About Joyful Heart Productions

Joyful Heart Productions is a faith-based arts organization.  Our mission is to produce opportunities for performing artists to perfect their God-given talents.  We produce dance and theater events, classes and workshops.

About Our Director, Tracy Ambush Scott

Tracy Scott grew up in a christian home.  Her father, Webster Ambush, has been a faithful member of his family church, St. Paul A.M.E., Della, MD, for several decades.  Her mother, Jeanette Ambush, was a singer, missionary and evangelist until her untimely death in 1982 from cancer.

After many years of singing in various church choirs, Tracy began dancing for God in 1990 while a member of Sanctuary Progressive Community Church, Frederick, MD.  It was here that she learned a lot about praise and worship.  She again sang on the choir and was a member of the praise and worship team for several years.  It was her love for dance and drama, however, that was her passion.  She became the director of the Fine Arts Ministry, producing talent programs, plays, art shows and design contests.

In other avenues, she worked briefly as a stage technician at the Weinberg Center for the Arts, and in 2002, she became the Facilities Coordinator for the Frederick Arts Council's Cultural Arts Center, a position she held for three years.

In 2007, she felt compelled to go beyond the church walls and start a community-wide, faith-based arts organization, Joyful Heart Productions.  The company would be composed of two parts.  For liturgical dance, they would produce fellowship opportunities amongst already established dance ministries - concerts, workshops, and web-based networking.  Theatrically, it would produce full-length christian plays, as well as provide acting workshops and small-scale performance opportunities.

Ms. Scott is truly grateful to God for the many gifts He has given her.  She is also grateful for her daughter, Rita Jean Scott, and loving and supportive family and friends.