#LITTLE THEATRE TUSCARAWAS COUNTY PROFESSIONAL#

#LITTLE THEATRE TUSCARAWAS COUNTY PROFESSIONAL#

In the Ohio Professional Writers 2010 Communications Contest, Scott Lax won Second Place for 'Original Columns, General.' March, 2011 - In the Ohio Professional Writers 2011 Communications Contest, Scott Lax won First Place for Writing for the Web, Columns or Commentary 1998 - The Year That Trembled, a Novel, named of of 1998’s “Milestones in Fiction by Denver Post.ġ998 - Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Univ. 6, 2016 - Inducted into the Chagrin Falls High School Achievement Hall of FameĢ002 - City of Cleveland Certificate of Congratulations for body of work.ġ999 - Named to fourteen-person list of Hiram College’s “Most Illustrious Alumni'įebruScott Lax's short story, 'Sales Call,' won 2nd Place for MUSE Magazine's 2010 Literary Competition.ġ999 - The Year That Trembled, a Novel named Vermont Book of the Year, Runner-Up.ĭec. He lives in the Chagrin Valley with his wife and son. Scott's hobbies include music, theatre, reading, movies, sports, gardening, hiking, and watching Cleveland Guardians baseball and Cavaliers basketball. He is a frequent presenter and speaker at libraries, workshops, schools, and writers' conferences, and gave the 2001 Commencement Address at Hiram College.Ī member of the Authors Guild and the Dramatists Guild, Scott is also a professional drummer, and has performed with many musicians around the country, including Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bo Diddley. The Scott Lax Prize in Writing was established was endowed anonymously by a former student of Scott's and was awarded yearly between 20 as a full-ride scholarship to the week-long Wild Acres Writers Workshop in South Carolina. He's also worked in television, most recently as co-creator and co-writer of a television pilot with comedy legends Martin Mull and Fred Willard, filmed at the PBS ideastream studios in Cleveland, Ohio. As a freelance writer and content creator he's written for dozens of clients such as Comedy Central, ESPN, and Oracle. Lax has also worked as a journalist, business professional and executive, speechwriter for social justice leaders, and as a writing coach for the Cleveland Guardians Major League Baseball Team.

As of the summer of 2022, Scott has rewritten the play for national community and professional theatres.

Lax adapted his novel as a two-act full-length play directed by Carol Jaffee Pribble, which premiered at Cleveland's University School in 2003 to sold-out audiences and was again produced in 2013 at US. The Boston Herald wrote of Scott's film, 'Memorable…beautifully reflects the depth of experience of the late 60s and early 70s …a touching glimpse into the lives of young people enmeshed in the political and emotional climate of the times.' Scott is the recipient of two short fiction awards, as well as six journalism awards from the Cleveland Press Club's Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards and the Ohio Professional Writers Association for his essays, features, series, and commentary.įor his role as producer of the feature film version of his novel, The Year That Trembled, directed by Jay Craven, Scott was awarded the Midwest Filmmaker of the Year by the Cleveland International Film Festival the Producer's Award, Winner, People's Choice, Cincinnati International Film Festival the Producer's Award, Winner, Best Regional Feature, Cincinnati International Film Festival and Bessie's People's Choice Award, Burlington, Vermont City Arts, Favorite Film. His screenplay adaptation of the novel is currently being shopped.

The Denver Post called Scott's first novel, The Year That Trembled, 'powerful' and named it one of 1998's 'milestones in fiction.' Scott's second novel, Vengeance Follows, was called 'A minor masterpiece of suspense and human nature,' by the Midwest Book Review. O'Keefe Scholarship in Nonfiction, and of the Sewanee Writers Conference Walter E. He is a recipient of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bernard J. Scott graduated from Hiram College in English with a concentration in American Studies. Novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and producer Scott Lax works as a lecturer in the Liberal Arts Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he teaches Creative Writing.

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