Brian Torrey Scott

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.Fact|date=February 2008 He was known as a gifted student early on and was encouraged by his proud mother to try whatever he liked. He excelled in schoolFact|date=February 2008 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 while at SMU. In 2001, BTS was awarded a spot in the Master's Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He continues writing and directing across the globe.

External links

* [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Fall05/Scott.html "Directions"] (Tarpaulin Sky, Fall 2005)
* [http://www.dragcity.com/catalog/records/dc306.html "Detail From The Mountain Side"] (Drag City Records)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYLyR1kVibs "We Were the World"] (Rhinoceros Theater Festival 2007)