Phaedra Scott

Phaedra Scott is a Boston based director, dramaturg and writer. Phaedra has been a part of the artistic departments of Cleveland Play House, Huntington Theatre Company and Company One Theatre. Recent dramaturgy credits include Dear (MCC Theatre), Homecoming Queen (New Harmony Project), Ole White Sugar Daddy (The Boston Project, SpeakEasy Stage), She (HERE Performing Arts), Pearl's in the House (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Can You Forgive Her? (Huntington Theatre Company). Directing Credits Include: I Don't Know (Company One), Every 28 Hours (Company One/MFA). She has assistant directed The Who and The What (Huntington Theatre Company), Bedroom Farce (Huntington Theatre Company), An Octoroon (Company One). Phaedra is an arts and culture reporter for wbur. She is the recipient of the Bly Creative Capacity Grant as resident dramaturg for the national organization Black Theatre Commons. She has also received the 2017 Boston Project Playwrighting Grant for her play DIASPORA!, the Comegys Bight Fellowship and the Frederick Douglass Fellowship for her work on August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle. www.phaedrascott.com