Scott Ross
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Location | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States |
| Introduction | Native of Ohio, resident of Raleigh, NC. B.A. in Playwriting, Hampshire College, Amherst MA, 1990. Author: Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons" (unproduced stage adaptation), "A Liberal Education" (full-length play, produced in '00); "The Dogs of Foo" (full-length, Thompson Theatre Playwright Award winner, produced in May and June '96); "Unreliable Witness" (One-act, Raleigh Ensemble Players, Feb. '91); "Living Room" (Full-length, Hampshire College, May '90); "Past Caring" (One-act play, REP, Sept. '87). Periodical writing: Theatre critic, Classical Voice North Carolina (cvnc.org) '03-present; CD/DVD critic for The Sondheim Review (National quarterly, Fall '94-Winter '04; The Independent Weekly (Film and theatre); Raleigh News & Observer (Film criticism); N&O Perspective section (Book criticism); Spectator Magazine (Theatre criticism). Book writer/dramaturg, "Serenading the Moon: The Songs of Johnny Mercer" (Thompson Theatre, '99) and "I Love a Piano: A Celebration of Irving Berlin" (Thompson, June '98). Forthcoming Book: Billy Wilder Land - Films of Disguise and Self-Deception (McFarland & Company). |
| Interests | Theatre, Chekhov to Sondheim. Movies, especially those of the 1930s and early-to-mid '70s and films of Billy Wilder, Welles, Scorsese, Hawks. Music: concert (the erroneously-named "Classical") to Louis Armstong, movie scores from Herrmann to the Newmans (Alfred, Randy and Thomas). Novels from Thornton Wilder and John Steinbeck to Toni Morrison and James Ellroy. |
| Favorite movies | Some Like it Hot, Pinocchio, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cabaret, The Godfather (I and II) |
| Favorite music | Stephen Sondheim, Harold Arlen, Sinatra, Johnny Mercer, Janacek, Gershwin, Moross, Stravinsky, Louis Armstong, Pete Seeger, Billy Holiday, Mel Torme, Rufus Wainwright, Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Mancini, Rozsa, Franz Waxman. |
| Favorite books | The Eighth Day (Thornton Wilder), Hucklberry Finn (Twain -- did I need to note that?), The Magnificent Ambersons (Booth Tarkington), East of Eden (Steinbeck), Beloved (Morrison), Graham Greene (The Comedians, The Quiet American, The Human Factor), The Dark Tower novels of Stephen King, The L.A. Quartet and American Tabloid series by James Ellroy, Sam Fuller's pulp thrillers, William Goldman's 1970s novels, Harlan Ellison's short stories. |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
The stuff dreams are made on.