Scott Munson

Scott Munson was born and raised in Hollywood, California, into a family of actors and torch-song singers.  He received his education at UCLA. the W.B. Yeats School in Sligo, Ireland, and Harvard University. His work has been performed in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Dallas-Fort Worth,  and Chicago among other locales. He has received a Marin Arts Council Playwriting Grant and has won the Southwest Theatre Association New Play Contest, the San Francisco Bay Guardian Playwriting Competition, the Spokane Civic Theatre’s Judges’ Prize, the best play award at the New York Theatre Artists’ New Play Festival, and the International Playwriting Competition of the Center Theater Ensemble of Chicago.  He has also been a two-time finalist for the National Play Award of the National Repertory Theater Foundation.  He earlier explored the life of Bertolt Brecht in his award-winning play, “Dearest Frank Lights A Cigar”. Currently, Mr. Munson currently divides his time between his native California and the southwest of France.