Meet the Staff
Scott Edmiston
Director
Scott founded the Office of the Arts in 2003 following more than 25 years of experience in arts organizations and universities throughout the Northeast. Before joining Brandeis, he served as an artistic associate of the Huntington Theatre Company and on the faculty of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. An associate professor at BU, he taught dramatic literature, acting and was chair of the M.F.A. Directing Program. He currently teaches modern drama at Brandeis in the Department of Theater Arts. From 1998-2004 he served as president of StageSource, the Greater Boston Theatre Alliance, and he received the 2005 Boston Theater Hero Award for his leadership to the region’s theaters and artists.
An award-winning theater director, Scott has directed more than 30 productions in the New England area, including the Boston premiere of John Adams's opera Nixon in China. He has received two Elliot Norton Awards as Outstanding Director: for the Boston premieres of Tennessee Williams's "Five by Tenn" and Brian Friel's "Molly Sweeney." His productions of "Five by Tenn," "Betrayal" and "Miss Witherspoon" were honored as Outstanding Production. Scott received the Independent Reviewers of New England Award as Best Director for "Five by Tenn" and "The Women" was also named Best Production. His recent projects include "A Marvelous Party: The Nöel Coward Celebration" for the American Repertory Theatre and the Boston premieres of Theresa Rebeck’s "The Scene" and the Tony Award-winning "The History Boys" for SpeakEasy Stage Company.
Ingrid Schorr
Program Administrator
Ingrid joined the Office of the Arts in fall 2006. From 1999 to 2006 she coordinated Harvard University's annual celebration of the arts, Arts First, and she has worked with many Boston-area arts and education organizations. Ingrid has taught English literature, creative writing and drama at the Commonwealth School in Boston and Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols School in Cambridge, as well as the Putney School (Vermont) Summer Program and St. Paul's School (New Hampshire) Advanced Studies Program. She has studied and performed with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, and other local companies, and has produced and directed many "fringe" theater and dance productions. As a writer and editor, Ingrid has contributed to many national publications and in 2002 was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, which honors small-press writers. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Georgia's Henry Grady School and a master's degree in arts in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.