Scott Plate, Assistant Professor and Program Manager of Music Theatre, is an award-winning free-lance performing artist and director whose work is featured frequently on Northeast Ohio’s stages. His directing and acting work has been seen regionally in Atlanta at the Alliance Theatre, the Actor's Express, and the Neighborhood Playhouse, at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise, ID, and on North Carolina's Outer Banks in The Lost Colony. During his fifteen-year residency in Cleveland he has worked on over seventy-five productions, at such venues as Severance Hall, The Cleveland Play House, Cain Park, Porthouse Theatre, Dobama Theatre, the Halle Theatre at JCC, and Cleveland Public Theatre. Selected area acting work includes Thom Pain...based on nothing, Hamlet, Angels in America, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Homebody/Kabul, Cherry Docs, Batboy: The Musical, The Last Five Years, and A Christmas Carol. At Baldwin-Wallace, he appeared as a guest artist in a production of Equus, directed by Victoria Bussert. He directed the North American premiere of a new translation of Sophocles' Antigone by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, and productions of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and Jason Robert Brown's Parade. Selected area directing work includes Blackbird, Take Me Out, Closer, and The Waiting Room for Dobama, The Rocky Horror Show and Pulp for Cleveland Public Theatre, and Mrs. Warren's Profession for the Beck Center. He was a directing fellow under Kenny Leon at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, where he assisted on the Southeastern premiere of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and the world premiere of Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West, and where he directed productions of La Ronde and The Imaginary Cuckold for its theatre school. He has over two hundred on-camera and voice-over recording credits in local, national, and international commercials and industrial films, as well as a featured role in the HBO pictures release “Proximity.” He holds an MFA in Theatre from Florida State University.
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