Education: BA, Seattle Pacific College, 1968; MA, Seattle Pacific College, 1971; MA, University of Washington, 1975; PhD, Graduate Theological Union and Pacific School of Religion, 1994. At SPU since 1970.
George Scranton has been teaching theatre at Seattle Pacific for more than four decades. He holds degrees in speech (with a drama emphasis) and religion, biblical literature, theatre history and criticism, and theology and theatre. He has also taken stage movement training at Webster University’s American Movement Institute in St. Louis, Missouri, and at the Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Of the dozen plays Dr. Scranton has written and/or adapted, three received national awards by the Christians in Theatre Arts Guild (CITA). Another was selected as one of seven national winners in a contest co-sponsored by the American Theatre Association’s (ATA) Religion and Theatre Forum Group and Anchorage Press, for inclusion in Wrestling With God: New Plays With Jewish or Christian Themes. His latest full-length play, Ring-a-Ring of Roses, won the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's (ATHE) Religion and Theatre annual playwriting contest.
Dr. Scranton directed and toured with Seattle Pacific University’s “Chancel Players” for 20 years, and wrote many of their performance scripts. His academic and professional acting credits include performing in more than 30 plays. His directing credits include more than 90 plays in both educational and professional venues, including Taproot Theatre Company; Acacia Theatre Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and TOV in Manhattan, Kansas. Dr. Scranton is ordained to specialized ministry in the Evangelical Covenant Church.