Scott, 16, grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the Beverly neighborhood, where he started his political activism by volunteering for Barack Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign at the age of 13. When he entered high school at Walter Payton College Prep, Scott became an active member of his school’s queer-straight alliance. Under his unofficial presidency the Alliance has hosted two now-annual coming out days, as well as organizing 20% of his school to participate in the 2009 Day of Silence.
During his sophomore year in high school, Scott found About Face Theater—and his calling. As a member of the youth theater, Scott has appeared in Fast Forward and Stupid Kids, and participated in a special 10-year anniversary reading of The Laramie Project. Scott is also a member of the youth committee for the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance, and recently worked with Equality Illinois in attempting to pass the Illinois Civil Union and Religious Freedom Act.
Did you know? Scott played a magical forest nymph in a school production of the Frog Prince.