His first play, JFK: A Ghostly Evening, was staged at the Just Off Broadway Theater in Kansas City in November, 2013. Kansas City Star theatre critic, Robert Trussell wrote of the play: When a first-time playwright creates a work that packs a punch, the natural response is to find out what else he has tucked away on his computer. “JFK: A Ghostly Evening,” receiving its premiere production at Just Off Broadway Theatre, is the first piece by Scott Myers to receive a full staging, and the results are impressive. The show is buoyed by serious intent and a provocative view of history. Too many playwrights have only theater as a frame of reference. Myers comes at the art form from the real world.”
Myers also wrote “Goat Song”, a two act play which received a full staging with professional actors in Kansas City in June, 2016 at the Just Off Broadway Theater. He has also written other full length plays: Star Over Our Tree House, Stealing Kandinsky, Big Horn’s Secret, Your Flight Leaves Tonight and The Moon’s Language. All these plays addressed contemporary human struggles and often featured inter-racial casts, African-American, Native American and Caucasian. One of the goals of his plays is to create an inter-racial audience and inter-racial community and conversation.
Scott Myers was an ordained Presbyterian minister at the historic Westport Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Missouri. He helped lead the church through a five year long crisis after a catastrophic fire(2011), which concluded with the rebuilding of a unique, beautiful, architecturally innovative church in the historic area of Westport in Kansas City. He served Westport Presbyterian from 1994 to 2023. The church was founded in 1835.
Scott received a $45,000 grant from Lily Endowment in 2005 to study “arts and spirituality”. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A.,History, English) University of Dayton (Masters of Counseling) and Eden Theological Seminary (M. Div.). He left his wife, Jeanne Reiss Myers, M.D., three children and has eight grandchildren.