TCU DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
FACULTY MEMBER

KRISTA SCOTT

Assistant Professor
BFA - Emporia State University
MFA - University of Minnesota

Krista Scott is a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework instructor who arrived at TCU in 2009 as an assistant professor of voice, speech and acting. She has served as the voice/text director for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival’s 2008 and 2009 seasons, and will return again for the 2010 summer. She has also coached the voices and dialects for Casa Mañana, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Mirth--A Theatre Company, the Hangar Theatre, the Kitchen Theatre, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Cornell University, Ithaca College, and Hobart & William Smith Colleges. She is an associate editor for the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) website, and serves as a board member and former treasurer of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association.

Her musical adaption of A Christmas Carol has been performed for six years running at the Metropolis Performing Arts Center in Chicago.  She has taught and/or directed at the University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, Ithaca College, the University of Mississippi, and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Plays she has directed include The Waiting Room, The Laramie Project, Two Rooms, Steel Magnolias, The Bacchae and Kiss Me, Kate.  Among her favorite professional acting roles are Hedda Gabler in Cairo, Barb in Swimming in the Shallows at The Kitchen Theatre, and Rachel in Reckless at The New Tradition Theatre in St. Cloud, Minnesota, which she founded with her husband, Brian Martinson. She holds an MFA degree from the University of Minnesota and a BFA from Emporia State University.