Nancy Scott (August 18, 1931 – August 19, 2005)Robert Hurwitt
"Nancy Scott -- arts critic"
''SF Gate'', August 27, 2005. was an influential American theater/movie critic who worked for the '' San Francisco Examiner'' newspaper from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.

Background

Nancy duBois Scott was born in

Denver, Colorado Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...

, growing up there and in the

Estes Park Estes Park is a statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 5,904 at the 2020 United States Census. Estes Park is a part of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Cor ...

area. She attended Wellesley College in 1949 and 1951, and in 1950 married John W. Drake. From 1959 to 1969, she was employed by the ''People's World'' in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

and, after freelancing for a while, joined the ''San Francisco Examiner'' in 1977. Scott was integral to expanding the ''Examiner''′s coverage of theater and film beyond the traditional venues to the small and avant-garde performances and movies that were blossoming in the

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...

—including an early review of The

Reduced Shakespeare Company The Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) is an American touring acting troupe that performs fast-paced, seemingly improvisational condensations of different topics. The company's style has been described as "New Vaudeville," combining both physical a ...

that brought that acting troop its first mainstream notice. The Bay Area theater community acknowledged Scott’s efforts in the mid-1980s when a poll of Bay Area theaters voted her the best theater critic.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Nancy 1931 births 2005 deaths American theater critics American women theatre critics American film critics American women film critics