SCRIPT CONSULTANT / DRAMATURG / MENTOR
Scott Alan Evans
If you’re a writer looking for professional feedback on your play, screenplay, or musical - or need help honing your project and getting it ready to send out - I offer a compassionate, knowledgeable, discerning, and rigorous eye that can help you take your work to the next level. With more than three decades of experience developing new work, I bring a collaborative, detailed approach to identifying what’s working, clarifying what’s not, and helping you shape your script into its strongest and most fully realized form.
Clear, detailed notes and a development roadmap for your next draft.
Hands-on collaboration to reshape, refine, or rebuild your script.
TAKE YOUR SCRIPT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
From offering a fresh outside perspective to supporting a full structural rewrite, our work together can take several forms depending on your needs.
Every project begins with a thorough written evaluation that addresses concept, structure, character development, pacing, and dialogue, along with beat-by-beat notes. We’ll then meet - virtually or in person - to talk through the material so that you leave with a clear, confident path forward.
If helpful, we can continue working together through subsequent drafts, ongoing mentorship, or more hands-on revision.
Whether you're writing for theatre, film, or television, all feedback is tailored to the form, your voice, and your specific goals.
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Full-length Plays
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Full-length Screenplays/Teleplays
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Full-length Musicals
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One-Act Plays (typically under 20 pages)
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Short Screenplays (typically under 20 pages)
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One-Act Musicals
SCOTT ALAN EVANS
I am a director, dramaturg, playwright, and mentor who has spent more than thirty years working closely with writers to develop new plays and musicals from first draft to full production. My background in directing and artistic leadership is the foundation of my script consulting work today: I understand how words on the page transform into living, breathing theatre - and what a script needs in order to truly connect with an audience.
For twenty-five years I served as the Executive Artistic Director of TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, an award-winning Off-Broadway company in New York City. During that time, I unearthed, developed, and produced more than two hundred plays, collaborating with playwrights, actors, designers, and artistic teams across a wide range of styles and traditions. Working on everything from new scripts to rarely seen classics taught me how to evaluate structure with precision, shape narrative arcs with clarity, and guide writers as they refine story, tone, dialogue, and character...
Every script has its own logic, rhythm, and emotional pulse, even if the piece isn’t fully formed yet. My work is to help you hear what the script is reaching toward and uncover the pathways that lead to a stronger, more resonant draft.
Script consulting isn’t about delivering the “right” answers, but about asking the right questions: Where is the story’s center? What does each scene want to accomplish? Why does the energy accelerate—or stall? How do the choices you’ve made bring the world of the piece into focus?
“He investigates the story I want to tell—not the one he might tell in my place.”— Kenneth Jones
The best measure of my work comes from the writers I’ve collaborated with. Here’s what some of them have to say...
LET'S CONNECT
If you’d like to talk about your project or have questions about the process, feel free to reach out. Whether you’re early in a draft or deep into revisions, I’m here to help.
Fees
Every project is different, and my fees reflect the length of the script, the depth of feedback needed, and the kind of support you’re seeking. I aim to keep my rates affordable, and most services fall between $75 to $350. I’m happy to talk through options and find the right level of support for your project.
I look forward to hearing about your work.
Photos by Jeffrey C. Hawkins & Mikael Schulz