Monday, March 2, 2009

Who's Who in the Crew? Spotlight on: the Producing Executive Director


JEAN BRUCE SCOTT is co-creator of Native Voices at the Autry. She has spent fifteen years developing new plays, including more than fifty by Native American playwrights. At Native Voices, she has produced eleven New Play Festivals; five Playwrights Retreats; over eighty play readings; and thirteen new plays, including Equity productions of The Baby Blues, Jump Kiss, Stone Heart, The Red Road, The Buz'Gem Blues, The Berlin Blues, Please Do Not Touch the Indians, Kino & Teresa, SUPER INDIAN, Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders, Salvage and Métis playwright Marie Clements' Now Look What You Made Me Do and Urban Tattoo, in addition to Joy Harjo's Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light. She has been instrumental in creating the Native Radio Theater Project (NRT), a collaboration between Native Voices at the Autry and the Native American Public Telecommunications, producing new radio plays including: The Best Place to Grow Pumpkins, Melba's Medicine, Why Opossum's Tail is Bare, The Peach Seed, and the pilot and ten episodes of SUPER INDIAN. Her next project for NRT is The Red Road, starring Arigon Starr (Kickapoo), and directed by the legendary Dirk Maggs.


Jeanie is basically amazing. She is so busy, and is still the sweetest woman you will ever meet. Having been around acting her whole life, she has spot-on instincts and shares insight with the cast/production team. She is eloquent and confident, such an eye for detail; she is a wonderful role model. Jeanie has a gift for balancing her two roles: a smart business woman, and a creative artist. I always enjoy when she comes to rehearsals... and not only because she brings delicious brownies!

Recently, she is also our resident photographer! Most of the "Photo of the Day" posts you see are courtesy of her. I don't know what we'd do without her!



1 comment:

carlenne said...

oh, and she's also the best boss ever. =D