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Scott Kurz joined Brigit Saint Brigit (BSB) in its first season 15 years ago and has been a staff/company mainstay ever since.
An overview of his own favorite roles at BSB include Christy Mahon
in J.M. Synge´s The Playboy of the Western World, Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams´ A Streetcar
Named Desire, Iago in Othello, the title roles in Hamlet and Macbeth, Skinner in Friel´s The Freedom
of the City, Cripple Billy in Martin McDonagh´s The Cripple of Inishmaan and, most recently, John in
Conor McPherson´s Shining City. Kurz is also an accomplished director whose credits include Arthur
Miller´s A View from the Bridge, Tennessee Williams´ The Glass Menagerie, Rod Serling´s Requiem for
a Heavyweight, Edward Albee´s Who´s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Beth Henley´s Crimes of the Heart,
James Goldman´s The Lion in Winter, Henry IV, Part 1, His Girl Friday and Dracula (for which he
wrote original adaptations for the stage) and, most recently, John Patrick Shanley´s Doubt: A Parable.
From 1999 through 2007, Kurz served as scenic and lighting designer/technical director for BSB;
last year, he became executive director. In addition to the responsibilities this brings, he maintains a
vital presence onstage and in BSB´s educational programming, utilizing his award-winning teaching
experience to excite young people about live theatre.