Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Scott, Andrea
Playwright, actor, and producer, Andrea Scott was born in 1971, and grew up in London, Ontario. She saw her first play at the Grand Theatre, London, and began acting at 17. She has a BA and a Masters degree in theatre from the University of Toronto.
After completing a year in the Obsidian Theatre Company Playwrights Unit, she wrote Eating Pomegranates Naked, which won the RBC Arts Professional Award, and named Outstanding Production at the 2013 SummerWorks Festival. Better Angels: A Parable won the SummerWorks Award for Production and was published by J. G. Shillingford in 2018. Don’t Talk to Me Like I’m Your Wife, which won the Cayle Chernin Award for theatre, ran at SummerWorks in 2016. Every Day She Rose, co-written play with Nick Green, played at Buddies in Bad Times in 2019 (published by Playwrights Canada Press, 2022). Controlled Damage, her play about Viola Desmond, the Nova Scotia woman who defied segregation law, had its sold-out world premiere at Neptune Theatre in 2020 and opened at the Grand Theatre in 2023 (published by J. G. Shillingford, 2020). Andrea Scott has said that she “like[s] writing about women who have not been given enough credit in history” (lfpress.com 2022).
She has been in the playwright units at Obsidian Theatre, Cahoots Theatre Projects, Roseneath Theatre, Factory Theatre, Theatre Direct, Nightwood Theatre, and Eastern Front Theatre. She was the Canada Council Playwright in Residence at Tarragon Theatre in 2020-2021.
She has created two Podcasts for the CBC: Better Angels: A Parable and Controlled Damage.
Her work as an actor includes Omnium Gatherum at Canadian Stage; Danny, King of the Basement by David S. Craig with Roseneath Theatre, which toured across Canada ; and who knew grannie: a dub aria (a collaboration of Obsidian with Factory Theatre).
Andrea Scott currently lives in Toronto.
Last updated 2023-02-17
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