Scott Turner Schofield

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Scott Turner Schofield is an American actor, writer, producer, and speaker. He is a transgender activist, and uses he/him and they/them pronouns. He was the first out transgender actor in Daytime television, [1] and the first out trans man to earn an Emmy nomination for acting. [2]

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Schofield has performed in film, TV, theatre, and streaming productions. In addition to performing, he has produced, written, directed, and consulted on several projects in film, TV, streaming content, and theatre.

A collection of Schofield's three solo performance scripts was published by Homofactus Press titled Two Truths and a Lie. Jack Halberstam wrote the foreword. The book was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the Drama and Transgender categories; it was placed on the American Library Association's 2009 Rainbow List.

Schofield's work as an activist [3] and public speaker has focused on education in regard to transgender issues and awareness. [4] He has assisted in the creation of training programs, [5] institutional support programs, and nondiscrimination policies in educational, government, and corporate settings. [6]

Filmography

Scott Turner Schofield has appeared in films ranging from art house shorts to major feature length releases; including the Antonia Brico biopic The Conductor, directed by Maria Peters, and Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps which is based on his award-winning live performance art piece of the same name.

Film credits include:

Television

In May 2015, Schofield became the first out transgender actor on daytime television, as the recurring character Nick on the CBS's The Bold And The Beautifu l. [8]

Acting credits include:

Digital

Schofield is involved in diverse offerings on series streaming platforms. [9]

Live Host

Industrials

Producer

Consultant

Theatre

Schofield has worked in theatre as a performer, writer, director, and artistic director.

He is best known for a trilogy of critically acclaimed autobiographical works, which focus on the life experience of being Queer, transitioning, and life beyond transition. Underground Transit; A spoken word performance taking on academic Queer Theory in the real life of one transition. Debutante Balls; [15] A performance piece on coming out into Southern Society as a lesbian, radical feminist, and finally, as a transgender man. The award-winning Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps which includes short stories, songs, and short films that center an epic trans life—before, during, and 20 years beyond transition. Excerpts of each of these were performed as part of the nationally touring variety show, the 'Tranny Roadshow.' [16]

Schofield was honored by the Princess Grace Foundation-USA, where he received the Gant Gaither Award, a theater fellowship in acting. [17] Schofield carried out his fellowship at 7 Stages in Atlanta, where he worked as the assistant to French director Eric Vigner on Bernard Marie Koltes' play In the Solitude of Cotton Fields; with German actress Anne Tismer on Gutes Tun/Doing Good Things; and with American actress/director Crystal Dickinson on Pearl Cleage's play A Song for Coretta. Schofield also became the first out transgender creator to receive a National Performance Network Creation Fund to produce Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps. The commission was supported by The Pat Graney Company in Seattle, DiverseWorks in Houston, and 7 Stages in Atlanta.

Schofield became the artistic director of Out North Contemporary Art House in Anchorage Alaska. He curated 3 seasons of performance, film, music, and visual arts. Schofield accepted an ACLU Award as a Hero for Constitutional Rights on behalf of Out North's founders, volunteers, and artists, who persisted through nine separate censorship attacks over 25 years. During his tenure as artistic director he conceived of the Art House Residency Program. The program was subsequently funded for $250,000 by ArtPlace America.

Schofield moved to France to work again with Éric Vigner on a play by Christophe Honoré titled La Faculté. He worked with the Academy of the Théâtre de Lorient and actress Jutta Johanna Weiss on the world premiere at the 2012 Festival d'Avignon. The play was also performed at the National Theatres of France, touring France in the 2012–13 season to Lorient, Toulouse, Clermont-Ferrand, Reims, and Orleans.

Festival Performances

Theatre Performances

Playwriting

Directing

Activism

Scott Turner Schofield has worked with over 100 major universities and corporations, educating on transgender cultural competency and workplace diversity and inclusion.

Schofield's work includes the popular TED Talk “Ending Gender” (TEDx Houston, 2013) [18] and the eCourse Everybody Changes, which teaches inclusivity for trans and gender non-conforming individuals using locker rooms.

Schofield collaborated with Joey Soloway, in partnership with 5050by2020 (a project of the Time's Up Movement) to lead their Trans Masculine Cohort. [19] The group brings trans masculine professionals in Hollywood for educational and collaborative opportunities.

In 2018, when Scarlett Johansson experienced backlash for attempting to play a transgender character, [20] Schofield acted in a viral video [21] featuring trans men auditioning for roles Johansson had played [22] starring D’Lo, Justin Chow, and Rocco Kayiotis. He participated in industry round tables and was highlighted in the Associated Press [23] and The Hollywood Reporter’s [24] coverage of trans entertainment professionals responding to the issue.

Thought Leadership

Schofield's work is centered on gender expansion in culture, as a speaker and writer engaging social change on transgender issues.

Bibliography

Schofield, Scott Turner. "1 Trans Actor on Representation in This Year’s Oscar Race", Backstage.Com. Backstage, November 7, 2019. https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/trans-actor-representation-years-oscar-race-1873/.

Schofield, Scott Turner. “Are We There Yet? On Being and Becoming a Transgender Performance Artist.” In Self Organizing Men, edited by Jay Sennet. Ypsilanti, Michigan: Homofactus Press, 2006.

Schofield, Scott Turner.“Becoming a Man...” - FourTwoNine Magazine, April issue, 2017

Schofield, Scott Turner. “Coming of Age—Still. Performance / Manifesto.”. Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory, New York University, no. 28. (2004).

TED Talk “Ending Gender” (TEDx Houston, 2013) Scott Turner Schofield “Ending Gender”, Nov 4, 2013, Houston, TX, USA, video, 16:25, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWubtUnSfA0

Advocate Video Team. "The Advocate: Ask a Trans Man With Scott Turner Schofield" September 12, 2017. Video, 5 min 26 sec. https://www.advocate.com/video/2017/9/12/ask-trans-man-scott-turner-schofield

Schofield, Scott Turner. “The Wrong Body.” In Gender Outlaw: The Next Generation, edited by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, Berkeley, California: Seal Press, 2010.

Schofield, Scott Turner. “Underground Transit”. Excerpt in [Becoming] Young Ideas on Gender, Identity and Sexuality, edited by- Diane Anderson-Minshall and Gina Devries, Chicago, Illinois:ExLIbris Group, Clarivate, 2004.

Schofield, Scott Turner. “Underground Transit”. In National Transgender Theater Festival Reader, New York: Renegade, 2003.

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