[2] Her grandmother, Miriam's daughter, was trade unionist and anti-abortion campaigner Connie Purdue.

[2] Scott's parents were involved in theatre, and her mother in local politics too, and as a teenager Scott joined Auckland Youth Theatre, run by Mark Wright, Alison Wall, Christian Penny and Anna Marbrook.

[2] Scott took the cast of Massive's production of The Sons of Charlie Paora to London and Paris.

[4] Scott has directed for television and film, and was director of the soap opera Shortland Street for ten years, beginning in the late 1990s.

[4] In the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to theatre.