Biography

Scott began his career in professional theatre as a young child, portraying a "Munchkin" in his father, Herb Rogers' Equity production of The Wizard Of Oz. Being bitten by the theatre bug at such a young age led to the inevitable pursuit of a career in the theatre. After studying Directing in college and working as an actor, Scott began traveling the country working as a Production Stage Manager. After stage-managing seventy or so Equity shows, he began directing original plays in small theaters around Hollywood, including two for Jerome Lawrence (Author of "Mame" and "Inherit the Wind"). He quickly developed a reputation for drawing first class performances from his actors. Scott has never been out of work since. He has gone on to direct many Equity shows around the country including; the Los Angeles Premiere of A Prelude To A Kiss; Les Liaisons Dangereuses starring Donna Mills; Nanette Fabray in the West Coast Premiere of The Cemetery Club, and Jayne Meadows in the highly acclaimed production of Neil Simons' Lost In Yonkers, about which The Los Angeles Times' wrote "Scott Rogers staging at La Mirada Theatre is a more moving experience than the National Touring Company...". More details of concerts, stage and road shows can be found in 'other work'.

Scott served as acting coach for 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox) under a multi-year, exclusive contract, coaching actors for television projects. He served as acting coach on the feature "Princess Ka'iulani" starring Barry Pepper, Will Patton, and Q'orianka Kilcher. Scott has coached principal actors, for more than 4000 hours on the sets of major motion pictures and national television shows. He has produced, cast, and/or directed more than 100 professional productions and he's written, directed, and produced dozens of TV commercials.

He was the full-time, on-set, acting coach for the Fox-TV series North Shore and was previously the full-time acting coach for the hit TV show Baywatch, where he first coached actor Jason Momoa. Scott went on to coach Momoa on 44 episodes of two national TV-series, a TV movie, and some auditions (when he still auditioned for roles!)

Working regularly as an Equity theatre director, in the early 1990s, Scott began to get hired by actors, studios, and production companies to Direct and/or Coach, hundreds of actors, including: Donna Mills, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Charles Grodin, Richard Kline, Vincent Gardenia, Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, John Astin, Ted Lange, Denver Pyle, Tony Bennett & many others.

In 1994, after living and working in Los Angeles for more than 25 years, Scott moved to Hawai'i with his wife, Jeanne, to raise their (soon to be) two children in a safe and sane environment. They opened their school in Honolulu to train actors for film and television. During this time, Scott coached actors on TV shows and movies, like Pat Morita, Brooke Burns, Dominic Purcell, and series-regulars on shows like LOST, North Shore, and Baywatch, as well as actors appearing in: Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull, Hawaii Five-0, ER, 50 First Dates, Pearl Harbor, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Rundown, Tears of the Sun, Blue Crush, Lilo & Stich, and many more.

In 2013 Scott opened a second studio, this one in Portland, Oregon. Within a year or so most of his Portland students were regularly booking roles on TV shows like Grimm, Leverage, Portlandia, and The Librarians.

Now (thanks to Zoom) Scott teaches weekly classes in Honolulu and Portland and coaches actors in L.A., New York, London, and literally all around the world, daily.

Scott is a 40+ year member of Actors Equity Association, AFTRA and the Screen Actors Guild (now SAG-AFTRA), where he served for 12 years on the SAG and then SAG-AFTRA National Board of Directors and 16 years on the SAG and SAG-AFTRA Hawai'i Local Board of Directors. Currently he still serves on several SAG-AFTRA National Committees, as Vice-Chair of the SAG-AFTRA National Conservatory Committee and now as Vice President of the SAG-AFTRA Portland Local.

Scott's taught acting to hundreds of actors, in classes across the country, from Los Angeles to Florida, from Seattle to San Francisco, from Washington D.C. to Guam (yes, Guam!). He has auditioned more than 15,000 actors for various productions and his clients appear on television, Film, & on Broadway, daily.
- IMDb mini biography by: George Spelvin