About

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Scott R. Adkins is a playwright and educator. Adkins’ wrote and produced and rolled out via robo-call an audio drama call Party Line for the Real Time Interventions Post Theatrical event in 2021.  In 2020, he co-founded Let’s Make a Theatre Company during the pandemic, alongside a group of students from Purchase College. Adkins’ play, Lakeview Terrace, explores themes of metamorphosis and grief. His play The Kioskers was featured at St. Ann’s Warehouse Labapalooza in 2016, while TupuTupuTupu was developed at MacDowell in 2016 and further refined at La MaMa in 2017.
A former playwright in the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab and a MacDowell Fellow, Adkins has also taught playwriting at SUNY Purchase and screenwriting as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University. He earned an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College and is a co-founder of the Brooklyn Writers Space and Sock Monkey Press.
Currently, Adkins is a Career Advisor at Northwestern University, offering guidance to students in the MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen and the MFA in Documentary Media programs.