MARCUS SCOTT is a dramatist & journalist. Full-length works: TUMBLEWEED (recipient: 2025 Orlando Shakes Playfest; finalist: 2017 BAPF, 2017 Austin Playhouse Festival of New American Plays & 2025 Tacoma Distillery Festival; semifinalist: 2022 O’Neill NPC, 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award, 2017 Princess Grace Award at New Dramatists; long-listed: 2023 Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition - 2nd Rounder), SIBLING RIVALRIES (finalist: 2023 Normal Ave’s NAPseries, 2021 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference & 2021 Judith Royer Excellence In Playwriting Award; semi-finalist: 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award, 2021 Princess Grace Award at New Dramatists & 2025 O’Neill NPC; long-listed: 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award), THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD (finalist: 2023 Princess Grace Award at New Dramatists, 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Award, 2019 Bushwick Starr Reading Series; semifinalist: 2024 BAPF, 2024 Fault Line Theater’s Irons in the Fire & 2024 O’Neill NPC; long-listed: 2024 AFF Playwriting Competition - 2nd Rounder), VINYL VANGUARD (2024 Step1 R&D Series) and CHERRY BOMB (recipient: 2017 Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence, 2017 New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series; 2017 finalist for the Yale Institute for Music Theatre). Heartbeat Opera commissioned Scott to adapt Beethoven’s FIDELIO (Co-writer; Met Live Arts at the MET Museum, Mondavi Center at UC Davis, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, The Broad Stage, Rutgers Presbyterian Church, Baruch Performing Arts Center; NYTimes Critics’ Pick).

Scott is the recipient of the Robert Chelsey/ Victor Bumbalo Foundation Playwriting Award (2024). Scott is also a 2025 Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award finalist, 2024-2025 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellows finalist, 2023-25 Many Voices Fellowship finalist, a 2022 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab finalist, a 2021 NYSAF Founders’ Award finalist, a Top 30 finalist for the 2022 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and a 2021 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award semi-finalist. His articles appeared in Architectural Digest, Time Out New York, American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, Elle, Out, Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, among others. BFA: State University College at Buffalo, MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts.