Scottie Thomasin Barsotti is a playwright and author originally from Pittsburgh, PA. She writes plays of all kinds, but focuses on work in the Horror genre.

Scottie’s plays include Brewed, The Revenants, Kill Me, Entry (or, you think you know me), Jet Black Chevrolet, Facing Angela, and adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Body Snatcher and H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Scottie’s work has been performed nationwide and a few spots overseas; her plays have been produced and/or developed by the Goodman Theatre (Playwrights Unit), WildClaw Theatre, Curious Theatre Branch, The Route 66 Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, Lifeline Theatre, Stage Left Theatre, The Ruckus, Tympanic Theatre, the side project, and Steep Theatre among others. Her plays have been seen at the New York International Fringe Festival and the Rhinoceros Theater Festival, as well as festivals produced by SCI-FEST Los Angeles, Collaboraction, American Theater Company and many more, as well as live events such as the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2), WildClaw Theatre’s DEATHSCRIBE, and the Paper Machete. She was a finalist for the 2016 Lanford Wilson Award.

Scottie has previously been a company member of WildClaw Theatre and Curious Theatre Branch, and a Resident Playwright alumna at Chicago Dramatists. She received a BA in English from Denison University, and an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.