Scott Wentworth

Who is Scott Wentworth?

Scott Wentworth 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, Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, Shylock in Merchant of Venice and Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. 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. As a director, he has worked at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, and the Hillberry Theatre in Detroit.

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 collaboration is Enter the Guardsman, based on the Ferenc Molnár play The Guardsman, and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 1997.