Tom Scholte

Tom Scholte is a Canadian actor and academic.[1] He is most noted for his performances in the film Last Wedding, for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2002[2] and a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2001,[3] and The Dick Knost Show, for which he received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2013.[4]

He has also appeared in the films Live Bait, Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure, No More Monkeys Jumpin' on the Bed, Lunch with Charles, Moving Malcolm, See Grace Fly, Fathers & Sons, Sisters & Brothers and Kingsway, and the television series The X-Files, Da Vinci's Inquest, and Cold Squad.

He was a cofounder of the Neworld Theatre Company in Vancouver, British Columbia,[5] is a two-time Jessie Richardson Award nominee for his stage performances, and is a professor in the department of theatre and film at the University of British Columbia.[1]

Scholte's academic work is in the intersection of theatre studies and cybernetics. In 2021, Scholte became Vice-President of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)[6] Scholte is a presenter on the 'Systems and Cybernetics' podcast of the New Books Network.[7]

  1. ^ a b Lynn Mitges, "Students acting like they should; Program at UBC gives them the tools to take into the real world". The Province, January 10, 2008.
  2. ^ Michael Posner, "Atanarjuat, War Bride lead Genie list". The Globe and Mail, December 13, 2001.
  3. ^ Katherine Monk, "Much more to the year in film than Harry Potter and hobbits". Vancouver Sun, January 31, 2002.
  4. ^ "And the 2014 VFCC nominees are...". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2013.
  5. ^ "Neworld Theatre". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, October 26, 2020.
  6. ^ "ASC Executive Board - American Society for Cybernetics".
  7. ^ "NBN Home".