjo), The Neo-Futurists (Alice), and Lucky Pierre (32 Key Concepts). His writing has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, Preling, and Telophase. The songs he wrote in collaboration with musician Azita Youssefi were released on Drag City Records in 2006. Scott teaches Adventures and Ridiculousness at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and English at Columbia College Chicago.

Brian Torrey Scott is the son of an absent father and single mother.^{[citation needed]} He was known as a gifted student early on and was encouraged by his proud mother to try whatever he liked. He excelled in school^{[citation needed]} and won scholarships to many universities. Not wanting to leave his home town, he remained in Dallas and graduated from SMU with honors in 1998. He was often recognized as an award winning writer, director and actor while at SMU. In 2001, BTS was awarded a spot in the coveted Master's Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After receiving his MFA, he became one of The School's most popular professors. He continues writing and directing across the globe.

Brian likes to drink Kombucha.