Scott Rickenbaker, born in May of 1965, has always exhibited a strong interest in music and the performing arts. He began traveling the road that would ultimately lead to a career in theatrical productions while still a child by singing anywhere and everywhere he had the chance. Throughout his childhood, and with the full support of his strong family ties, he was encouraged to improve on his natural talent.

After graduating from Cardinal Newman High School in 1983, he enrolled in the University of South Carolina to study Media Arts. Because of his interest in music and performance, he specialized in Audio Technology. While there, he also found an outlet for his voice talents by becoming involved with USC's Carolina Alive between 1984 and 1988. Through this well known and popular singing group he experienced greater access to the world at large and traveled as far as Australia to perform.

In 1987, Scott graduated from USC with a BA in Media Arts, and soon found employment with IVS Media Productions. His main responsibilities while with this company involved setting up sound and microphone equipment at the Omni Hotel in Charleston, SC. Although he was pleased to find this first job within his field of study, he soon felt a vague dissatisfaction with the limitations of working for IVS. Hoping to find employment that would allow him to more fully express his creative talents, Scott left IVS in 1988. During this period, he found work as a Sound Engineer for various local bands including "Hootie and the Blowfish", "Public Ayes" and "Average Cadavers".

It didn't take Scott long to find employment with WACH TV in Columbia, SC. Scott started out editing tapes of commercials and movies while waiting to be further trained in Master Control, but within a short period of time found himself responsible for programming the station's computer to run the day's scheduled shows and advertisements. He also maintained the systems during the day making sure that sound and quality levels remained at their best standards.

Scott only stayed at WACH until 1989, when he found a new opportunity to express his many skills. He applied and was accepted for the position of Stage Manager at the Koger Center For The Arts. Since that time, Scott has worked many of the largest theatrical productions to visit Columbia, including "Cats", "M. Butterfly", "James Taylor", "Kodo Drummers of Japan" and "Mummenschanz".

After working a wide variety of shows, literally hundreds of them, Scott has become skilled in all aspects of maintaining the workings of a theatre house. He represents the building in providing qualified people for any type of event that is hosted at the Koger, and oversees them as they set up, run or break down each show. He is also extremely knowledgeable about the technical workings of all Koger Center equipment, from lights to lifts to travelers and drops. Scott finds that he is now very satisfied with being able to spread his creative wings by occasionally being allowed to design lights and staging for many local productions when they require such.

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