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Samantha Scott-Blackhall is a Singaporean theatre director. Her 2006 production of Quills won Best Production of the Year at the Life! Theatre Awards.[1]
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Scott-Blackhall is the daughter of child psychologist Carol Balhetchet and the sister of designer Chelsea Scott-Blackhall.[2] She studied at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, and obtained her degree in drama and directing from the university in 2002.[1]
In 2003, Scott-Blackhall directed the plays Popcorn, Agnes of God and The Deep Blue Sea.[3][4] In the following year, she directed the plays Dead Certain, a psychological thriller, Harold Pinter's The Lover and The Dumb Waiter, and The Physicists.[3] In 2005, she received three nominations for Best Director at the 2005 Life! Theatre Awards for The Physicists, The Lover and the Dumb Waiter and Dead Certain.[1] She won Best Director for The Physicists.[5] In 2005, she directed Modern Dance for Beginners.[6]
In 2006, she directed the plays Doubt: A Parable, Death and the Maiden, Quills, The Car and 41 Hours.[7] Quills won Best Production of the Year at the 2006 Life! Theatre Awards.[1] In 2007, she directed an adaptation of the novel Lord of the Flies,[8][9] as well as Everything but the Brain, Real Men, Fake Orgasms and Hitting (On) Women.[10][11][12] In 2008, she directed the all-Eurasian play Mama's Wedding,[1] as well as Apocalypse: Live! and Das Experiment: Black Box.[13][14] In 2009, she directed the plays Manhood,[15] Singapore Love Letters,[16] The Vampire Monologues and Streetwalkers.[17][18] In 2010, she directed the plays Ma Goes Home, Perfecting Prata and Behold Cravings.[19][20]
In 2012, she directed an adaptation of Freud's Last Session.[8] She was nominated for Best Director at the 2013 Life! Theatre Awards for her work on the play.[21] In 2013, she directed the play 8 Women.[22] In 2014, she directed the plays A Wedding, A Funeral & Lucky, the Fish and Stand Behind the Yellow Line – Garisan Kuning.[23] In 2018, she directed the plays Red and Souvenir.[24][25]
Scott-Blackhall has also taught at the LASALLE College of the Arts.[1]
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