Daniel Scott
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This article is about the Australian actor. For the American writer, see Daniel Scott (writer)
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Daniel Scott is an Australian actor, probably best known for his performance in the stage production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical
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and by age fourteen, he was an accomplished pianist and had appeared in productions of Oliver!
, The Wizard of Oz
, The Sound of Music
, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Dick Whittington and His Cat
and Desperado.
He studied at the McDonald College of Performing Arts, Australian Theatre For Young People and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts. He was also accepted into the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He has received numerous scholarships form the likes of Sir Cameron Mackintosh
and Nicole Kidman
in association with ATYP and LendLease Australia.
Prior to Priscilla, he was mostly recognised from Dusty: The Original Pop Diva based on the life of Dusty Springfield
, where he created the roles of the "crazy Italian" San Remo Compere as well as Neil Tennant, Al Saxon and Eden Kane. In the Adelaide production of Shout! – The Musical, he performed the role of Johnny O'Keefe
. He has also toured for the Really Useful Group
in 2003/04 South Korean tour of Cats
as the Rum Tum Tugger
, also reprising the role in Athens in 2005.
Other theatre credits include Stephen Sondheim
's Assassins
; Mark Ravenhill's play Mother Clap's Molly House, La Cage aux Folles
, Get Happy and What The World Needs Now. He has also performed three one-man shows – Give Us A Break, Ikonika and The Sweet and Low Down. His television and film credits include ABC
's The Wizard of Solmar, Southern Star Group
's Young Lions
and Moulin Rouge!
, was seen to promote Scott from company member to leading man status. Despite garnering good reviews for his performance, he has been injured on two separate occasions, causing him to leave the show temporarily as Nick Hardcastle took over the role.
Daniel Scott has expressed to the press that playing the role of Adam/Felicia means a lot to him: "Doing something like this, there are more messages that I can send with Adam other than he is just a cute young kid that is messed up. I can show a mirror of the good and the bad side of the community." With the role, and having come out
at the age of 13, he feels a sense of responsibility to be a gay role model.
Daniel Scott (writer)
Daniel Scott is an American fiction writer best known for his discussions of marginalized characters of American society. He has also been cited as an "almost post-gay" writer in that he sometimes employs gay characters whose sexuality is not necessarily a driving force of the story...
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Daniel Scott is an Australian actor, probably best known for his performance in the stage production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical
Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a musical with a book by Australian film director-writer Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott, using well-known pop songs as its score...
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Life
He was born and raised in the Western suburbs of SydneySydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
and by age fourteen, he was an accomplished pianist and had appeared in productions of Oliver!
Oliver!
Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
, The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (adaptations)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, which has been adapted into several different works, the most famous being the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland...
, The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers...
, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Dick Whittington and His Cat
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Dick Whittington and His Cat is an English folk tale that has often been used as the basis for stage pantomimes and other adaptations. It tells of a poor boy in the 14th century who becomes a wealthy merchant and eventually the Lord Mayor of London because of the ratting abilities of his cat...
and Desperado.
He studied at the McDonald College of Performing Arts, Australian Theatre For Young People and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts. He was also accepted into the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He has received numerous scholarships form the likes of Sir Cameron Mackintosh
Cameron Mackintosh
Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York...
and Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...
in association with ATYP and LendLease Australia.
Prior to Priscilla, he was mostly recognised from Dusty: The Original Pop Diva based on the life of Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...
, where he created the roles of the "crazy Italian" San Remo Compere as well as Neil Tennant, Al Saxon and Eden Kane. In the Adelaide production of Shout! – The Musical, he performed the role of Johnny O'Keefe
Johnny O'Keefe
John Michael O'Keefe, known as Johnny O'Keefe was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the 1950s. Some of his hits include "Wild One" , "Shout!" and "She's My Baby"...
. He has also toured for the Really Useful Group
Really Useful Group
The Really Useful Group Ltd. is an international company set up in 1977 by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is involved in theatre, film, television, video and concert productions, merchandising, magazine publishing, records and music publishing...
in 2003/04 South Korean tour of Cats
Cats (musical)
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...
as the Rum Tum Tugger
Rum Tum Tugger
Rum Tum Tugger is one of the many feline characters in the poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, published in 1939, and in the musical Cats which was based on Eliot's book....
, also reprising the role in Athens in 2005.
Other theatre credits include Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
's Assassins
Assassins (musical)
Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr. It uses the premise of a murderous carnival game to produce a revue-style portrayal of men and women who attempted to assassinate Presidents of the United States...
; Mark Ravenhill's play Mother Clap's Molly House, La Cage aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. Based on the 1973 French play of the same name by Jean Poiret, it focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his romantic...
, Get Happy and What The World Needs Now. He has also performed three one-man shows – Give Us A Break, Ikonika and The Sweet and Low Down. His television and film credits include ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
's The Wizard of Solmar, Southern Star Group
Southern Star Group
Southern Star Group is Australia's largest independent television production and distribution group....
's Young Lions
Young Lions (TV series)
Young Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in Ireland on RTÉ Two.The series was based around the professional and private lives of four rookie detectives, the Young Lions, of South West 101, an inner city Sydney police station.The program rated poorly...
and Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert – The Musical
The role of Adam/Felicia, made famous by Guy PearceGuy Pearce
Guy Edward Pearce is an English-born Australian actor and musician, known for his roles as Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, Lieutenant Ed Exley in L.A...
, was seen to promote Scott from company member to leading man status. Despite garnering good reviews for his performance, he has been injured on two separate occasions, causing him to leave the show temporarily as Nick Hardcastle took over the role.
Daniel Scott has expressed to the press that playing the role of Adam/Felicia means a lot to him: "Doing something like this, there are more messages that I can send with Adam other than he is just a cute young kid that is messed up. I can show a mirror of the good and the bad side of the community." With the role, and having come out
Coming out
Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....
at the age of 13, he feels a sense of responsibility to be a gay role model.