Novelist, screenwriter, and playwright Scott Lax was called “a master wordsmith of the first order” by the Midwest Book Review. Scott teaches writing, specializing in screenwriting, at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he was the recipient of the 2025 Dan Tranberg Teaching Excellence Award.
Novelist, screenwriter, and playwright Scott Lax was called “a master wordsmith of the first order” by the Midwest Book Review. Scott teaches writing, specializing in screenwriting, at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he was the recipient of the 2025 Dan Tranberg Teaching Excellence Award. He was named “Midwest Filmmaker of the Year” by the Cleveland International Film Festival for the movie version of his novel, The Year That Trembled, which was listed as a “milestone in fiction” by the Denver Post. His two-act stage play adaptation of The Year That Trembled, called 1970, ran for two weeks in 2023 at the Chagrin Valley Little Theatre’s main stage. As of 2026, Scott has adapted his novel, Vengeance Follows, which Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Ron Powers called, “mesmerizing and masterful, with a Richard Russo-like respect for the human soul,” into a feature film screenplay.www.scottlax.com
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