Siiri Scott... ensures that no moment is wasted nor any narrative advancement rushed to its conclusion
-Windy City Times
Siiri Scott is the Head of Acting and Directing at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre.  Currently in her 26th year with the department, she teaches advanced acting, voice, dialects and movement.  After many years with the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival as a voice/dialect coach and actor, Siiri returned to Chicago to continue her professional work and commutes back to Notre Dame to teach. A graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul, she has worked locally with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Lifeline Theatre and hosted the KidsWB TV Network for WCIU.

Regional work includes a stint in Los Angeles where she appeared on City of Angels; Milwaukee, where she performed in The Kentucky Cycle and co-directed Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry; and Seattle, where she worked with Theatre Babylon, Book-it Repertory Theatre and Seattle Children’s Theatre.

Siiri is a company member of the international Japanese Noh theatre, Theatre Nohgaku and The Irish Theatre of Chicago where she directed both the Jeff-nominated production of My Brilliant Divorce  and critically acclaimed productions of The Weir, Pineapple and Molly Sweeney for the Irish Theatre of Chicago.   

Siiri’s voiceover career includes museum installations, commercials, and she has narrated over 100 audiobooks.
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THE WEIR 
Irish Theatre of Chicago | Written by Conor McPherson
REVIEWS

  • “directed with a steady hand by Siiri Scott” - Chicago Tribune – Review by Kerry Reid (3 stars!) | Read Full Review
  •  “McPherson’s work remains perfectly at home at Irish Theatre of Chicago, a company currently restaging its 2010 production of “The Weir” with most of the original cast intact and directed in fine detail by Siiri Scott.” - Chicago Sun Times – Review by Mary Houlihan | Read Full Review
  • “The Weir” makes deceptively complex demands on the ensemble, abetted here by the ever-present integrating hand of director Siiri Scott.” - Chicago on the Aisle – Review by Larry Johnson | Read Full Review
  • “Irish Theater of Chicago lives up to its baptismal name of "Seanachai" (Gaelic for "storyteller" ) under the deft direction of Siiri Scott, who ensures that no moment is wasted in actorly posturing nor any narrative advancement rushed to its conclusion ( despite the performance time spanning a mere 90 minutes ).” - Windy City Times – Review by Mary Barnidge | Read Full Review​​
MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE - Jeff Award Nomination for Solo Performance
Irish Theatre of Chicago | Written by Geraldine Aron
REVIEWS

  • “Director Siiri Scott ensures Figgins delivers an unhurried and candid reflection.” - The Fourth Walsh – Review by Katy Walsh | Read Full Review
  •  “The impact of director Siiri Scott’s subtle work is such that it is as though we are feeling with Angela, while also being privileged a humorous distance” - New  City – Review by Joy Miller | Read Full Review​
SAVAGE IN LIMBO
Notre Dame University | Written by John Patrick Shanley
REVIEW

  • “Under Siiri Scott’s direction, the production’s five actors inhabited their characters with visceral physicality and emotional honesty...Scott paces the production well so that the characters’ actions have an urgent undercurrent to them, as if this is the only night of their lives when they might glimpse an answer to that question” - Tribune – Review by Andrew S. Hughes | Read Full Review
DESIGN FOR LIVING
​Notre Dame University | Written by Noel Coward
FEATURE
  • “Scott acknowledges the play's potential for raising hackles but thinks that today's audiences can tell the difference between moral statements and a lighthearted, funny play. "I think the play seems benign on the surface but titillates with a subversive ending," she says. "The play is not a recommendation for a 'design for living' but the choice for these three people. ” - Tribune – Feature by Evan Gillespie | Read Full Feature
GLASS MENAGERIE
​Notre Dame University | Written by Tennesse Wiliams
REVIEW
  • “As directed by Siiri Scott, this well-chosen student cast never forces, never over-plays. They make few movements that aren't specifically demanded by the script. ” - Tribune – Review by Julie York Coppens | Read Full Review
THE DISPUTE
​Notre Dame University | Written by Pierre de Marivaux
FEATURE
  • “We sort of have this very contrived, manicured world that we put everyone into,” Scott says about her setting for The Dispute. We’re looking at that time that was about Levittown (N.Y.) and the suburb, the ability to over-manipulate the world, so we manicure our lawns, and women are dressed in a very cinched way at the waist. The men wear what you would see on ‘Mad Men.’ ”
    - South Bend Tribune – Feature by Andrew S Hughes | Read Full Feature
LOVE'S FIRE
​Notre Dame University | Written by Eric Bogosian, Ntozake Shange, Marsha Norman, Tony Kushner, William Finn, Wendy Wasserstein and John Guare
REVIEW
  • “Director Siiri Scott and company have taken a huge risk with this material...These young actors have done it, by remembering the basics:  Listening. Reacting. Pursuing objectives. Raising the stakes." - Tribune – Review by Julie York Coppens | Read Full Review

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