About

Professor Scott is a director, actor, and phoneticist who began his career at CWRU in 2000 as a visiting artist. In July 2000 he was appointed assistant professor of Theater. He held the Climo Junior Professorship from 2004-2006, until his subsequent promotion to associate professor with tenure. In 2013, he was promoted to professor, and in 2015 was named chair of the Department of Theater and served until 2023. In 2017 he was named the Katharine Bakeless Nason Professor in Theater and Drama.

Prior to his CWRU appointments, he was a lecturer at The Catholic University of America and an instructor in the Acting Conservatory of The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. He has also held faculty appointments at The Ohio State University and George Mason University. As a scholar, he has presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Voice and Speech Trainer’s Association (VASTA), and his articles have appeared in The Voice and Speech Review and The Complete Voice and Speech Workbook.

As a director, his work is wide-ranging, and includes classical plays, musicals, and contemporary comedies and dramas. Jerrold is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC). Favorite directing credits include Arcadia, Hay Fever, The Philadelphia Story, Present Laughter, Heartbreak House, The Rocky Horror Show, The Glass Menagerie, and The Importance of Being Earnest. He also works as a speech, text and dialect coach, and served as the resident dialect coach at Cleveland Play House for over a decade. He is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and continues to be active in commercial performance/voice-over work. He is currently working on a biography of 19th century American theater critic, soldier, and diplomat Adam Badeau