Van Scott, Glory

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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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creatorOf Van Scott, Glory. Glory Van Scott collection, 1974-2000. New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn Urban Arts Corps (New York, N.Y.) photograph collection [graphic], 194-]-[199- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section
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creatorOf The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Glory Van Scott The HistoryMakers
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associatedWith Urban Arts Corps (New York, N.Y.) corporateBody
Place Name Admin Code Country
New York (State)--New York
Chicago (Ill.)
New York (N.Y.)
United States
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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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Dancer
Stage Actress
Theater Professor
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Active 1974

Active 2000

Birth 19470601

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