Sherie Rene Scott is Obie and Lucille Lortel award winning, multiple Drama Desk nominee, and three-time Tony Award nominee for her work as a supporting actor in the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and as a writer and as a lead actor for the musical Everyday Rapture. Sherie can recently be seen in a recurring role on “Harlem” for Amazon and on The Good Fight for Paramount+. Prior to that, Sherie had a major recurring role in Showtime’s Smilf. Most recently in the theater world, Sherie authored and performed with Norbert Leo Butz their highly acclaimed original musical collaboration, Two Hander at Feinstein’s / 54 Below. In 2017, Sherie appeared in the sold-out Broadway run of The Front Page with Nathan Lane, John Goodman, and John Slattery. That year she also originated the John Patrick Shanley play The Portuguese Kid off-Broadway with Jason Alexander and portrayed ‘Gertrude’ in the first half-Farsi Hamlet with Arian Moayed. Sherie originated the roles of Amneris in The Disney/Elton John & Tim Rice musical Aida and can be heard on the Grammy winning cast recording’, as Christine with John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and can be heard on the Grammy nominated recording, alongside Lily Taylor in John Guare’s Landscape Of The Body, as ’Sabina’ in Kander and Ebb’s Over and Over, originating Pepa in Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, as Martha in Randy Newman’s Faust, and as Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, among others. Sherie founded the first independent Broadway and Off-Broadway cast album record label; the multiple Grammy winning Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records. Sherie was a co-producer of the film The Last Five Years and can be heard on the original Off-Broadway cast album recording originating the role of Cathy.
(Sherie Rene Scott, photo courtesy of O&M)