SCOTT HARMAN
Curriculum Vitae
scottaharman@gmail.com
he/him/his
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison (in progress)
Dissertation: “Methods, not ‘The Method:’ An Analysis and Differentiation of the Theories of Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner Using Concepts from the Cognitive Sciences” Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Mary Trotter
Committee: Dr. Manon Van de water, Dr. Michael Peterson, Dr. Paula Niedenthal
M.A. in Theatre History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
Thesis: “Attention, Absorption, and Habit: The Stanislavsky ‘System’ Approached as a Cognitive Process Using the Theatre of Consciousness Model of Bernard Baars”
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Valleri Robinson (Hohman)
B.A. in Theatre and Dance, Departmental Honors, Alma College, Alma, MI, 1999
Theses: Acting (Dysart in Equus) and Directing (Extremities)
Coursework with Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2020-Present
Courses: Best Practices; Intimacy Choreography; Theatrical Studio Techniques, Casting, and Policy; Trauma-Informed Practices; Foundations of Race, Consent and Intimacy
AWARDS/HONORS/GRANTS
Outstanding Faculty Member, Aquinas College, 2021
National Endowment for the Arts Project Grant ($10,000), 2020
Letter of Recognition for Student Success and Retention (mySuccessCheck), GVSU, 2019
English 100 Outstanding Teacher Award, UW-Madison Department of English, 2017-18
Twenty Year Service Award, Interlochen Center for the Arts, 2018
Winning Playwright, Marcia Légère Student Play Festival, 2018
Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Housing, 2017
Helen K. Herman Memorial Scholarship, UW-Madison Dept. of Theatre and Drama, 2014
Margaret Emma Williams Scholarship, UW-Madison Department of Theatre and Drama, 2013
William Elliot Scholarship, UW-Madison Department of Theatre and Drama, 2012
University Fellowship, UW-Madison, 2010, 2014
Wilbur B. Menefee Fellowship, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois, 2008 Departmental Honors, Department of Theatre and Dance, Alma College, 1999
Nominee, KC/ACTF Irene Ryan, Alma College, 1998
SERVICE
Production Respondent — KCACTF, 2022-Present
Academic Master Planning Committee — Aquinas College, 2023-Present
Committee on Assessment – Aquinas College, 2021-2023
Joint Operating Committee – Aquinas College Performing Arts Center, 2020-Present
Co-President - Theatre and Drama Graduate Student Org. UW-Madison, 2013-14, 2018-19
Conference Co-Chair/Organizer - TDGSO, UW-Madison, 2012-2013
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Aquinas College
Department of Communication-Theatre Program
Assistant Professor of Theatre/Director of Theatre Production, 2021-Present
Courses: Contemporary World Theatre, Acting I, Script Analysis, Stage Directing I, Stage Directing II, Theatre History I & II, Theatre for Youth and Education, Theatre for Social Change, Theatre for Everyone, Theatre Management, Camp on Stage & Screen, Theatre Practicum, Senior Capstone
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre, 2020-2021
Courses: Theatre for Social Change, Contemporary World Theatre, Theatre History I, Stage Directing I, Stage Directing II, Acting, Theatre for Everyone, Theatre Practicum, Senior Capstone
Adjunct Professor of Theatre, 2019-2020
Courses: Contemporary World Theatre, Theatre for Everyone
Grand Valley State University
Department of Music, Theatre and Dance – Adjunct Instructor, 2019-2020
Courses: Introduction to Theatre, Touring Theatre Production, Acting: Process (Acting I), Acting: Characterization (Acting II), Music, Art, and Theatre for Elementary Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of English – Teaching Assistant, 2016-2019
Courses: Introduction to College Composition, Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, Introduction to Ethnic and Multicultural Literature: Performing Race in America
Integrated Liberal Studies Program – Teaching Assistant, 2016
Course: Western Culture: Literature and the Arts
Department of Theatre and Drama – Teaching Assistant, 2011-2014
Courses: Drama in Education, Introduction to Theatre and Dramatic Literature
Interlochen Center for the Arts
Division of Theatre Arts – Instructor/Program Director, 2006-Present
Interlochen Arts Camp Programs: Intermediate Repertory Theatre Production/Intermediate Acting Company Production, Intermediate Theatre Ensemble/Workshop
Interlochen Arts Academy Courses: The History of Acting, Acting Technique, Audition Technique, Theatre Company
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Theatre – Graduate Assistant, 2008-2010
INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Properties Shop
Parkland College
Department of Fine and Applied Arts – Adjunct Instructor, 2008-2010
Course: Theatre Appreciation
Alma College
Department of Theatre and Dance
Guest Artist, 2002-2003
Courses: Acting, Theatre Company, Voice and Speech: Linklater/Shakespeare (Co-Instructor), Great Ages of the Theatre I & II (Asst.), Directing
Visiting Instructor/Technical Director, 2001-2002
Courses: Production Crafts, Acting, Theatre Company, Directing (Asst.)
