1. SCOTT ALLEGRUCCI
As Managing Member of The Far Shore, Scott brings experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, as
well as professional skills developed in the entertainment industry, economic development, public policy, political
accountability, and advocacy, with particular focus on energy, food, tourism, and the environment.
Recent consulting projects include work for The Land Institute, The Western Clean Energy Campaign, The
Kansas Values Institute, Communities of Excellence 2026, and the Kansas Rural Center.
Scott worked as a Senior Campaign Representative for the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign in Kansas,
Missouri and Nebraska. He was a founding member and Executive Director of the Great Plains Alliance for
Clean Energy, and Projects Director for the Climate and Energy Project of The Land Institute. He produced the
2003 and 2007 Kansas gubernatorial inauguration events for Governor Sebelius (both featuring local Kansas
foods, art, and culture) and served as the Director of the Tourism Development Division in the Kansas
Department of Commerce where he helped create the agritourism program, guide state brand image efforts,
and focused on the Flint Hills as a valuable Kansas treasure. He was Associate Artistic and Education Outreach
Director and for The Smokebrush Center for Art and Theater and wrote and narrated There’s No Place Like
Home, a national conference on the privatization of child welfare for the Kansas Department of Social and
Rehabilitation Services. He has served on the Board of Directors for various organizations.
Scott has acted, written, directed, and produced for film, television and theaters around the country. He was
nominated for an Austin Critics’ Table Award and received a B. Iden Payne Award from the Austin Circle of
Theaters, and is a past recipient of a Princess Grace Foundation Scholarship and later a PGF Statue Award and
Grant. He co-wrote the award winning short film script Mime and Punishment, and is an executive producer of
the independent feature film Earthwork. He has twice appeared with the Symphony in the Flint Hills.
Scott worked for a season on Cascadian Farms home farm in the Skagit River Valley in Washington, and spent a
summer working backcountry trail repair in Grand Teton National Park. He served as the initial Chair of the
Douglas County Food Policy Council, on the Locavore advisory board for the Lawrence Journal World’s
WellCommons community journalism initiative, participated in the US-Japan agricultural exchange project Global
Partnership for Local and Organic Foods, as a member of the Regional Food Systems Working Group as part of
the Leopold Center’s Value Chain Partnerships, and completed the Kansas Leadership Center Context and
Competencies weeklong training program.
Born in El Dorado, Kansas and raised in Pittsburg, Kansas, Scott studied biology at Pittsburg State University,
graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and holds a BA in Anthropology from
The Colorado College (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude). He currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his
young son.