SCOTLAHAIE.COM

Scot Lahaie is a playwright, author, director, university professor, and Lead Pastor of The Furnace Christian Fellowship. This website serves to disseminate information about his playwriting activities. Click on the Script Library link at the top of the page to find more information about the plays Prof. Lahaie has written and translated in recent years. Most of his plays are now available in both Paperback and Kindle formats, and the Kindle versions are listed with Kindle Unlimited, so you may read the plays without further cost if you subscribe to KU.

If you're looking to request performance rights for one of Professor Lahaie's plays, make contact to discuss a guest lecture, or inquire about speaking engagements related to contemplative spirituality and church leadership, then you've come to the right place. Please visit the Contact Page to send a message.

Prof. Lahaie is a seasoned theater professional with a demonstrated penchant for the classic plays of the stage. As an actor, he played Romeo in ROMEO AND JULIET, Caliban in THE TEMPEST, Sir Andrew in TWELFTH NIGHT, and Estragon in WAITING FOR GODOT. He has also played the Baritone Leads in the Musicals JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS and THREE GUYS. His most successful role, which he has repeated three times, was Tito Morelli in LEND ME A TENOR.

As a stage director, Prof. Lahaie has directed more than 80 stage projects, to include Euripides' MEDEA, Shaw's MISALLIANCE, Corneille's POLYEUCTE, and Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT. He has also directed a number of Shakespeare's plays, to include MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and THE TEMPEST.

As a college professor, he has taught coursework in stage directing, stage design, dramatic criticism, theater history, dramatic literature, playwriting, theater business & non-profit management, musical theatre, stage combat, and acting at all levels. He has taught at Regent University (VA), Baylor University (TX), Gardner-Webb University (NC), and the University of Mount Union (OH).

Beyond the stage, Prof. Lahaie serves as Lead Pastor of The Furnace Christian Fellowship, a contemplative-charismatic house church in North Canton, Ohio, which he founded with his wife Ute in 2024. He is the author of Return to the Inner Temple: Reclaiming the Secret Places in Christian Discipleship, exploring the intersection of contemplative Christian mysticism and charismatic worship. His theological interests inform both his ministry and creative work, including The Realms of Light Saga, an ongoing seven-book mythic fantasy series that weaves biblical typology through different historical eras.