Scout Heckel

Scout Heckel is a Canadian neurodivergent and disabled, interdisciplinary and social practice artist from Fort Erie, ON. She graduated from Concordia University (Montreal, QC) in 2019 with a BFA in Contemporary Dance and is a current MFA candidate at ASU. Her research focuses on developing a Disability Arts Dramaturgy methodology that reimagines this traditional theatre framework through a critical disabilities perspective, for use across disciplines and cross-disabilities.

Scout works as a dramaturg helping artists dismantle systemic and internalized barriers as they relate to their artistic practices and identities. She was a dance dramaturg for Tamar Tabori’s “The Body Alphabet” (2022) with Company 605, and an access consultant and dramaturg for Amber Downie-Back’s installation and performance work, “...on the nature of” (2025) co-presented by Dance Victoria and Impulse Theatre.

She's the creator and Director of Expressive Youth Projects (EYP), a community-based pilot project awarded a $250,000 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts’ Strategic Innovation Fund in 2022. EYP connects artists with health and social-service providers to create inclusive and accessible arts experiences for vulnerable youth in Langley, BC.

Scout’s performance work has been shared through Shooting Gallery Performance Series #9 (2020), The Dance Centre’s 12 Minutes Max (2021), and What Lab’s 10:2:10- Material World (2022). She's exhibited her mixed-media work at the Vancouver Community Arts Council’s Outsider Arts Festival (2024).