Teaching Intern, 1999-2000
Courses: Acting (Asst.), Intermediate Acting (Asst.), Theatre Company
Acting – Instructor (Fall 2001- Winter 2003), Teaching Assistant (1999-2000)
PUBLICATIONS
“Who is Being Triggered?: Consent, Trauma, and Power in the Acting Classroom.” HowlRound. Emerson University (30 January 2019) [LINK]
“An Acting Teacher in a Composition Classroom.” CompPost. UW-Madison First-Year Writing Program (28 February 2019) [LINK]
INVITED TALKS/PUBLIC APPEARANCES
“Waiting for Lefty: Context and Conflict” Aquinas College, 2023
Interview on Failure: A Love Story, “WGVU Morning Show with Shelley Irwin,” WGVU Radio, 2023
Interview on 9 to 5, “eightWest,” WOOD-TV, 2023
Master Classes in Acting and Devising/Story Structure, Liberty Academy (Mooresville/Charlotte, NC), 2018
“The Only Shake-scene in My Country: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept that Shakespeare was Probably Shakespeare” Shakespeare Authorship Symposium, Interlochen Center for the Arts, 2017
“Chekhov, Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre” UW-Madison, 2014
“Alone at the Piano: The History behind The Cradle Will Rock” Production Symposium, UW-Madison, 2012
“Alone at the Piano: The History behind The Cradle Will Rock” UW Retirement Association Meeting, 2012
Interview on The Cradle Will Rock, “Books & Beats,” WXXM-FM Radio, 2012
PANELS/SEMINARS
“Rethinking the Revolution: The Cradle Will Rock as lehrstück” Mid-America Theatre Conference Theatre History Symposium, 2022
“From Heresies to Hermeneutics: Revolutionizing Meisner Pedagogy for the Consent-Based Acting Classroom” Mid-America Theatre Conference Pedagogy Symposium, 2022
“A Second Opinion: The Group Theatre and the Character of the American Actor” Mid-America Theatre Conference Theatre History Symposium, 2020
“‘With Courtesy and Respect Enough:’ Choosing Originality over ‘Original Practices’ in Julius Caesar” Grand Valley State University Shakespeare Conference, 2018
“Affective Reconstructions: The Arousal of Emotion/Memory in the So-Called ‘Method’” American Society for Theatre Research (Working Group/Virtual Meeting), 2018
“Affective Reconstructions: Associative Networks, Emotion/Memory, and the So-Called ‘Method’” UW-Madison TDGSO Conference, 2018
“An Inconvenient Fiction: Using Consciousness to Untangle the So-Called ‘Method’” Mid-America Theatre Conference Pedagogy Symposium, 2018
“‘Soul-Killing Witches that Deform the Body:’ The Comedy of Errors, Gender and the Preteen Actor” Grand Valley State University Shakespeare Conference 2016
“Keep Calm and Stop Torturing the Pilot: The UK Ship of State from Heartbreak House to Doctor Who” UW-Madison TDGSO Conference 2016
“‘Yo, Diderot is the Worst!’: Rethinking Theatre History for the Preprofessional Actor” Mid-America Theatre Conference Pedagogy Symposium 2016
“The Ideal Actor: The Different Selves of the “Method” UW-Madison TDGSO Conference 2015
“Life’s for the Livers: Viscera as Sign Schema in The Gut Girls” UW-Madison TDGSO Conference 2014
“The Cradle Will Rock as Lehrstück” UW-Madison TDGSO Conference 2013
“Female Untroubled: The Divine Assimilation of Edna Turnblad” Midwest Area Popular Cultural Association Conference, 2011
“The Principal’s Kid: A Collaborative Devising Methodology for Young Actors” Mid-America Theatre Conference Pedagogy Symposium, 2011.
