A Kansas native, Scott Allegrucci has acted in films, on television and
for theaters around the country.
Film roles include Andy Weiss in Earthwork (also Executive Producer),
Deputy Russ Kane in Bunker Hill, one of the libidinous youngsters at
the heart of the feature film The Feud, the voice of the award-winning
short film Second Place, and the central character in the short film 76
Spade. TV roles include errant youths in the ABC after-school specials
All That Glitters and the Emmy-winning Taking a Stand, and an
appearance on Chicago Hope.
Stage work includes work at The Public Theater in New York, The Old
Globe Theatre in San Diego, Frontera Theater in Austin, The Antaeus
Company in Los Angeles, and The Smokebrush Theater in Colorado (where
he was also Associate Artistic Director). Many stage roles include
Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing,
Charlie Fox in Speed-the-Plow, Andrei in Three Sisters, Chris Keller in
All My Sons, Mr. Snow in Deviant Craft, Crazy Horse in the Noh/Native
American fusion Moon of the Scarlet Plums, Menelaus in Helen, Minard in
Mercadet, and multiple characters and puppets in a fantasy/circus
adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.
Scott toured with Jim Jackson and The Cartoon History of Theater
throughout Colorado as a part of The Kennedy Center Imagination
Celebration. He provided oration for the first annual Symphony in the
Flint Hills with the Paul Winter Consort and the Kansas City Symphony
and served as the M.C. for the third annual Symphony in the Flint
Hills. Theatrical directing credits include The Birds (an original
adaptation from Aristophanes), Molly Sweeney, and Yesterday Came Too
Soon: The Dorothy Dandridge Story. Scott is co-author of the short film
script Mime and Punishment (top prize - Screenwriting Magazine Expo 5
Script Competition; runner-up - First Annual Short Film Group
Competition; Finalist - Slamdance Short Film Screenplay Competition).
Scott was nominated for the Austin Critics' Table Award for his work in
Weldon Rising by Phyllis Nagy and received a B. Iden Payne Award from
the Austin Circle of Theaters for his work in Halcyon Days by Stephen
Dietz (both for Frontera). He is a past recipient of both a Princess
Grace Foundation Statue Award and Grant and a PFG Theater Scholarship.
He produced the 2003 and 2007 Kansas inaugural celebrations for
Governor Kathleen Sebelius. Other work has included post-production for
feature films and network television, Director of the Tourism
Development Division in the Kansas Department of Commerce, Projects
Director of the Climate and Energy Project of The Land Institute, and
Director of the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy. He graduated
from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and holds a BA
in Anthropology from The Colorado College.
