Michael Chekhov Actors Studio Boston’s founding director Scott Fielding is the master teacher for the Chekhov Training, Meisner Foundation Training, and The Advanced (Meisner) Training programs. Twenty-five years’ experience with Chekhov’s visionary perspective and method informs his artistic and pedagogic work across multiple disciplines. Scott has collaborated or studied with most of the world’s leading Chekhov exponents including Beatrice Straight, Mala Powers, and other prominent actors personally trained by Michael Chekhov. Most important to his development were ten years of uninterrupted work with Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan, his primary mentors and Actors’ Ensemble colleagues.
Scott was privileged to train in Meisner technique with Suzanne Esper at New York’s William Esper Studio. After graduating, he was invited into a third year of advanced training with Bill Esper. Mr. Esper, who studied and worked closely with Sandy Meisner for many years, is widely regarded as the foremost authority on Meisner technique.
In addition to his work at MCASB, Scott also teaches at New England Conservatory (Graduate Opera Studies Program) and Emerson College. He is a member of the international faculty of the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA). Also, he regularly travels abroad to give master classes and workshops. Before relocating to Boston in 2010, Scott lived for several years in Southeastern Europe, directing and teaching extensively throughout the Balkans. He taught master classes and workshops across the former Yugoslavia including Sarajevo (Bosnia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Zagreb (Croatia), Belgrade (Serbia), and Mostar (Herzegovina), as well as in England, Switzerland, Germany, and Brazil. In Croatia, he held a full-term appointment at the Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb, and a one-year guest professorship at the Academy of Arts, Osijek.
An internationally-awarded stage director, Scott’s production (together with Serbian pianist Nada Kolundzija), John Cage: A House Full of Music, was cited for Best Performance of 2010 in Belgrade, Serbia; his 2009 production of (His) Three Sisters (Mostar Youth Theatre) won multiple awards including Best Play in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Other stage productions include Koltes’, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (Belgrade) and Night Just Before the Forests (KUD, Ljubljana); Irene Fornes’, Mud (Zagreb Theatre for Youth, Croatia); St. Vincent Millay’s, Aria Da Capo (Slovenia); Sara Kane’s, 4.48 Psychosis (Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb); and in collaboration with Slovenian director Tomi Janežić, King Lear (Atelier 212, Belgrade) and The Blind (Macedonian National Theatre, Skopje).
His U.S. productions include works by Ibsen, Garcia Lorca, Gertrude Stein, Mrozek, Robert Frost, and Günter Grass. For The Actors’ Ensemble, Scott directed works by Tina Howe, Henry Miller, W.B. Yeats, Ray Bradbury, and at the invitation of Buddhist monk and writer Thich Nhat Hahn, the U.S. premiere of Nhat Hahn’s, The Path of Return Continues the Journey.
Scott is the former founding Artistic Director of Alchymia Theatre in Chicago and, in New York, a member of The Actors’ Ensemble. As an actor, his stage credits include Off-Broadway, Chicago and Los Angeles. His dissertation, “Regarding the Significance of Divided Consciousness,” is published in Michael Chekhov: Critical Issues, Reflections, Dreams.