“Female Untroubled: The Divine Assimilation of Edna Turnblad” UW-Madison TDGSO Conference 2011
“Absorbed State/Creative State: Attention and Consciousness in the Stanislavsky ‘System’” UW-Madison TDGSO Conference 2010
PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE (Selected)
Directing/Devising/Playwriting
Director
Oil & Sugar
Actors’ Theatre Grand Rapids
2023
Director
Failure: A Love Story
Aquinas College
2023
Director/Playwright
Alice and the Jabberwocky
Interlochen Arts Camp
2023
Director
Ada and the Engine
Aquinas College
2023
Director
9 to 5
Aquinas College
2023
Director
The Thanksgiving Play
Aquinas College
2022
Director/Adapter
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Interlochen Arts Camp
2022
Director
Big Smoke
Aquinas College
2022
Director
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)
Aquinas College
2021
Director
Now. Here. This. (Flexible Version)
Aquinas College
2021
Director
One of Our Own (Devised Project)
Aquinas College
2020
Director
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Interlochen Arts Camp
2020
Director
Bard to Go: Tossing on the Ocean
Grand Valley State University
2019
Director
Radium Girls
Interlochen Arts Camp
2019
Director
Distance From Home
TDGSO Ten Minute Play Festival
2019
Playwright
Just Two More Minutes
TDGSO Ten Minute Play Festival
2019
Playwright
The Wendy
Liberty Academy
2018
Director/Adapter
Julius Caesar
Interlochen Arts Camp
2018
Playwright
A Culture of Life
Marcia Légère Student Play Festival
2018
Director/Adapter
Green Show
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2017-19, 2022-23
Director
The Snow
Interlochen Arts Camp
2017
Director/Adapter
The Comedy of Errors
Interlochen Arts Camp
2016
Director
30 Neo-Futurist Plays from ‘Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind’ (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)
Interlochen Arts Academy
2015
Director/Playwright
The Wendy
Interlochen Arts Camp
2015
Associate Director
At the Ark at Eight
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2014-15
Director
The Winter’s Tale
Interlochen Arts Camp
2014
Guest Director
30 Neo-Futurist Plays from ‘Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind’ (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)
Parallel 45 (Traverse City, MI)
2014
Director/Deviser
Found Object Theatre
UW-Madison TDGSO
2013
Director
Our Town
Interlochen Arts Camp
2013
Director
Waiting Room
Impulse 24/7 (UIUC)
2008
Director
A Perfect Sonnet (reading)
Cardboard Box Collective (Philadelphia, PA)
2006
Assistant Director (to Kevin Glaccum)
Four
Azuka Theatre (Philadelphia, PA)
2005
Assistant Director (to Raelle Myrick-Hodges)
An Artist’s Workshop
Azuka Theatre
2004
Director
All in the Timing
Alma College
2003
Director
The Heidi Chronicles
Alma College
2003
Director
Extremities
Alma College
1999
Dramaturgy
Dramaturg
The Cradle Will Rock (dir. Norma Saldivar)
UW-Madison
2012
Dramaturg
The Crucible (dir. Robert Anderson)
UIUC
2009
Asst. Dramaturg
The Three Sisters (dir. Brant Pope)
UIUC
2008
Acting
CASKA/CINNA THE POET
Julius Caesar
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2023
BRABANTIO
Othello
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2022
FATHER
Paradise Lost
Actors’ Theatre of Grand Rapids
2020 (Cancelled)
STANLEY
Richard III
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2019
LEONATO
Much Ado About Nothing
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2018
CURAN
King Lear
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2017
JOHN OF GAUNT
Richard II
Madison (WI) Shakespeare Company
2017
O’CONNOR
All the Best, Jack
NovaLight Artistry (Madison, WI)
2014
ALONSO
The Tempest
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2014
STURDYVANT
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
UW-Madison
2012
DR. PARKER
Bat Boy: The Musical
UW-Madison
2011
GHOST/PRIEST
Hamlet
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2013
TRAINER
Elephant’s Graveyard
The Antagonists (Madison, WI)
2011
DUNCAN
Macbeth
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2010
BAPTISTA
Taming of the Shrew
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2009
ANTONIO
Twelfth Night
Interlochen Shakespeare Festival
2008
DR. PROSPERO
Return to the Forbidden Planet
Parkland College
2008
DYSART
Equus
Rutgers Underground Theatre
2003
CHEBUTIKIN
Three Sisters
Alma College
2002
DYSART
Equus
Alma College
1998
CERVANTES/QUIXOTE
Man of La Mancha
Alma College
1997
Technical
Producer/Production Manager
Head Over Heels
Aquinas College
2022
Producer/Production Manager
Student-Directed One-Act Play Festival
Aquinas College
2021
Producer/Production Manager
Sez She
Aquinas College
2021
Producer/Production Manager
Antigone
Aquinas College
2020
Producer/Production Manager
Ten Minute Play Festival
UW-Madison
2017
Technical Produciton Manager
Various
INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre (UIUC)
2008-9
Master Electrician
Various/Staff
Philadelphia Theatre Company
2006-7
Venue Manager
Various
Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe
2004-7
Freelance Carpenter/
Rigger/Electrician
Various
Philadelphia, PA Area theatres and production companies
2003-7
Summer Technical Director
Various
Interlochen Arts Camp
2000, 2003-5
Carpenter/Master Carpenter
Various
Interlochen Arts Camp
1997-99