Samantha Scott-Blackhall
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Samantha Scott-Blackhall is a Singaporean theatre director. Her 2006 production of Quills won Best Production of the Year at the Life! Theatre Awards.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Scott-Blackhall is the daughter of child psychologist Carol Balhetchet and the sister of designer Chelsea Scott-Blackhall.[2] She studied at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, and obtained her degree in drama and directing from the university in 2002.[1]
Career
[edit]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.[1] 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.[1] 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,[1] 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.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Pereira, Alexius A.; Braga-Blake, Myrna; Ebert-Oehlers, Ann (2016). Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes And Dreams. World Scientific. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-9813109612.
- ^ Chiew, Melainne (30 June 2020). "Singapore-born designer Chelsea Scott-Blackhall and her fashion brand Dzojchen go global". Prestige. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ a b Oon, Clarissa (21 October 2004). "Play it again with a bang, Sam". The Straits Times.
- ^ Oon, Clarissa (20 October 2003). "Deep Blue in choppy waters". The Straits Times.
- ^ "Great expectations". The Straits Times. 18 March 2005.
- ^ Chew, David (15 October 2005). "Theatre's hot young things". Today. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ Hong, Xinyi (1 August 2006). "Double-bill scores with tales of kinship". The Straits Times.
- ^ a b Barker, Victoria (12 April 2012). "S'pore director not shy to tackle tough topics". My Paper.
- ^ Chia, Adeline (1 November 2007). "SAM STEPS FORWARD". The Straits Times.
- ^ Chow, Clara (11 January 2007). "Acclaimed play set for a second run". The Straits Times.
- ^ Hong, Xinyi (4 September 2007). "When boys become men". The Straits Times.
- ^ Hong, Xinyi (16 August 2007). "Hitting on a raw nerve". The Straits Times.
- ^ Chia, Adeline (18 August 2008). "Doomsday Singapore". The Straits Times.
- ^ Nair, Joseph (4 November 2008). "An unrealistic and futile experiment". The Business Times.
- ^ De Guzman, Amanda (18 September 2009). "Pretty tight package of masculinity". The Business Times.
- ^ Tan, Tara (9 February 2009). "Very different love letters". The Straits Times.
- ^ Chia, Adeline (27 October 2009). "Horrors, no shocks". The Straits Times.
- ^ Chia, Adeline (3 March 2009). "Mapping the human heart". The Straits Times.
- ^ Chia, Adeline (14 October 2010). "Dead woman's dilemma". The Straits Times.
- ^ Ng, Yisheng (22 March 2010). "Yummy main course". The Straits Times.
- ^ Oon, Clarissa (25 June 2013). "In the director's chair". The Straits Times.
- ^ Nanda, Akshita (1 April 2013). "Theatre review: House of hissing femmes in 8 Women". The Straits Times. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ Yusof, Helmi (28 February 2014). "Veteran actors bring new scripts to life". The Business Times.
- ^ Nanda, Akshita (21 September 2018). "Souvenir by Sing'theatre: Play about off-key singer hits right notes". The Straits Times. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ Tan, Corrie (11 July 2014). "Theatre review: Blank Space Theatre's Red is an art lecture disguised as a biopic". The Straits Times. Retrieved 10 October 2023.