Scottee

{{short description|British actor}}

Scottee is an activist, actor and writer from North London.

Scottee has created activist artworks and projects with communities across the UK and Ireland. These have included working with his grandfather to tackle ageism,{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-real-liam-gallagher-929/ |title=Vice - Meet 'The Real Liam Gallagher', the 79-Year-Old Irish Artist Tackling Ageism in the Art World |publisher=vice.com |date=26 May 2014 |access-date=26 May 2014}} public artwork in Southend addressing queer trauma,{{cite web|url=http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/scottee-southend-queer-visibility/ |title=Huck - What happens when you ask your community if it's homophobic |publisher=huckmagazine.com |date=3 March 2017 |accessdate=3 March 2017}} Hamburger Queen, a talent show for fat people exploring fat activism,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/12/he-big-beauty-contest

|title=The Big Beauty Contest |website=The Guardian |date=12 March 2012 |accessdate=12 March 2012}} establishing Peterborough Pride,{{Cite web|title=PETERBOROUGH PRIDE 2018|url=http://www.metalculture.com/projects/peterborough-pride/|access-date=11 October 2020|website=Metal|language=en}} participant-led dance show Fat Blokes,{{Cite web|title=Fat Guys Talk About Living Life as Fat Guys|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmdbqa/fat-guys-talk-about-living-life-as-fat-guys|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128201105/https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmdbqa/fat-guys-talk-about-living-life-as-fat-guys|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 28, 2020|access-date=11 October 2020|website=Vice.com|date=5 November 2018 |language=en}} and stage show Class looking at poverty and class system in the UK.,{{Cite web|date=8 August 2019|title=Scottee: Class review – check your privilege, row A|url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/aug/08/scottee-class-review-check-your-privilege|access-date=11 October 2020|website=The Guardian|language=en}}

Scottee has written on subjects for newspapers such as The Guardian, i-D Magazine and Global Citizen. In a piece in The Guardian expressing concerns about pay and the problems of working in the arts industry, he stated: "The arts are essentially a namby-pamby life of stealing Wi-Fi, cheap coffee, waiting tables and overpriced weekend workshops in improvisation that leaves you, at times, financially and mentally unstable."{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2014/feb/03/uk-arts-reasons-not-involved |title=UK arts: reasons not to get involved | Culture professionals network | Guardian Professional |publisher=Theguardian.com |date=3 February 2014 |accessdate=10 February 2014}}

He was co-host for almost 10 years to BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends after first appearing on the programme on 18 December 2012.,{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012s8n1 |title=BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, Sophie Parkin, Sarah Hadland, Peter Wight, Scottee, Ed Harcourt and Clock Opera, Scottee on underlashes, hula-hooping and the politics of camp |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=15 December 2012 |accessdate=10 February 2014}}. In 2020 Scottee became the host of the After The Tone podcast, first published in August that year.{{Cite web|last=TONE|first=AFTER THE|title=AFTER THE TONE|url=https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZC5jby9hZnRlci10aGUtdG9uZQ|access-date=11 October 2020|website=Google Podcasts|language=en}}

In 2017 Scottee became Associate Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London,{{cite web|url=http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/artsresearch/2017/10/06/bcctautumn17/ |title=Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre – Autumn 2017 |publisher=bbk.ac.uk |date=6 October 2017 |accessdate=6 October 2017|archive-date=16 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240616004819/http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/artsresearch/2017/10/06/bcctautumn17/}} and 2018 he became an Associate Artist at HOME, Manchester. From 2017 to 2023, he was the Artistic Director of Scottee & Friends Ltd.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/appointments/scottee-leaves-theatre-collective-scottee-and-friends-after-five-years |title=Scottee leaves theatre collective Scottee and Friends after five years |publisher=thestage.co.uk |date=21 March 2023 |access-date=8 May 2024}}

In 2024, he played the supporting character of Noam in BBC One miniseries The Listeners, adapted from the 2021 novel of the same name by Jordan Tannahill.{{cite web |last1=Craig |first1=David |title=The Listeners cast: Full list of actors and characters in BBC drama |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-listeners-cast-bbc/ |website=Radio Times |access-date=9 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127233346/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-listeners-cast-bbc/ |archive-date=27 November 2024 |date=19 November 2024}}