Pandora Scooter
Pandora Scooter has been working in new play development with playwrights, assisting them to write their plays for 30 years. She has worked in the Literary Departments of theatres such as Arena Stage, the Goodman Theatre, Writer's Theatre of NJ, Delaware Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse and New York Theatre Workshop. Pandora has also spent the last 20 years building a script analysis technique that puts all the attention on the text on the page.
In 1999, she and fellow DG member Rosemary McLaughlin founded the Hallie Flanigan Women's Play Series, which put on readings of plays by women throughout it's three seasons at Wings Theatre Company. Last year, Pandora founded and runs the American Theatre Group (ATG) PlayLab, a development group dedicated to supporting playwrights of color and queer playwrights. This year, Pandora founded a new play development project, Women's Playwrights Circle @ Speranza. She also proudly serves as an Ambassador for the Dramatists Guild for NJ.
As a playwright and screenwriter, her works have been produced by the Fresh Fruit Festival, from which she won "Best Musical" for her show Wretch, New York Theatre Workshop's Larson Lab, Bowery Poetry Club, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, among other venues. Her play Two Peas in a Pod, has been adapted into a screenplay and is currently in production with a release date in the winter 2021/22. This year she was awarded a grant for her work by the Wallace Foundation, as well as a week-long writing retreat at The Barn sponsored by Theatre4thePeople.