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UPCOMING EVENTS

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 SOCIETY Theatre's Inaugural Production at The New OHIO's Ice Factory 2020
SOCIETY, the NYC based theatre company co-founded by Scott, premieres their first production, Beginning Days of True Jubilation by Mona Mansour, as a part of The New OHIO's Ice Factory Festival 2020. The show runs July 24-26, 2020. Tickets are a $10 donation and available via the links above.
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Scott's Book Now Available at All Booksellers
Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning is now available in paperback and digital form. Order it from Routledge, Amazon, or your independent bookstore. ​It is a comprehensive workbook for actors and teachers alike including over 50 innovative exercises. It leads actors through a step-by step examination of their own habits, links those discoveries to creating characters, preparing auditions, and offers dozens of exercises to explore in classrooms and with ensembles.
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Scott Illingworth and Mona Mansour launch new theatre company, SOCIETY.
A new NYC-based theatre company, co-led by playwright Mona Mansour and director Scott Illingworth, will create new work using a method of rigorous research, improvisation, and discussion. Roughly modeled after London's Joint Stock Company, Society will see ensemble members act as active dramaturgs, generating material for a playwright via interviews, recordings, physical explorations, and open conversation. Read more on Playbill.com
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Scott's book Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning​ is available for pre-order.
​It is a comprehensive workbook for actors and teachers alike including over 50 innovative exercises. It leads actors through a step-by step examination of their own habits, links those discoveries to creating characters, preparing auditions, and offers dozens of exercises to explore in classrooms and with ensembles. Get it now on Amazon or in stores beginning March 20th, 2020.
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New Adaptation of Animal Farm in Kyiv.
Scott spent May and June of 2019 working on a new adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm at Theatre on Pechersk in Kyiv, Ukraine. During his stay Scott also offered workshops and lectures to nearly a dozen other professional theatres and schools in Kyiv.

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Fulbright Grant
​Scott received a 2019 Fulbright Specialist Grant to travel to Kyiv, Ukraine. He will work with Theatre on Pechersk on a new adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm as well as offer workshops and lectures to the Ukrainian theatrical community.


NYU|TISCH Graduate Acting faculty video series
A new series of faculty videos was released by NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Acting Program this fall. Check out one of three videos by Scott speaking about his work in the program and a bit about Physical Actioning.
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