Scott Wentworth

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Scott Wentworth
Born	1955 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Scott Wentworth (1955 – ) is an American actor currently living and working primarily in Canada.

After starting his career in New York City, he began a long association with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in the 1985 production of The Glass Menagerie. He would later perform in a wide variety of roles at Stratford, such as Cliff in Cabaret, the title role in Macbeth, and Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls. He also directed Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 in 2001.

He returned to New York in 1989 to appear in Welcome to the Club, and received a Tony nomination (Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical). As a director, he has worked at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, and the Hillberry Theatre in Detroit.^[1]

Wentworth has co-written musicals with his wife Marion Adler. Their first collaboration, Gunmetal Blues, has been performed at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the Colony Theatre in Burbank, California. Their most recent collboration is Enter the Guardsman, based on the Molnar play The Guardsman, and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award (Best Musical) in 1997.^[2][3]

[edit] Television credits

• Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993), Detective Griffin
• Law & Order (2002), Senator Elliot Judson (one episode)
• Diary of the Dead (2008), Andrew Maxwell

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Scott Wentworth at the Internet Movie Database
• Scott Wentworth at the Internet Broadway Database