Dennis Scott (16 December 1939 – 21 February 1991) was a Jamaican poet, playwright, actor (best known for appearances on The Cosby Show) and dancer.
He returned to teach at Jamaica College, and then became director of the School of Drama at the Cultural Training Centre in Kingston.
[1] Scott taught at the Yale School of Drama, and was head of the Directing program from 1986 until his death, which occurred in New Haven, Connecticut, at the age of 51.
Scott was one of the most significant poets writing in the early post-independence period in Jamaica, and his first published collection, Uncle Time (1973), for which he won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, is marked by an effective literary use of the vernacular, or "nation language".
[citation needed] Scott's dramatic work is acknowledged as a major influence on the direction of Caribbean theatre.