Hi, my name is Ronda and welcome to my Sherie Rene Scott fan page on Myspace!
* DISCLAIMER - Just to make it clear, I am NOT Sherie Rene Scott nor am I affiliated with her in any way. I'm simply a fan who admires her and enjoys her work. I created this page in dedicaton to her.
Sherie has her own Myspace, which can be found as the first friend in the top friends list, as well as her redord labels Myspace pages for Sh-K Boom and Ghostlight Records!
Any questions, feel free to message me or e-mail me at [email protected]
Bio taken from Wikipedia
Scott was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of a nurse and a minister. She attended church services officiated by Fred Phelps during her young life, but acquired conflicting feelings about the Baptist religion when her gay cousin was excommunicated from the church. She studied acting at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater under Sanford Meisner while working as a waitress. Her first role was in the 25th-anniversary production of Hair in 1993 at the United Nations.
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, and being named as a Drama League honoree. She starred in the broadway role of Amneris in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (2000), for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award. Other Broadway credits include as Sally Simpson in Tommy (1993), Marty in Grease (1995-96), Maureen in Rent (1997), and originating the role of Ursula in The Little Mermaid (2007).
Off-Broadway musicals include John Guare’s Landscape of the Body at the Signature Theatre, for which she received a 2006 Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award. Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, and the title role in Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical. Regionally, she has appeared in world premiere productions of Randy Newman's Faust (1995), where she met her future husband, Kurt Deutsch, and Kander and Ebb’s, Over and Over, a musical adaptation of The Skin of Our Teeth, for which Scott was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award.
Along with husband Kurt Deutsch, Scott co-founded Sh-K-Boom Records and Ghostlight Records, labels dedicated to preserving original cast albums and solo recordings by Broadway artists. In just six years, they have released over 40 albums, earning four Grammy Award nominations and a special Drama Desk Award. Their catalogue includes The Drowsy Chaperone, The Last Five Years", and Scott's critically acclaimed solo CD, "Sherie Rene Scott: Men I've Had".
Scott also appears periodically in a solo show, which is explained in press notes as "Scott's collection of deeply personal stories. From her childhood in Topeka to her eventual rise to Broadway semi-star, this is her truth, her whole truth, and nothing but her truth… only better. Featuring songs made famous by such icons as Judy Garland, Rickie Lee Jones, Tom Waits, and Mr. Rogers, You May Now Worship Me reminds us that none of us are in Kansas anymore." The next performance of the solo show is on March 31, 2008 and will benefit the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of The Actors' Fund.
Scott also appeared in the 2003 film Marci X as Kirsten Blatt. Television credits include the roles of Dawn in The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery in 1998; and waitress Dori in My Guys in 1996.
She and her husband have a son and live in Putnam County, New York.
Sherie answers fans questions! Click the picture to read the Q&A of 'Ask A SAtar' on broadway.com!
