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INTERVIEWS


A Conversation with Scottie Thompson

Fulle Circle Productions | October 31, 2009

If you have yet to hear the name "Scottie Thompson", don’t fret, because you will very soon. She is one of the loveliest young talents emerging in show business today- she’s already worked with director J.J. Abrams on the new Star Trek film, and has appeared in television series such as Ugly Betty, Shark, Law & Order, to a recurring role on NCIS, and her newest series Trauma.

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BackStage.com interview

Backstage.com | December 3, 2009

A serious ballerina throughout her youth in Virginia, Scottie Thompson went on to attend Harvard University where she graduated with a degree in Performance Studies and Literature. She remains a voracious reader of novels, and travels frequently to faraway countries you’ve never heard of in search of adventure.

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HARVARD RELATED ARTICLES


Survivor, Postering Style

 Harvard Crimson | October 14, 2004

Susan “Scottie” S. Thompson, ’05, former publicity manager of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, agrees. “Do I miss freezing my hands off in the middle of winter? No,” she says, adding, “It’s kind of absurd when it’s so cold the tape doesn’t stick.”

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Going Pro at the Market Theater

Harvard Crimson | March 8, 2002

However, the actors point out the scarcity of such opportunities at Harvard. Susan Thompson, for example, feels that the college provides great experiences for student directors but does a weaker job making professional-level acting experience available to students.

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Dramatist Busch teaches master class

Harvard Gazette | February 10, 2005

At the master class, three groups of students acted scenes from Busch’s plays. Busch explained the origin of "Psycho Beach Party" as the students, Jojo Karlin ’05 and Scottie Thompson ’05, prepared to perform a scene from the play.

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All Hilles Courtyard’s a Stage

Harvard Crimson | April 26, 2002

It also enables them to modernize archaic roles. “Because the creepy witch doesn’t exist anymore, it’s more about feminine power and tapping into the femme fatale,” added Scottie Thompson.

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‘reason’ makes it’s own sense

Harvard Gazette | February 28, 2002

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THEATER REVIEWS


Oresteia: ‘A Harvest of Much’ Talent

Harvard Crimson | May 02, 2005

Lauren L. Jackson ’07, as the Leader of the Furies, exudes menace and dances wonderfully; Scottie Thompson ’05, as the doomed Trojan seer Cassandra, is eerie and compelling.

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‘Girls’ Tales Intrigue

Harvard Crimson | April 12, 2004

Props go to Scottie Thompson for an effortless transition and continuity between her roles. Cassie L. Fliegel ’06 as Marlene was solid but uninteresting in the first act, but Fliegel’s subtlety turned out to be a true plus.

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‘Balm In Gilead’ Review: Venturing into the Underworld

Harvard Crimson | October 25, 2004

Scottie Thompson’s Ann, a dragon-lady salt-of-the earth working girl, is also excellent: when the second act opens to Ann smoking a cigarette in quiet café, her back to a bear yellow wall, her bearing is that of a woman in a (racey) Hopper painting.

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‘Marisol’ Review: Angels Protect the Loeb Ex

Harvard Crimson | April 7, 2003

Scottie S. Thompson ’05 also offers a gem of a performance as Marisol’s co-worker and friend June. Thompson shows off her comedic flair in June’s first scene with Marisol with ease, bringing to life June’s understated vulnerability, her fear of isolation, and the multi-layered sentiments she holds towards her inexplicable, external world.

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Chilling with Macbeth

Harvard Independent | May 2, 2002

Some interpretations in this production may strike dissonant chords with Shakespearean purists. For instance, the witches, played by Perry Flesig-Green ’05, Scottie Thompson ’05, and Eric Lopez ’05, assume the shapes of the visions Macbeth sees, lending the weird sisters far more agency in the story than in other interpretations.

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The Balcony

The Record | November 14, 2002

Meanwhile, one prostitute (Scottie Thompson) has run off with her main client (Dan Cozzens) while another important customer (Matt Boch, well cast as the Police Chief) is late for a balcony appointment.

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‘Reason’ Review

The Theater Mirror | 2002

Meredith (Scottie Thompson), a young woman, decides to take the veil. Many years later, she revisits her old room in her parents’ house and finds it has been kept exactly the way she had left it.

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Review: ‘Reason’

Aisle Say | 2002

The Harvard students have their own strengths. JoJo Karlin, in her first year, exudes undergraduate confidence and believability. Susan Thompson, also in her first year, brings the centering of a trained dancer to her role as a postulant. Both the frosh are business assistants at for Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

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MISCELLANEOUS


Night with remote provides TV smorgasbord

Murfreesboro Post | February 2007

Scottie Thompson appears regularly on NCIS. She had a pretty big role last night as Jeanne Benoit, love interest of Special Agent Tony Dinozzo (Michael Weatherly). She’s a very pretty girl and apparently a pretty good actress, and it was fun to watch her as a beautiful adult who looks exactly like her mother instead of the young adolescent I last saw.

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Chasing Clara

Style Weekly | December 13, 2006

JoEllen Constine (1980) “can still remember the steps of the solo” she danced at that point, and Scottie Thompson (1994) says she had trouble counting that music, “so I was always really nervous.”

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ARTICLES BY SCOTTIE THOMPSON


Le kakatare mobilise les artistes pour la paix

Yëgóo Magazine | July 2004

No. 8, page 19.
Co-written with Grace Loew.

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Dancing Across Borders: A Profile of Esther Baker

Yëgóo Magazine | December 2003

No. 7, page 5.

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