Rose Lee Scott
Director, Educator, Education Director, University Professor, Actor, Youth Theatre
1940?-1982
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Affiliations:
Karamu House, Colorado College, ASSITEJ, Jacque Lecoq
Cleveland, Ohio, Atlanta, Paris, Colorado, Washington DC, New York
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Connections:
Ann K Flagg, Moses Gilbert
Rose (Rosa) Lee Scott was born in Atlanta, and began her career in theatre as a high school student acting with the Karamu House Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio under the guidance of Ann K. Flagg. Eventually, Rose starting acting in, doing props/costumes and directing productions including props for “Bullfight”; actress in “Death of a Salesman”, “Fairy Tale Wood” (directed by Ann Flagg), “Simply Heavenly”, “Our Town” and “Master Builder” (with Ann Flagg); lighting and costumes for “Gallant Tailor”; and director of “The Knight of the Funny Bone” and “The Princess Who Wanted the Moon”. In 1962, Rose would become a dramatics instructor and the Assistant Director of the Children's Theatre Program at Karamu House.
In the summer of 1960, Scott attended the New York Encampment for Citizenship in Riverdale, New York as a facilitator in theatre programming. In September 1962, Scott completed the Basic Training Course for the United States Air Force. She received an Honorable Discharge in July 1966. Following her discharge, she resumed work at the Karamu House, before beginning her undergraduate studies at Colorado College. In 1970, she was asked to evaluate the performance of London's Young Vic Company. She also was awarded a grant from Thomas J. Watson Foundation to engage in creative drama study in England and France. In her senior year she studied mime, pantomime and commedia in Paris at the L’École Jacque Lecoq. When she returned to teach at Colorado College as a lecturer, she continued to integrate mime and pantomime into her movement classes. After graduating with her BA in Fine Art and Drama in 1973, Scott was invited as a United States delegate to the ASSITEJ (International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People, or, L'Association internationale du théâtre pour l'enfance et de la jeunesse) Congress in Venice, Italy. From 1974 to 1976 she was a drama teacher at Takoma Park Elementary School in Takoma Park, Maryland in the Montgomery County Public Schools. Scott also taught at the Fillmore Arts Center in Washington, DC and presented arts education workshops for children as part of the aesthetic education program, CEMREL, later known as AAE (Alliance for Arts Education), at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. In 1977 she was a guest professor in mime and drama at Colorado College. Her last teaching position before her death from cancer on December 14th, 1982 was at the Norwood School in Bethesda, Maryland from 1979 until 1980.
