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Conservatory of Performing Arts

Scott Wise

Assistant Professor

Contact information

Education

  • M.F.A., Theatre, Point Park University
  • B.S., Health Planning and Administration, Pennsylvania State University

Courses Taught

  • Musical Theatre Technique
  • Stage Movement

Professional Memberships

  • Taliesin Preservation Inc.
  • The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
  • The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation

Selected Artistic Works

  • Thoroughly Modern Millie, Director, Pittsburgh Playhouse 
  • Peer Gynt, (adaptation with Douglas Levine), Director, The REP
  • Eastburn Avenue (world premiere), Director, The REP
  • Streets of America (world premiere), Director, Pittsburgh Playhouse
  • The Frogs, Director, Pittsburgh Playhouse 
  • Floyd Collins, Director, Pittsburgh Playhouse
  • Red (world premiere), Director, Pittsburgh Playhouse
  • Side Show, Director, Pittsburgh Playhouse
  • A New Brain, Director, Pittsburgh Playhouse 
  • Pride and Prejudice, Director, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre
  • James Joyce's The Dead, Director, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre
  • The Last Five Years, Director, Jewish Theatre of Pittsburgh
  • Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge (world premiere), Choreographer, City Theatre
  • Jane Eyre, Director, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre

Research Interests

  • Elizabethan and Jacobean social culture and theatre
  • The modernist movement in Pittsburgh
  • The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
  • The life and architecture of Taliesin apprentices Peter Berndtson and Cornelia Brierly

Selected Award

  • Choreography Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts