Scott Wentworth

Scott Wentworth is an American actor and director who moved to Canada in 1986. Born in Baltimore, he began his career in New York City and then joined the Stratford Shakespeare Festival for its 1985 production of The Glass Menagerie, going on to play a wide range of roles there, among them Cliff in Cabaret, Macbeth, Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. He also directed Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 in 2001 and The Adventures of Pericles in 2015. Returning to New York in 1989 for Welcome to the Club, he earned a Tony nomination for best featured actor in a musical. He has directed at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton and the Hillberry Theatre in Detroit, and co-wrote musicals including Gunmetal Blues and Enter the Guardsman, which was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 1997.