Alyah Chanelle Scott

Alyah Chanelle Scott is an American actress, director, and producer born on July 3, 1997, in Pearland, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Her mother works as an aerospace engineer at NASA, and her father holds a finance position at a car company. Scott graduated from Glenda Dawson High School in 2015 and subsequently earned a BFA in musical theatre from the University of Michigan.

During her college years, Scott performed in summer productions at Music Theatre Wichita, appearing in shows including The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pippin. In her senior year of college, she was cast as Nabulungi, the female lead in the U.S. national tour of The Book of Mormon. She joined the tour in July 2019 and performed in hundreds of shows before the production was halted in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the television side, Scott took on the role of Whitney Chase in The Sex Lives of College Girls, Mindy Kaling's series that premiered on HBO Max on November 18, 2021. The show was renewed for two additional seasons before its cancellation in 2025. She also starred as Timberly Fox in Steve Levitan's Reboot, which debuted on Hulu on September 20, 2022.

Scott has also established herself as a theatrical producer. As a co-producer on the Runyonland Sussman team for the 2023 Broadway revival of Parade, she won both the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. That same year, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Revival of a Play as a co-producer on the 2023 Broadway revival of Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Jessica Chastain, with the OHenry Theatre Nerd Productions and Runyonland MMP team. Her additional producing credits include the 2023 Broadway revival of The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Gutenberg! The Musical!, and the 2024 revival of The Wiz.

Scott has also worked as a director, helming music videos for two of Reneé Rapp's songs: "Snow Angel," released in June 2023, and "Talk Too Much," released in August 2023.