Sylvain Scott

Since graduating from the professional theatre department at Collège Lionel-Groulx in 1988, Sylvain Scott has made a name for himself as an actor, singer, stage director, and composer. He is also the co-founder and artistic co-director of Théâtre Le Clou, a company that creates shows for youth and adult audiences in Quebec and in Europe. For the company, he has directed works including Faire crier les murs, Le chant du Koï, and Océantume. His productions of Je suis William and Le Scriptarium 2019 won critics’ awards for Best Young Audience Show from the Quebec Theatre Critics Association.

On stage, he was seen in La Métamorphose (Théâtre Denise-Pelletier), staged by Claude Poissant in the fall of 2021; in L’Homme de la Mancha (Théâtre du Rideau Vert) in 2019, under the direction of René-Richard Cyr; in a revival of La fête sauvage (Théâtre de Quat’Sous); as well as in 2012 – Revue et corrigée and Un violon sur le toit (Théâtre du Rideau Vert); Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Frères de sang (Productions Libretto); La bonne âme du Sé-Tchouan, Antoine et Cléopâtre, Jeanne Dark, L’Opéra de Quat’sous, and Le Misanthrope (Théâtre du Nouveau Monde); Footloose, La mélodie du bonheur, and Hairspray (Juste pour rire); and, on the English-language stage, in Prom Queen – The Musical (Segal Centre). In the summer of 2022, he was in the cast of the musical Rock of Ages. Last May, for the musical theatre graduates of Collège Lionel-Groulx, he directed Cordélia, a musical for which he wrote the script and book. He is currently working on the stage direction of Newton, a new musical that will be staged at Théâtre La Marjolaine in Eastman in the summer of 2023.