Krista Scott

Krista Scott is a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework instructor and a professor of voice and acting. She recently portrayed Lillie Langtry in her original one-woman play, Wilde Women for fifteen performances at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where the accolades included 4- and 5-star reviews, features in The Scotsman and The National newspapers, and one of seven “Top Picks” in Theatre in the Aug 1 weekly publication of The List.

She served as the voice/text director for three season at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, two seasons at Trinity Shakespeare Festival, and has also coached voices/dialects for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre Three, Uptown Players, Casa Mañana, Circle Theatre, Shakespeare Dallas (where she has also conducted weekend intensive workshops), Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Kitchen Theatre, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, and various universities in NY and PA. She is the co-founder of the upcoming dialect/accent training website ActingAccents.com, an associate editor for the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) website, and a former a board member and treasurer of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association.

Directing credits include the local professional productions of Rasheeda Speaking, Funnyman, I and You, Venus in Fur and Exit, Pursued by a Bear at Circle Theatre, I’ll Eat You Last and Mr. & Mrs. Fitch at Amphibian Productions, the Shakespeare Dallas production of The King’s Face as well as the staged readings of Macbeth and Coriolanus for the Shakespeare Dallas “Complete Works Series,” and the Theatre TCU co-productions of The Heir Apparent at Stage West and Electra at Hip Pocket Theatre. Other professional directing assignments include The Unfortunates at Kitchen Theatre (NY) as well as Two Rooms, The Heidi Chronicles, Steel Magnolias, and A Christmas Carol (MN). University productions directed include the Theatre TCU productions of Bright Star, Othello, My Love is As a Fever, Buried Child, Fiddler on the Roof, The Importance of Being Earnest, Three Sisters, Measure for Measure, How I Learned to Drive, The Beaux’ Stratagem, The Crucible, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane, as well as The Bacchae, Kiss Me, Kate, The Glass Menagerie, The Waiting Room, The Laramie Project, Dancing at Lughnasa and Good Night, Desdemona (Good Morning, Juliet) at other universities.  

 Among her favorite professional acting roles are Governor Ann Richards in ANN  at Water Tower Theatre, Janine in The Niceties and Ima in The Immigrant at Theatre Three, Bertha in Boeing, Boeing!, Cindy in Luna Gale and The Mystery Novelist in Kodachrome at Circle Theatre, Vivian Bearing in Wit (2014 Column Award winner) and Dottie in Noises Off at Theatre Arlington, Kim in First Day of School at Amphibian Stage, the titular role in Hedda Gabler (performed in Cairo, Egypt), Barb in Swimming in the Shallows at Kitchen Theatre and Rachel in Reckless at The New Tradition Theatre in St. Cloud, MN, which she co-founded with her husband, Brian Martinson. There, her musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol was produced annually for ten years and was the holiday favorite for nine years at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Chicago. Other playwriting credits include The Consecourse and a touring adaptation of Jack & the Beanstalk. Prior to coming to TCU, Krista was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, Ithaca College, the University of Mississippi, and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She is a member of VASTA, the Dramatists Guild and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Playwriting:

WILDE WOMEN (Solo performance piece, copyright 2016).

A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens (Musical adaptation for a cast of 5, copyright 2020).

Directing:

Circle Theatre, Fort Worth: RASHEEDA SPEAKING, FUNNYMAN, I AND YOU, VENUS IN FUR, EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR.

Amphibian Stage, Fort Worth: I’LL EAT YOU LAST, MR. & MRS. FITCH.

Stage West, Fort Worth: THE HEIR APPARENT.

Shakespeare Dallas: THE KING’S FACE; MACBETH and CORIOLANUS (staged readings).

Voice/Dialect Coaching:

Theatre Three: THE IMMIGRANT, ONCE, CINCHED.

Shakespeare Dallas: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.): MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

Illinois Shakespeare Festival: Voice & Text Director 2008, 2009, 2013 Seasons

Trinity Shakespeare Festival: Voice & Text Coach 2010 Season

Professional Acting:

Dallas Theater Center: PIPELINE (postponed due to COVID19).

(Local )  Theatre Three: THE IMMIGRANT

Amphibian Stage: KING LIZ, FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, ALL THIS INTIMACY

Circle Theatre: LUNA GALE, BOEING, BOEING!

Theatre Arlington: WIT (2014 Column Award, Best Actress), NOISES OFF

Publications: Voice and Speech Review: Book reviews in numerous volumes, 2001-2019.

Column Awards: Best Actress: WIT, 2013 FW Star Telegram Best Plays: 2016: #2 FUNNYMAN; 2013 WIT

Certified Instructor: Fitzmaurice Voicework, 2000-present.

Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers: associate member.

Voice and Speech Trainers Association: member (1997 – present).

Actors’ Equity Association Membership Candidate.

VASTA board member 2009-2015; treasurer 2006-2009.

Presentation workshops conducted each semester for Brite Divinity School Homiletics and Sermon classes.

Staged Reading for Amphibian Stage Productions.

Teacher for Summer Stage teen acting classes at Dallas Theater Center, 2015.

Shakespeare Dallas Weekend Intensive Workshop, November 2019.

Workshop Presenter and Planning Committee for the 2020 Shakespeare Theatre Association International Conference.