Samantha Scott-Blackhall

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

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

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

1. Pereira, Alexius A.; Braga-Blake, Myrna; Ebert-Oehlers, Ann (2016). Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes And Dreams. World Scientific. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-9813109612.
2. Chiew, Melainne (30 June 2020). "Singapore-born designer Chelsea Scott-Blackhall and her fashion brand Dzojchen go global". Prestige. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
3. Oon, Clarissa (21 October 2004). "Play it again with a bang, Sam". The Straits Times.
4. Oon, Clarissa (20 October 2003). "Deep Blue in choppy waters". The Straits Times.
5. "Great expectations". The Straits Times. 18 March 2005.
6. Chew, David (15 October 2005). "Theatre's hot young things". Today. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
7. Hong, Xinyi (1 August 2006). "Double-bill scores with tales of kinship". The Straits Times.
8. Barker, Victoria (12 April 2012). "S'pore director not shy to tackle tough topics". My Paper.
9. Chia, Adeline (1 November 2007). "SAM STEPS FORWARD". The Straits Times.
10. Chow, Clara (11 January 2007). "Acclaimed play set for a second run". The Straits Times.
11. Hong, Xinyi (4 September 2007). "When boys become men". The Straits Times.
12. Hong, Xinyi (16 August 2007). "Hitting on a raw nerve". The Straits Times.
13. Chia, Adeline (18 August 2008). "Doomsday Singapore". The Straits Times.
14. Nair, Joseph (4 November 2008). "An unrealistic and futile experiment". The Business Times.
15. De Guzman, Amanda (18 September 2009). "Pretty tight package of masculinity". The Business Times.
16. Tan, Tara (9 February 2009). "Very different love letters". The Straits Times.
17. Chia, Adeline (27 October 2009). "Horrors, no shocks". The Straits Times.
18. Chia, Adeline (3 March 2009). "Mapping the human heart". The Straits Times.
19. Chia, Adeline (14 October 2010). "Dead woman's dilemma". The Straits Times.
20. Ng, Yisheng (22 March 2010). "Yummy main course". The Straits Times.
21. Oon, Clarissa (25 June 2013). "In the director's chair". The Straits Times.
22. Nanda, Akshita (1 April 2013). "Theatre review: House of hissing femmes in 8 Women". The Straits Times. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
23. Yusof, Helmi (28 February 2014). "Veteran actors bring new scripts to life". The Business Times.
24. Nanda, Akshita (21 September 2018). "Souvenir by Sing'theatre: Play about off-key singer hits right notes". The Straits Times. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
25. 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.