Scottie received her BA from the University of Virginia in 2007, where she was awarded the T. Braxton Woody award for French and the William Demoville Pettway Prize for drama. Performances there include The Cherry Orchard, Seven Menus, and Foreplay, or the Art of the Fugue. Regional acting credits include Waiting for Philip Glass at Hollins University's Wendy Wasserstein Symposium, Shakespeare's R&J with URT at the Earl Hamner, Jr. Theatre, and the world premiere of A Shadow of Honor at the 2007 Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival. She has directed at the University of Virginia and St. Catherine's School in Richmond, VA, where her credits include Funeral Parlor, Graceland, Oedipus Tyrranus, A Rustle of Wings, and Call of the Wild: the musical. Costume design credits include Arcadia and The Importance of Being Earnest.