Brian Torrey Scott

Brian Torrey Scott (July 28, 1976 – November 30, 2013) was an American writer. He wrote for Rosetta Stone in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Scott previously taught Adventures and Ridiculousness at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and English at Columbia College Chicago.^[1]

Biography

Scott was born on July 28, 1976 in Dallas, Texas to Torrie (Scott) Lloyd, a Realtor and his brother Andrew Scott, an adventurer and real estate entrepreneur. He graduated from Richardson High School as a National Honor Society Scholar and had performed his first award winning play, EZRA, in 1994. He received his BA degree from Southern Methodist University with honors in 1998 where he was a winner of the New Visions New Voices competition . In 2001, Scott was awarded a place in the Master's Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Brian earned a coveted spot at Brown University where he would earn his PHD in Theater and Performance Studies in Providence, Rhode Island.

Scott's 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.

Scott has traveled the world writing and directing award winning plays and films. Many of his films have been featured in international film festivals. In 2010 he received an honor at the Madrid Film Festival.

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 in 2006.

Scott died on November 30, 2013 following a courageous battle with colon cancer.^[2]

Works

Stage plays

• Ezra (1994)
• Histrionica with Banjo (1998)
• Picture of a Dog (2000)
• Histrionica with Banjo (2002)
• One Two Three Four Five (2002)
• Tuning in to the Power of Active Listening (2003)
• Wheat Studies, 1888, Kansas (2003)
• Understanding Shyness (2003)
• Sound and Telling (2003)
• The Casual Family (2003)
• Air Tact Light (2004)
• Chapter 5/The Alice Project (2004)
• Transportation (2004)
• Discarded Landscape (2005)
• Detail From the Mountain Side (2005)
• Right-Handed Saw Left-Handed (2006)
• We Were the World (2007)
• Anthology (2008)
• Anthology 3 (2009)
• Decline of Ballooning (2010)
• " Green Candle" ( 2013) Snail Press

Film/Video

• Acquaintance (1999)
• Glass Jaw (2000)
• The Objects of Living (2007)
• Death is the Road to Awe (2008)
• Ganzfeld (2012)
• Hierophant (2012)
• Isthmus (Post-production)
• Obelisk (Pre-production)

References

External links

• Official website
• Directions (Tarpaulin Sky, Fall 2005)
• Detail From The Mountain Side (Drag City Records)
• We Were the World on YouTube (Rhinoceros Theater Festival 2007)