Writer In Residence
Fishtrap is pleased to announce 2008 Writer in Residence: Keith Scales
WRITER IN RESIDENCE, KEITH SCALES, TO GIVE FINAL READING AT WALLOWA LAKE LODGE - Sunday, May 4, 2008 - 4:00 PM
Each year, Fishtrap brings a writer to Wallowa County for a nine week stay. The writer works with high school students, gets to know Wallowa County, and has an opportunity to work on his or her own projects. This year Keith Scales (renowned director, actor, playwright, and Oregon Book Award Nominee) spent time in Wallowa County high schools, delivered lectures, worked with the Midvalley Theater Company, and also offered an adult playwriting workshop. Scales will give a final reading on Sunday, May 4th, at Wallowa Lake Lodge. The reading will be at 4pm.
Keith Scales was born and raised in London, England. He has been living and working in the Pacific Northwest since 1970 as an actor, director, teacher, organizer and writer. A familiar face to Northwest audiences, Scales has acted in more than 200 plays and received many awards. He has also directed over 50 plays in various theatres in Portland, Oregon. His repertoire includes classics, modern drama and original works. Scales has received several research fellowships. He has traveled to the W.B.Yeats Festival in Sligo, Ireland and to Kyoto to study traditional avant-garde Japanese theatre under Oregon Arts Commission grants. A Regional Arts and Culture Council Masters Fellowship took him to Cornwall, England and the South of France, where he visited sites associated with the Grail legend. He has also traveled extensively in Greece.
Tickets for the Keith Scales reading are $15, which includes dessert and coffee at Wallowa Lake Lodge. This event is a fundraiser for the Wallowa County Writer in Residence Program. Tickets are available at the Bookloft in Enterprise, Second Harvest Books in Joseph, and at Fishtrap. Call 426-3623, or email zanni@fishtrap.org for more information.
Keith Scales "Informance" schedule:
THE HIDDEN WATERFALL
Ecstasy In the West
March 11 - Joseph Methodist Church, 7pm.
THE FIRE AND THE ROSE; the story of the story of The GRAIL (Joseph Campbell: “the founding myth of western consciousness.”) Eclectic and allusive, with material from ancient Babylon to Monty Python – 2 hours).
March 18 - Fishtrap's Coffin House, Enterprise, 7 pm.
THE DOOR WE NEVER OPENED; poetry and theatre of T.S. Eliot.
March 27 - Fishtrap's Coffin House, Enterprise, 7 pm.
IN SEARCH OF DIONYSUS; ecstasy, madness and the theatre.
April 2 - The Blonde Strawberry, Wallowa, 7pm.
THINGS DISCOVERED IN THE DEEP: poetry and theatre of W.B. Yeats
April 15 - Joseph Methodist Church, 7pm.
OF STRANGE SHADOWS; the Mysteries in Shakespeare’s sonnets
Born and raised in London, England, Keith Scales has been living and working in the Pacific Northwest since 1970 as an actor, director, teacher, organizer and writer.
ACTING: A familiar face to Northwest audiences, Keith has acted in more than 200 plays and received many awards.
DIRECTING: Keith has directed over 50 plays in various theatres in Portland, Oregon. His repertoire includes classics, modern drama and original works.
FELLOWSHIPS: Keith has received several research fellowships. He has traveled to the W.B.Yeats Festival in Sligo, Ireland and to Kyoto to study traditional avant-garde Japanese theatre under Oregon Arts Commission grants. A Regional Arts and Culture Council Masters Fellowship took him to Cornwall, England and the South of France, where he visited sites associated with the Grail legend. He has also traveled extensively in Greece.
WRITING: Keith created all the lecture/performances described on this website. For Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon he has developed new English versions of a dozen plays from the ancient canon. His original trilogy Damned Fools is currently in development.
TEACHING: Keith has taught acting classes for Portland State University, Northwest Academy, Marylhurst College, New Rose Theatre, and the Storefront Theatre. He led teachers' seminars in Medieval, Renaissance and Oriental Drama at Lewis & Clark College under the auspices of the Oregon Council on the Humanities. His Chautauqua programs on poets and playwrights have taken him all over the Pacific Northwest.
ORGANIZING: Keith worked for three years as performing and literary arts coordinator for Artquake, Portland's citywide arts festival. He has extensive grant-writing experience. Past Artistic Director of Portland Actor's Ensemble Shakespeare-in-the-Parks program, he currently directs the Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon. A believer in theatre as a social catalyst, Keith frequently develops symposia to accompany his productions.