wrote and directed the feature Generic Thriller starring Academy Award-winner Shirley Jones, and the satire Bye-Bye Bin Laden named “Best Feature” at the South Beach Animation Festival. His stage musical Stealing Freedom, the story of Civil War hero Robert Smalls, was presented at the A.R.T./NY Theatre by Amas Musical Theatre in 2017 and 2018. His musical Die, Die, Diana played the New York International Fringe Festival, a production noted in “The New York Times.” The stage version of Bye-Bye Bin Laden was named “one the top five premieres of 2004” by “The San Francisco Bay Guardian.” His play 1920 about the marriage of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, was selected for the 2024 TRU Voices New Play Reading Series. His verbatim play The Mothers about Mormon mothers of LGBTQ kids, was selected for the 2023 An Other Theatre Company New Play Festival. Scott’s book “Screenwriting for Neurotics” from University of Iowa Press is in print here and in China. His numerous indie feature film producing credits, include All About Dad, named one of 2009’s “ten best narrative features made by Asian American directors." Scott holds an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, and a BS in radio/TV/film from Northwestern. He’s a Professor of screenwriting, playwriting and film studies at San Jose State University, and teaches remotely from his Manhattan apartment. Scott is currently writing and developing Harry! The Royal Musical Comedy, which recently had a table reading with Miss Sandy Duncan as the Queen Mum.