About

Professor Scott is a director, actor, and phoneticist who began his career at CWRU in 2000. He held the Climo Junior Professorship from 2004-2006, until his subsequent promotion to associate professor with tenure. He was promoted to professor in 2013, and from 2015-2023 served as chair of the Department of Theater. While in that position, he oversaw planning, construction, and the opening of the Maltz Center for the Performing Arts for the department. In 2017 he was named the Katharine Bakeless Nason Professor in Theater and Drama.

Prior to his CWRU appointment, Jerrold taught at George Mason University, The Catholic University of America, and The Studio Theatre Conservatory in the Washington, DC, area, and at The Ohio State University in Columbus. He has presented papers and served on panels at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Voice and Speech Trainer’s Association (VASTA), and his articles and exercises have appeared in The Voice and Speech Review and The Complete Voice and Speech Workbook.

As a director, his work includes classical plays, musicals, and contemporary comedies and dramas. 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.

Jerrold is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. In addition to his MFA in Acting, he also completed his doctorate in History, and is currently working on a biography of 19th century American theater critic, soldier, and diplomat Adam Badeau.