Speaker Announcement: Scott Walters

Scott Walters is the founder and Director of the Center for Rural Arts Development and Leadership Education (CRADLE), an organization that supports the creation of sustainable arts organizations in small and rural communities and the education arts leaders for those organizations. He is also an Associate Professor of Drama at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and the long-time writer of the Theatre Ideas blog.

His publications include recent articles in American Theatre Magazine as well as a textbook, written with Cal Pritner, called Introduction to Play Analysis published by McGraw-Hill. He was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts "Access to Excellence" grant in 2009, and recently was the subject of a Studio 360 segment called "Too Much Theater?"

Walters has a doctorate from City University of New York Graduate Center, a Masters from Illinois State University, and did his undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.