The Department of Theatre and Drama welcomes Scott LaFeber, who is directing our production of Happy Birthday, Wanda June. Scott has acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, regionally, in London, and has many television, film, and voice-over credits (including a segment for PBS that received an Emmy Award).
Scott has worked extensively with artists such as Tennessee Williams, Christopher Reeve, Olympia Dukakis and Richard Chamberlain. He has a long association with the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts and has directed across the country for both professional and university theatres. A native of New York, Scott is the artistic director for the New Harmony Theatre, the regional summer theatre in Indiana, and is an associate professor at the University of Southern Indiana's Department of Art, Music and Theatre. He has taught in New York at his Studio for the Working Actor and at the Circle in the Square Theatre School on Broadway.
Scott was trained at Circle in the Square and in London and holds degrees from Colgate University and the University of Texas, Austin.