Since 1990, Scott J. Parker has been the director of the Institute of Outdoor Drama, a national advisory and research agency of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He is the former producer of Paul Green’s The Lost Colony, and in 2005, co-authored the second edition of Creating Historical Drama. Parker taught in the theatre program at Duke University for six years, and was a professor of theatre at East Carolina University for seven. He is a founding member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, holds an MFA degree from the University of Virginia and an MA from the University of North Carolina. Parker is a former president of the National Theatre Conference, the Southeastern Theatre Conference, and the North Carolina Theatre Conference. Since 1990 he has served as the Vice President of the Paul Green Foundation. In 2000, he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, and in 1992, received the Suzanne M. Davis Award for distinguished service to theatre in the South.