John Scoullar began his performing career at the age of 12 with the American Tour of the Bolshoi Ballet and made his Broadway debut in Over, Here with the Andrew Sisters. Original productions of King of Hearts, Leonard Bernstein's Candide and Truckload followed. Off-Broadway credits include Hot L Baltimore, , The Crazy Locomotive and The Red Blue Grass Western Flyer Show. With playwright Joseph Kavanagh he wrote at Playwright's Horizon, Canticle at Hartman Conservatory Theatre, the musical The Legend of Finn McCool and Hello, Dears in which he starred in at The Players Theatre. He died in 2011 following a battle with skin cancer. He was 61.