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Jeremy Scoggins

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Born in Hartford, KY, Jeremy grew up between the farm and small town life, earned his BS in English from Brescia University in Owensboro and is a proud father. He spent five years in the Navy, where he traveled all over the Pacific, he has taught in Daviess County Public Schools, been an armature wrestler, a factory worker, amongst other things and has recently returned from a two and a half year hiatus from the stage to be a ESL professor at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea . He is also an aspiring author and playwright, with publications in Open 24 Hours, and several articles and features in the Brescia Broadcast, as well as a graphic artist, and formerly a manager of local rock bands.


In the performing arts, he was awarded with experience in high school band and marching band, and show choir, but his passion for acting came about with high school theatre productions such as GREASE, WHY DO WE LAUGH (directed by playwright, Stephen Gregg), OLIVER! and many others. He has spent many hours onstage and behind the scenes, in tech, make-up, directing, writing, set design, and set construction. He has performed for Courthouse Players in Hartford as Col. Henry Blake in M*A*S*H (one of his more favorite roles), Theatre Workshop of Owensboro, Mill Race Players (Columbus, IN), and several productions with the Oak Island Theatre Troupe (Owensboro Community College) where he honed his skills under the tutelage of Dr. Julia Ledford who he calls his dramatic mentor and dear friend. Some of his most cherished roles include, Vladimir in WAITING FOR GADOT, Sir Toby in Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT, Kenickie in GREASE (second production), and Jarret in Graham Farrow’s RATTLESNAKES. He says his ultimate role, besides the ones he has already accomplished, is to play Iago in Shakespeare’s OTHELLO. “Once I have mastered the one truly evil character in Shakespearian literature, I have accomplished greatness as an actor,” Jeremy says. He debuted with Merely Players' in LIFE IS SHORT and made his directorial debut with SPOOGE: THE SEX & LOVE MONOLOGUES and hopes to continue with many other productions in the future.


"As in any form of writing or artistic expression, you draw from what you know," he says, “I have had many experiences in my life and have a million faces to connect them to. There is one quote that sums it all up, in acting and in life, ‘There are no small roles, just small actors.’ William Shakespeare.”

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