Eric Scott
Eric Scott has been a journalist all his life. He started in the UK in Nottingham as a general reporter but soon got a feeling for showbiz. He began to write theatre and movie reviews and meet many of the stars of the time. People like Tom Jones, The Beatles, Muhammad Ali, Peter O'Toole and many, many more movie stars.
He worked for TV Times magazine in the UK and moved to Melbourne in 1970. There He worked on TV Times and TV Week magazines. The Logies was always a big three days of mixing with superstars like John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Gina Lollobrigida, Charlton Heston, Bette Midler. The list goes on.
He moved to Brisbane in 1982 to “get away from showbiz”. It lasted until 1985 when he went on stage for the first time and began writing in earnest.
Now I do a weekly spot on Spectrum on Radio 4EB FM98.1 and run my own website.
His first novel was published in 1976 an adult book called The Sound Mixers. His first play was written in 1985, and that was a stage adaptation of The Soundmixers. Since then eleven one-act plays for teenagers were published in two volumes by Pearson Education, Take Five and Five More, which are standard fare in most high schools around Australia.
During this time, as well as the play series he also had published a teenage novel called Time Trek and a Storybridge book for University of Queensland Press, called The Great Fairytale Robbery, which is also a stage musical.
Since then he has written many more plays, adult comedies and dramas and children’s musical plays. His latest novel was Windsong, which I completed in 2012.
Almost everything he has written for theatre has been produced, most in amateur theatre but some as profit share ventures and professional productions.
He has also had a career as an actor on stage, television, and film.