Van Scott, Glory

Dates:
Active 1974
Active 2000

Biographical notes:

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.

From the description of Glory Van Scott collection, 1974-2000. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517204

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Subjects:

  • African American actresses
  • African American dancers
  • African American entertainers
  • African Americans in the performing arts
  • African American women artists
  • African American women in the professions
  • Dance
  • Dancers

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  • United States (as recorded)
  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)