Monday, February 12th at 7pm
TEN MINUTES ON A BENCH

Scott Alan Evans/Director is a director, writer, and producer.  For 25 years he served as the Executive Artistic Director of the award winning Off Broadway company TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, for whom he unearthed, produced, and/or directed over 200 plays including new works and rare or forgotten classics by great writers.  Off-Broadway credits include: Incident At Vichy by Arthur Miller; The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot; Children by A.R. Gurney; Long Island Sound by Noël Coward (U.S. premiere); Home by David Storey; The Sea by Edward Bond; Hard Love (New York premiere) by Israeli playwright Motti Lerner; and the first New York City revival of Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang.  In 2018 he directed a special world premiere of Salute to the Brave by Noël Coward starring Jennifer Ehle.  He conceived, co-wrote and directed The Triangle Factory Project (Dramatists Play Service) about the historic fire in New York City in 1911, and co-wrote  and directed Three Wise Guys (Broadway Play Publishing) based on short stories by Damon Runyon.  Both plays can be heard on Hear Play Audio Theatre, a podcast he created during the pandemic.  Other writing credits include the musicals Goose! Beyond the Nursery (3 Outer Critic Circle Award nominations including Best Off-Broadway Musical), and Charlotte & Shaw (Eugene O’Neil finalist), and more recently an adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer.  Last year he directed the world Premiere of Horseshoe Empire, by Margo Hammond, a play about Frank Hague, the notorious former mayor of Jersey City.  The production received the J. Owen Grundy History Award by the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy.  For ten years, Evans served as Artistic Director of the American Musicals Project (AMP), an educational program created by The New-York Historical Society in conjunction with the NYC Board of Education.  He’s a member of SDC and the Dramatists Guild.