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Scott Lax

Recipient of the 2025 Dan Tranberg

Teaching Excellence Award

From the

Cleveland Institute of Art

Novelist • Screenwriter • Producer • Playwright • Professor

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Scott with longtime friends and sometimes creative partners – the late Fred Willard, who passed in 2020, and Martin Mull, who died June 27, 2024.

Photo credit: Mary Willard, Dec. 2011

Ripton, Vermont, August, 1993. After supper at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, where he was on a nonfiction scholarship, Scott hiked up the road to Robert Frost's writing cabin near sunset. Moments after this photo, Scott got the idea to write the novel that would become The Year That Trembled, which became the movie and play of the same name, and later, the play 1970. 

June 2002. Martin Mull, Scott Lax, and Fred Willard on the set of the feature film, "The Year That Trembled," based on Scott's novel of the same name. Fred and Martin were two of the film's stars, and Scott was one of the producers. 

Before Scott was a profesional writer and professor, he was a drummer. (Still is, once in a while.) This was taken in the summer of 1982 at Mad Dog Recording Studio in Venice, CA, when Scott recorded with Will Ryan and Phil Baron, aka "Willio and Phillio." Also on that never-released record were Buzzy Lindhart (1943 - 2020) and Robby Krieger of The Doors. 

February 2012, ideastream PBS studios, Cleveland, Ohio. Scott Lax with comedy legends, pals & co-creators, co-writers & co-executive producers Martin Mull & Fred Willard on the set of the TV pilot, "Cleveland Late-Late."

September 2023. Scott with the cast, producer, and director of his play, "1970"

Scott and friend of 32 years, Ron Powers, in 1993, at a cocktail reception at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, where Scott was on a nonfiction scholarship. Ron Powers is one of America's great nonfiction authors, as well as a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic.

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