Scott Barry

Scott Barry was raised in the tiny farming town of Walnut Grove, California. He graduated from the University of California, Davis, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and All-American honors in football, before being drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. Scott is a produced playwright, screenwriter and solo performer. He has written, directed and starred in various theatrical productions from Los Angeles to New York. San Francisco Weekly declared Scott’s show RISE a “Seriously entertaining late night confession,” and the San Francisco Examiner said it, “Strikes at the heart of our being.”

Scott’s first one-man show, The Greener the Grass, was nominated for solo performance of the year by the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle and was called a “Beautifully written and constructed jazz riff,” SF Guardian, and a “Brilliant Joycean reverie,” SF Bay Times.

His short film, Answer Man, screened in the New York International Independent Film Festival. Scott co-wrote the adapted screenplay, Rollover, for Academy Award winning actor/producer, Michael Douglas, and adapted the bestselling novel, The Green, for New York based Hawker Entertainment.

His first book, The Greener the Grass, was published in 2018, and was called “insightful,” “touching,” and “remarkable.”