Biography
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Scott Kaiser is a member of the artistic staff at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, where he serves as Director of Company Development as well as Head of Voice and Text. In twenty-one seasons at OSF, Scott has been the voice and text director on 92 productions. He has directed, adapted, coached, or acted in every play in Shakespeare’s canon.
Scott is the author of two books: Shakespeare’s Wordcraft, published by Limelight Editions, and Mastering Shakespeare: An Acting Class in Seven Scenes, published by Allworth Press. Both books are being used in theatre conservatories and university classrooms across the country.
Scott has created several original works and adaptations for the theatre. These include OSF’s critically acclaimed productions of Shakespeare’s three Henry the Sixth plays, which he also co-directed; Now This, an exploration of the human consequences of American consumer culture which premiered at the Quintero Theatre at the University of Houston; and Splittin’ the Raft, a retelling of the Huck Finn story through the eyes of African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, which was seen at the Marin Theatre Company in California, and the People’s Light and Theatre Company in Pennsylvania.
Scott has coached, taught, and directed at numerous theaters and actor training programs around the country, including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the Intiman Theater in Seattle, California Institute of the Arts, Indiana University, Duke University, the University of Washington, the University of Utah, Southern Oregon University, the D’ell Arte School of Physical Theater, and Rose Bruford College in England.
Scott holds an ADVS from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, an MFA from the University of Washington Professional Actor Training Program in Seattle, and a BA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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