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Adjunct Faculty

Virginia Scott

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Virginia Scott
Movement - BFA Acting
Email: vscott@pace.edu

Virginia Scott directs, devises and teaches all kinds of physical theatre including clown, commedia, bouffon, treteau, physical comedy, and melodrama. She created and directs the Commedia Company and Some Clowns who perform original commedia and clown shows respectively. Some Clowns recently enjoyed a residency at the Visionary in Mt. Vision NY and is currently performing all over NYC with the NYC Open Streets program. Notable projects include directing and writing for the 3-man clown group Happy Hour; creating and directing the LA based bouffon performance troupe Les Enfant Maudit; directing and devising an original clown show with the third-year MFA students at ACT; and directing and writing for the long-running off-Broadway circus-comedy, Planet Banana, and directing the BFA actors in Waiting for Godot at SUNY Purchase. Her shows have appeared in New York at The Irish Repertory Theatre, Ars Nova Mainstage, 59E59, The Zipper Theatre, UCB, The PIT, Nuyorican Poet’s Café, The New York Fringe Festival and the International Clown Festival; in Los Angeles at The Comedy Central Theatre, The Hollywood Fringe, UCB LA, Live Arts, The Complex, Symphony in the Glen at the Griffith Park stage and the Fowler museum at UCLA; regionally at The US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen; and internationally at The Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh, The Centaur Theatre in Montreal and the Grahamstown International Festival in South Africa. Virginia teaches/has taught clown, commedia, play, physical acting, and all that kind of wiggling it around at schools such as Brooklyn College (MFA), The Juilliard School, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU: International Theatre Workshop in Amsterdam, Meisner Studio, Stella Adler Studio and Open Arts Studio; CAP 21, Bard College, Montclair State University (BFA), SUNY Purchase (BA & BFA), Pace University, Marymount Manhattan College, Movement Theatre Studio, The Michael Howard Studio. In California she has taught at USC (MFA), ACT (MFA), the Clown School, the Idiot Workshops and Berg Studios. She was a co-founder and faculty member of the Funny School of Good Acting and recently published through TCG Discovering the Clown: the Funny Book of Good Acting by Christopher Bayes with Virginia Scott. Virginia offers physical theatre training and consulting through her studio.