Sherie Rene Scott (born February 8, 1967) is an American actress, singer and writer. Scott recently premiered 'Everyday Rapture' at the Second Stage Theatre in New York City to critical acclaim and is set to premiere it on broadway in 2010. She is a co-founder of Sh-K-Boom Records and Ghostlight Records and has appeared in numerous both Off Broadway and Broadway productions and recordings.

Career

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 and was a Drama League Honoree. The single "A Step Too Far" performed by Elton John, Heather Headley and Sherie Scott from the 1999 Elton John And Tim Rice's Aida Concept Album charted at #15. Other Broadway credits include 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) for which she received her second Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical.

Off-Broadway productions include John Guare’s play Landscape of the Body at the Signature Theatre, for which she received a 2006 Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award and was a Drama League honoree. Musicals include Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years for which she received a Drama Desk Award Nomination, 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.