Jerome

JEROME ST. JEROME
actor/comic/booming basso
Jerome's favorite roles include Kris Kringle in Here’s Love, {Miracle on 34th St.} Max Detweiler in
The Sound of Music and Teddy Brewster & Officer Patrick Brophy in Arsenic & Old Lace among others.
He has performed in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of
Being Earnest, portrayed multiple roles in Kurt Weill’s acclaimed Threepenny Opera and in 2007 opened the
Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge as Bob Ewell in Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird. In addition,
Jerome almost always garners a speaking role in musical theatre and has designed the sound and
sound effects for countless productions. He recorded as 'period' radio announcers in Auntie Mame and
provided the voice of WGN legend Pierre Andre and the Goldblatt's P.A. announcer in A Christmas Story
for Wheaton Drama; plus he supplied the Voice of God and sound effects for the musical Sweet Charity
to name a few. Jerome’s 25 years on Chicago’s Jazz, Blues and radio scene as a harmonica player, scat
singer, lecturer and program host chronicled Chicago’s rich cultural contribution to music history.
In LA/Hollywood, he has been a part of 7 theatrical productions and recently completed a PSA for MTV
and voiced four characters for a feature film animate besides other on-camera roles. His booming basso,
occasional quirky characterizations and adept comedic sense add invaluably to each successive production
he is awarded. Jerome is an accomplished harmonica player and operates his own home-based VO studio.
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Reviews:
Trolls Stole The North Pole
“… and Jerome St. Jerome, who surprises the audience with his singing talent after
so thoroughly convincing us he is just a lowly, bumbling troll.”
by Corina Roberts
Freelance Writer/Photographer
E: [email protected]
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/corinaroberts1
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Highclimber – Feature Animate 2011
VO: Ed Burlow, auctioneer/Sullivan/Ted the Bouncer/Banker
“… you are a very talented voice actor, Jerome! You were a fantastic addition to our
group! I’ll definitely keep you in mind for future projects…”
Screenwriter/Producer
Rocky Hessler
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http://www.angelostheplay.com
“Each actor plays a caricature of a particular ethnicity or personality and yet they are
all frighteningly familiar. Kelly 'the Scalp,' {Jerome St. Jerome} for example,
reminded me of my father’s childhood buddy, in both speech and stature, so that I
adored him…”
by Jenny Platt
http://www.socal.com/6646/172/The+Funniest+Hold-
Up+You%e2%80%99ll+Ever+Witness.html
“Jerome St. Jerome as Kelly 'the Scalp' was fantastic and in the moment from
beginning to end. What a wonderful performance from an actor who listens and
reacts with the precision of a skilled musician.”
by Joe Straw
http://joestraw9.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html
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Chicago Reader: June 30, 2005
Wherefore Art Thou Romeo: A New Play (2005)
By Kelly Kleiman
… Jerome St. Jerome provides the only pleasurable moment, a blues harmonica solo
with no relation to anything else. Through 7/16/05: Thu-Sat 8 PM. No Social Life
Theatre Company, 3273 W. Armitage, Chicago, IL
312-316-8713. $12.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/wherefore-art-thou-romeo-a-newplay/
Content?oid=919270&mode=print
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As a harmonica player and vocalist, Jerome has played on the bandstand with so
many blues legends in Chicago he has lost count. Upon graduating high school,
Jerome went almost immediately to the South Side of Chicago to the world-renown
Theresa’s Blues Lounge at 4801 South Indiana (48th & Indiana) to find one of his
living mentors, Jr. Wells. He played with Sammy Lawhorn, Louis Myers, Pinetop
Perkins, Sunnyland Slim, Wayne Bennett, Lonnie Brooks, Buddy Guy and so many
more. He started his own band Jerome & the Businessmen after a nearly year-long
stint with J.W. Williams & the Chi-town Hustlers in 1983 at 22nd & Michigan under
the shadow of the hotel that made Al Capone famous, the Lexington Hotel, where
Geraldo Rivera hosted a television special broadcasting the opening of Al Capone’s
vintage vault, which, not surprisingly, turned up empty. He formed Jerome and the
Businessmen with trombonist and recording artist Bill McFarland in 1984 who had
worked extensively with Otis Clay, Lonnie Brooks and Albert Collins, among many
others. The mid to late 80’s brought him to radio and parlayed his extensive
knowledge of the recorded history of Jazz and Blues, especially the Chess era of the
50’s to several radio stations. He also formed a country blues duet with James
Conway, who is now nationally known as a traditional Irish musician who excels at
guitar, harmonica and tin whistle. They performed extensively in Chicago and
started a weekly series on WDCB in Glen Ellyn, Illinois on Jerome’s radio program,
The Blues Edition. They also made live appearances On Artistic License with Neil
Tesser on NPR and Jazz station WBEZ and on WCBR in Arlington Heights. A
disciple of the great Blues Harmonica Artists of the 20th Century, he would count
Sonny Terry, Big Walter Horton, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Little Walter, James
Cotton, Jr. Wells, Paul Butterfield and Sugar Blue as his primary influences but not
necessarily in that order. But Jerome has been influenced by literally every player of
the instrument he has heard or encountered from the Harmonicats, Larry Adler and
country-western legend Charlie McCoy to mention a few. Jerome plays Hohner
harmonicas exclusively, especially the Marine Band and plays the Chromatic
harmonica in all twelve keys. He can play all styles, including some Jazz that he has
studied enough to compose original Jazz works and he is a respectable scat singer,
also, practiced in the art of mouth rhythm. He had taught privately for years at the
Old Town School of Folk Music and Discovery Center, both while in Chicago. Film,
Television and the weather brought him to Hollywood, in that order, and he’s here to
stay. Though not a world-class vocalist, Jerome was recognized for his strong vocals
as a Blues singer and heavy-tone as a harmonica player. He most often utilizes the
tongue-block method that he picked up early on from the classic recordings of
probably his biggest influence, Big Walter Horton.