Barbara Scott has been improvising for more than 25 years, and
has been a member of the BATS Company and coaching staff since its
first year. She's played Theatresports in many U.S.
cities, as well as in Calgary, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and as part
of a national touring company in New Zealand. Barbara is a founding
member of True Fiction Magazine improvisational theatre, with whom
she's performed internationally. She is also a working
actor in film, industrials, trade shows and voiceover (most
recently in The Sims). Barbara teaches at BATS, the American
Conservatory Theatre, Full Circle Productions, the San Francisco
Opera Center and the SF Conservatory of Music. She has led master
improv classes at Stanford University, Dell'Arte School of
Physical Theatre, the Funny Women Fest in Chicago, and at many
international improv festivals. She also teaches song improvisation
(most of the time with Joshua Brody) with BATS, the San Francisco
Opera Company, and in many U.S. and European cities. In 2002 she
and Joshua taught a series of music classes to improvisers in Tokyo
and Osaka.
