Scott Turner Schofield is an award-winning writer, performer and educator creating mind-opening theater with his three original solo performances “Underground Transit”, “Debutante Balls” and “Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps” about gender and sexuality to colleges, festivals and theaters worldwide. These autobiographical monologues challenge fundamental gender assumptions with stories of searching, embarrassment, pride, and the joy of finding yourself on your own terms.

His work has been lauded by press, academics and artists alike for meeting queer and mainstream audiences with humor and compassion.

In addition to performing, Scott has extensively lectured and facilitated workshops to a wide variety of disciplines and audiences about transgender identity, safety and allyship, as well as on his artistic career and performance aesthetics. Some of his current workshops include:

• GENDER SELF ESTEEM - Loving Non-Conformity for All Bodies and Identities For transgender individuals of any identity or experience.
• COMPLEX GENDERS IN RELATIONSHIPS For all people who identify as gender non-conforming/ transgender and/or are engaged in relationship with someone who identifies as gender non-conforming/ transgender.
• TRANS COMMUNITY FORUM For people who are, care about, or want to learn more about TG folks.
• TRANSGENDER INCLUSION For allies in all professions—particularly public safety, health, and administration—seeking to create safe spaces for transpeople in their community(ies).
• STRANGE BEDFELLOWS - Fraternities, Sororities, and LGBTQ Students on Campus In an interactive discussion, participants identify ways to be inclusive, create guidelines for good allyship, and make commitments for meaningful interaction among clubs.
• TRANS 101 - Queer Theory in Practice For community groups & classes.
• PAGE TO STAGE - Making Performance for Social Change For artists and activists of any definition or skill level.

Departmental talks vary from women's/gender studies to social work, psychology, political science, and sociology. Scott tackles gender identity from the ground up, molding his personal experiences and observations of gender, sexuality, race and class in response to any course's curriculum. Usually this means responding to readings in women's/gender studies 101 to the graduate level, however other topics have included masculinities and queer theory, personal identity as shaped by social policy, sex and intimacy in transgender identities, gender violence and peacemaking, and negotiating difference in the DSM-IV. An award-winning, widely-produced professional artist since graduating college in 2002 (completely self-supported since 2004), as well as an artist who privileges theater as a means of grassroots community building, Scott is a valuable career speaker to theater and performance students as well.

Scott has been instrumental in shaping Residence Life and university administration policies regarding transgender support and safety at Emory University, Appalachian State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also offers a special allyship program that builds bridges of commonality between the oddest of bedfellows: queer student groups, student athletes, and university Greek (fraternity and sorority) systems.

The youngest-ever recipient of a Tanne Foundation Award for Commitment to Artistic Excellence (2004), Scott enjoys incredible nationwide grassroots support, and was honored with a 2007 Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship in Acting. He served in this fully funded position as an Artistic Associate at 7 Stages. Also in 2007, Scott became the first openly transgender artist commissioned by the National Performance Network.

Scott’s first book, Two Truths and a Lie, was published in 2008 by HomoFactus Press. A memoir passing as three solo plays, the book brings readers inside the often hilarious—but all too real—moments of Schofield’s young life on the Homecoming Court and Debutante Ball circuit (in a dress). Armed with only a decoder ring and a gifted tongue, Scott comes out with truly unbelievable stories of a body in search of an identity that are by turns slapstick and slap-to-the-face. A signature facet of Scott's work, this drama warmly invites readers to explore gender, sex, sexuality, and self in their own first person.