DGI INSTRUCTOR

PANDORA SCOOTER

Their DGI Teaching History includes Script Analysis for Dramatists.

Pandora Scooter has been working in new play development with playwrights, assisting them to write their plays for 30 years.  She has worked in the Literary Departments of theatres such as Arena Stage, the Goodman Theatre, Writer's Theatre of NJ, Delaware Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse and New York Theatre Workshop.  Pandora has also spent the last 20 years building a script analysis technique that puts all the attention on the text on the page.   

In 1999, she and fellow DG member Rosemary McLaughlin founded the Hallie Flanigan Women's Play Series, which put on readings of plays by women throughout it's three seasons at Wings Theatre Company.  Last year, Pandora founded and runs the American Theatre Group (ATG) PlayLab, a development group dedicated to supporting playwrights of color and queer playwrights.  This year, Pandora founded a new play development project, Women's Playwrights Circle @ Speranza.  She also proudly serves as an Ambassador for the Dramatists Guild for NJ.  

As a playwright and screenwriter, her works have been produced by the Fresh Fruit Festival, from which she won "Best Musical" for her show Wretch, New York Theatre Workshop's Larson Lab, Bowery Poetry Club, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, among other venues.  Her play Two Peas in a Pod, has been adapted into a screenplay and is currently in production with a release date in the winter 2021/22.   

She has been teaching script analysis to playwrights, actors and directors for nearly 20 years.Among the theatre practitioners who influenced her script analysis technique are: David Ball's Backwards and Forwards, Martin Esslin's Anatomy of a Drama, a small amount from Aristotle's The Poetics, director Amy Saltz's Conceptualization theories, and the work of Caryl Churchill, Suzan Lori Parks, Paula Vogel and Tony Kushner.She has been a member of the Dramatist's Guild since 2017 and lives in NJ.