Scott Barrow is an actor and educator at Tectonic Theater Project. He received his BA from the University of Richmond (Spanish and Theatre with an Education Concentration) and later got his MFA in Acting from Brandeis University focusing on Fight Direction. Additionally, Scott trained with Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, MA, working in their much-acclaimed education department as an actor, technical director, and classroom teacher.

Scott has developed residency programs for lower, middle, and high school students with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Shakespeare Society of New York, the Times Square Group, East Side Montessori School, STAGES on the Sound, and the Wang Center; creating arts opportunities for under-served and at-risk youth. Scott’s classroom success and approach stem from a very active place in the American theatre, both as an actor and a fight director.

On Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally, he has collaborated on new works with such luminaries as Moisés Kaufman, Michael Weller, Paul Rudnick, Mark Harelik, Stephen Belber, Eve Ensler, Adam Rapp, and Robert Brustein, while playing major roles at such theatres as New York Theatre Workshop, Tectonic Theater Project, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, The Wilma Theater, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Arden Theatre Company, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, The Mint Theater Company, Nevada Shakespeare Festival, Studio Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Olney Theatre Center, The Vineyard Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, among others.

Currently, Scott’s theatrical introduction to Shakespeare for students reluctant to read his plays (Shakespeare in ACTion) is making its 8th tour, and another play, Outcasts: The Lepers of Penikese Island, is in development.