Sherie Rene Scott
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Sherie Rene Scott
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| Born |
February 8, 1967 Kentucky, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, writer |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Children | 1 |
Sherie Rene Scott (born February 8, 1967) is an American actress, singer, writer and producer. She is a co-founder of Grammy Award-winning Sh-K-Boom Records and Ghost light Records. She has also been seen in multiple Off-Broadway and Broadway musicals/plays, and appears on numerous solo and original cast recordings.
Scott was born in Kentucky. When she was 4 years old, her family moved to Topeka, Kansas, where she grew up. Scott moved from Topeka to New York City when she was 18 to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. She is a writer in residence at Second Stage Theater and lives with her son in New York City.
Scott will appear in The Front Page as 'Mollie Malloy' with an all-star cast including Nathan Lane, John Slattery, Holland Taylor, John Goodman, Jefferson Mays and Robert Morse. Jack O'Brien will direct the production premiering on Broadway Fall 2016 at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Whorl Inside A Loop, written by Scott and Dick Scanlan, premiered August 27, 2015 at the Second Stage Theatre. Directed by Michael Mayer and Mr. Scanlan, Whorl garnered critical acclaim, including several 'Best of 2015 Theater' Lists.
Scott's You May Now Worship Me, co-authored with Dick Scanlan, raised $200,000 to benefit the Phyllis Newman's Women's Health Initiative of The Actor's Fund. The one night only fundraiser premiered March 31, 2008 at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre. You May Now Worship Me would later become the concept behind Everyday Rapture.
In 2010, Scott starred in the critically acclaimed production Everyday Rapture, which Scott wrote with co-author Dick Scanlan. Everyday Rapture began its run on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre in previews April 19, 2010, and officially opened on April 29, 2010. The show played to sold out audiences throughout the run, finally ending its limited engagement on July 11, 2010. Scott received Tony Award nominations for Best Book, and Best Leading Actress in a Musical, and Drama Desk Award nominations in the categories of Best Leading Actress, Best Book, and Best Musical for Rapture.
On Broadway she has starred in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, garnering nominations for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award. She starred as Amneris in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida (2000), for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award and was a Drama League Honoree. The single "A Step Too Far" performed by Elton John, Heather Headley and Sherie Rene Scott from the 1999 Elton John And Tim Rice's Aida Concept Album charted at #15.
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