Meet our third finalist for the June Bingham New Playwright Commission, Scottie Harvey!
Scottie Harvey is a writer, performer, and animator from Los Angeles. She received her BFA (Film & Television) & MFA (Dramatic Writing) from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she found animation’s unlikely twin in theatre. Her work brings cartoon logic into alternative mediums, translating gravity-defying gags for the theatre stage or by writing emotionally grounded character studies into otherwise absurd contexts. Most recently, Scottie’s dramatic work has been featured at Dynasty Handbag’s “Weirdo Night” and her fiction writing will be included in Michelle Tea’s Clowns Anthology (DOPAMINE, 2026). Her play “A Live-Action Adaptation of an Episode of Tom & Jerry” ran at Pageant (Brooklyn, 2023) and had a reading at Theatre Rhinoceros (San Francisco, 2024). Her musical “Something’s in the Water at Abortion Beach!” premiered at Ars Nova’s ANTFEST (2022). She is the recipient of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival’s Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting (2020). Her animated work has been featured by artists such as Julien Baker and TORRES, and appeared in festivals such as Rhode Island Film Festival, Palm Springs Animation Festival, Berlin Filmhaus, and FLAnimation.
Since October 2023, Scottie has run the residency/performance art space “Van Noord Van Noord” which has hosted resident artists such as Erin Markey, Avery Gerhardt, Carl Holder, and Sacha Vega. She is co-host of the monthly sold-out “Animation Clubhouse” with Sam Lane. Scottie is currently writing her first novel about the last Cold Stone Creamery.
Stay tuned for more of our finalists!
Who will be this year’s health inspector prom queen? Place your bets! 📣 Are you team Margaret or Alice?
Find out when Inspector Margaret by Scottie Harvey @fearofegg plays at our next screening Friday February 6th at @elcidsunset
Doors at 7 & Screening at 8!
Meet ACCELERATOR artist Scottie Harvey! @fearofegg - LINK IN BIO
ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.
Cohort member Scottie Harvey (she/her) is a writer, performer, and animator from Los Angeles. Dramatic work has been featured at Dynasty Handbag’s Weirdo Night, Pageant, and Theatre Rhinoceros. Animated work has been featured by musician Julien Baker and screened at many festivals. Scottie co-hosts the monthly “Animation Clubhouse” with Sam Lane.
“I’m the person who texts someone at 1 a.m. with an idea I just had," says Scottie, "Writing a novel put me in a more intimate space with language. No bodies, no logistics, just words. It’s lonely, but I like that too. With theatre, I’m always thinking about the audience. With the novel, I’m just asking, how can I make myself laugh?”
Link in bio for the full interview.
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LA! Come to the Glove Money pre-launch (with books!) at David Horvitz’s Language Garden & hear readings by me, Imogen Xtian Smith, and Scottie Harvey 🌱 🌱 thank you Cori, Sophia, and Joseph for organizing! Saturday Sept 6th at 6pm—watch the sun go gold with us.
STRADDLING THE PRACTICAL IS BACK for one weekend only. Crazy excited to have an excuse to hangout with other People and work through some sticky stuff together. Don’t miss the first iteration of this retreat, space is super duper limited (and mega discounted for the reason of: I want this to happen). I’ll be posting pics of the digs later in August but if you’ve been to any @vannoordx2 stuff lately you’ll have an idea ;—) if you noticed how bad I misspelled embodied you are the perfect applicant.
Dm me to get the ball rolling!
Animation Clubhouse no. 5…was so fun. Thank you to all the artists who participated, and to all who came to support. What a way to start things off. More to come 🌸
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