Theatre Department Faculty

Scott T. Cummings

Professor

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Scott T. Cummings

Contact

Robsham Theater Arts Center, Room 136

Telephone: 617-552-4614

Email: scott.cummings@bc.edu

Education

  • M.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University
  • D.F.A., Yale School of Drama

Courses

Dramatic Structure and Theatrical Process
Playwriting 1 and Playwriting 2
Contemporary American Theatre and Drama
Shakespeare on the Stage

Research Interests

Contemporary American playwrights and directors
Puppet and object theatre
Dramaturgy and new play development

 

 

 

 

Department

Theatre

Profile

Scott T. Cummings is Professor of Playwriting and Dramatic Literature in the Theatre Department of Boston College, where he served as Chair from 2010 to 2014. His directing work for Boston College includes seven different programs of fully produced original one-acts by BC student playwrights, an original devised work called Ashley's Purpose, and plays by Shakespeare, Marivaux, Beckett, Fornés, and Mee. He is the author or editor of four books on contemporary American playwrights and directors, the most recent of which is The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather  (Routledge, 2022). An active arts journalist and theatre critic, his features and reviews have appeared in American Theatre, the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Globe, and other publications.

Selected Publications

Books

The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather (editor) New York: Routledge (2022)

The Theatre of Naomi Wallace: Embodied Dialogues (co-editor with Erica Stevens Abbitt), New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013)

Maria Irene Fornes (author), Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists, New York: Routledge (2013)

Remaking American Theater: Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company (author), Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2006)

Selected Appointments & Awards

Travis Bogard Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Eugene O'Neill Foundation/Tao House (2017) for "Finding Inspiration: Maria Irene Fornés, Playwriting, Theatre, and Creativity"

Academic Writing Residency, Bellagio Center, Rockefeller Foundation (2015) for "Finding Inspiration: Maria Irene Fornés's Unfinished Manual for Playwrights"

Travel Grant for Bellagio Residency Program, Institute of International Education (2015) for "Finding Inspiration: Maria Irene Fornés's Unfinished Manual for Playwrights"

Marion and Jasper Whiting Fellowship, Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation (2014) for "The Puppet's Promise: A Preliminary Study"

Howard Foundation Fellowship, The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation (2008) for "The Anatomy of Inspiration: The Theater of Maria Irene Fornés"

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