Scott Jackson has served as the Mary Irene Ryan Family Executive Director of Shakespeare at Notre Dame since 2007, providing oversight for the many Shakespeare-related programs housed at the University of Notre Dame with a particular focus on engaging the local community through the works of William Shakespeare. Previously he served as executive director for the Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre in Fairbanks, Alaska. With the theatre, he produced and performed in outdoor Shakespeare productions at venues throughout Alaska and toured around the globe (most notably at the VIII World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, Australia, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland). From 2000 to 2003, Jackson was the business and legal affairs coordinator for Brighter Pictures Ltd. (now a part of Endemol Shine UK), one of the U.K.’s most successful independent television and film production companies. He holds a dual B.A. in Theatre and History from Indiana University Bloomington, as well as intensive study in acting at the London Centre for Theatre Studies. He has produced, directed, and performed in over 130 productions. Jackson served as Treasurer for the Shakespeare Theatre Association (2013–2017) and is an instructor of acting process at the University of Notre Dame and Holy Cross College. A firm believer in the power of Shakespeare and the theatre arts to effect positive social change, he teaches a weekly Shakespeare-in-Performance course at the Westville Correctional Facility and recently began a yearlong project creating a world-premiere adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It specifically for children and adults with an autism spectrum diagnosis. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Actor Training and Coaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and recently certified as a kundalini yoga teacher through Maya Fiennes' Yoga for Real Life method.