Van Scott, Glory

Glory Van Scott is an actress, dancer, singer, published playwright and author. A graduate of Goddard College, Vermont (B.A., M.A.), she was awarded a Ph. D. in education and theater arts from the Antioch Union Graduate School, Ohio. She is a former principal dancer with Katherine Dunham, Agnes DeMille and Talley Beatty companies and has performed in the United States and internationally, appearing in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows and on television.

Van Scott has served as director, producer, choreographer, and wrote and composed eight musicals including "Miss Truth" as well as children's theatrical productions and children's books. Her works have been produced in New York and Washington. Additionally, she was executive coordinator for Channel Thirteen's "Dance in America" series program on Katherine Dunham, and produced "An Evening of Spirituals" at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall for six years beginning in 1994. From 1974-1984 Van Scott was a professor of theater at Bucknell University's Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. In 1984 she founded the Dr. Glory's Children's Theatre at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, which is an international, inter-racial, intercultural, multi-ethnic non-profit children's theater.