Samantha Scott-Blackhall

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Samantha Scott-Blackhall is a Singaporean theatre director.

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Early life and education

Scott-Blackhall is the daughter of child psychologist Carol Balhetchet and the sister of designer Chelsea Scott-Blackhall. [1] She studied at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, and obtained her degree in drama and directing from the university in 2002. [2]

Career

In 2003, Scott-Blackhall directed the plays Popcorn , Agnes of God and The Deep Blue Sea . [3] [4] In the following year, she directed the plays Dead Certain , a psychological thriller, Harold Pinter's The Lover and The Dumb Waiter , and The Physicists . [3] In 2005, she received three nominations for Best Director at the 2005 Life! Theatre Awards for The Physicists, The Lover and the Dumb Waiter and Dead Certain. [2] She won Best Director for The Physicists. [5] In 2005, she directed Modern Dance for Beginners . [6]

In 2006, she directed the plays Doubt: A Parable , Death and the Maiden , Quills , The Car and 41 Hours . [7] Quills won Best Production of the Year at the 2006 Life! Theatre Awards. [2] In 2007, she directed an adaptation of the novel Lord of the Flies , [8] [9] as well as Everything but the Brain , Real Men, Fake Orgasms and Hitting (On) Women . [10] [11] [12] In 2008, she directed the all-Eurasian play Mama's Wedding , [2] as well as Apocalypse: Live! and Das Experiment: Black Box . [13] [14] In 2009, she directed the plays Manhood , [15] Singapore Love Letters , [16] The Vampire Monologues and Streetwalkers . [17] [18] In 2010, she directed the plays Ma Goes Home , Perfecting Prata and Behold Cravings . [19] [20]

In 2012, she directed an adaptation of Freud's Last Session . [8] She was nominated for Best Director at the 2013 Life! Theatre Awards for her work on the play. [21] In 2013, she directed the play 8 Women . [22] In 2014, she directed the plays A Wedding, A Funeral & Lucky, the Fish and Stand Behind the Yellow Line – Garisan Kuning. [23] In 2018, she directed the plays Red and Souvenir . [24] [25]

Scott-Blackhall has also taught at the LASALLE College of the Arts. [2]

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