Scott McCord is an award-winning actor, voice actor and musician. Born and raised in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, he spent his early years performing and competing as a classical pianist, under the tutelage of his mother. His professional acting career began at 17 playing Matt in a local summer stock production of "The Fantasticks". He spent the next two years touring a sketch-comedy revue "Once In A Lafftime" with Second City alumni. After studying theatre at Toronto's Ryerson University, and touring Canada and the U.S. fronting various rock bands, his foray into Toronto's independent theatre scene began.He was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore award and Toronto's Fan Expo and Comicon. An accomplished singer and multi-instrumentalist, he is band leader and frontman for the rock/soul outfit Scott McCord and the Bonafide Truth. The band was nominated Best Artist of the Year at the 2010 Maple Blues Awards, and their eponymous album released in 2012 received stellar reviews and generous radio play internationally. In 2013, Scott founded Criminal Theatre with playwright/actor Rosa LaBorde. Their first production, True, made it's premiere at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2014, and saw two sold out runs and a remount that same year. Now based in Brooklyn, NY, Scott is performing and collaborating with Parallel Exit, a theatre company that specializes in physical theatre.
