Trained for the theater at University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (BA)
and the University of New Orleans (MFA). He studied at Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art and Royal Shakespeare Company in England, UK. He studied
Juggling and Clown Makeup at Ringlilng Bros. and Barnum and Bailey
Circus. He owned The Rose Dinner Theater in Gretna, LA. Taught
Screenwriting at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. The son of Freida
Bridgeman, a faculty member in the Theater Department at UW-Stevens
Point.
He was a founding faculty member of the New Orleans Center for Creative
Arts (a magnet public high school) where he taught acting, Shakespeare,
voice & speech, theatre history and more from 1975 until his death in
1999.