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. [ READ MORE ]

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. [ READ MORE ]

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. [ READ MORE ]

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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. [ READ MORE ]

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. [ READ MORE ]

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. [ READ MORE ]

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. [ READ MORE ]

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. [ READ MORE ]

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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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. [ READ MORE ]

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.[ READ MORE ]

This green-eyed Southern belle is a classically trained ballet dancer who spent many years with the Richmond Ballet before getting that Harvard education. So to recap, Thompson's smarter than you, can dance, can act, is sexy as hell and makes mad cash. [ READ MORE ]

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. [ READ MORE ]

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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