Actor, director, playwright, and novelist Keith Scales was continuously active in the Pacific Northwest theater community from 1970-2009, working as a free-lance professional actor, director, teacher, designer, organizer, and grant-writer. A familiar face to Portland and Seattle theatergoers, Keith acted in more than 200 plays and directed nearly 100.
In 2009 he relocated from Oregon to the Ozarks to concentrate on the creation of original works for page, stage, and screen. He still teaches, consults, and directs on occasion, but is now committed to a daily writing regime.
Scales will be on campus January 27-31 teaching a special Ofstad course, “Stories Well-Told,” on the narrative elements in fiction, non-fiction, and drama. The focus of the class will be on developing students’ individual voices, as well as employing theater improvisation exercises and techniques to offer an exhilarating opportunity to learn storytelling from the inside out. The class will be appealing to creative writing students, English students, and theater and musical theater students, as well.