Playwright and Dramaturg
Scout Rexe (they/she) is a playwright and dramaturg. While their writing deals with heavy themes, it’s often playful and funny. Much of their work centers around young characters navigating queer and trans identities. Scout aspires to make work that’s as complex as the communities it’s in dialogue with—work that deepens or expands our relationship to who we are and the world we live in.
Scout is invested in dramaturgy as an artistic process, supporting new play development with both emerging and established artists, and working across disciplines to foster innovative creation.
Scout holds a BA in Creative Writing from Concordia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She is currently a part of the Prairie Theatre Exchange Playwrights Unit and the Imago Creators’ Circle.
Upcoming World Premiere
Cult Play debuts with Imago Theatre (Fall 2025) before making its way to Neptune Theatre (Winter 2026).
Queer, enticingly playful and unapologetically bold, Cult Play is a multimedia solo show that explores the complex interplay of desire and deception, complicity and choice.
Cult Play was developed with the support of Playwrights' Workshop Montréal, including through the Gros Morne Playwrights' Residency in collaboration with le Centre des auteurs dramatiques and Artistic Fraud. Dramaturg Fatma Sarah Elkashef and digital dramaturgs Emily Soussana and Andrew Scriver of potatoCakes_digital played an instrumental role in the creation of this work. Their contributions were guided by the Digital Dramaturgy Integration Strategy and the Digital Dramaturgy Initiative, co-imagined by Playwrights' Workshop Montréal, Manitoba Association of Playwrights, Playwrights Theatre Centre, and the Blyth Festival. Cult Play has also been supported through Brian Drader, Thomas Morgan Jones, and the Manitoba Association of Playwrights-Prairie Theatre Exchange Playwrights Unit, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Imago Creators’ Circle.
Current Projects
O Death—a play with music—is a nuanced exploration of trans and queer identity, cancel culture, and the legacy of our cultural icons.
Supported by: Playwrights Workshop Montreal and dramaturgs Fatma Sarah Elkashef and Elio Zarrillo. Supported by the Manitoba Arts Council, The Riding Mountain National Park Residency, as a Collective in Residence at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, by Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Nightwood Theatre through the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators, and by the Toronto Arts Council Playwrights Program.