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WALLACE
BRIDGES
Professor
Office: 104 Quirk Building
Phone: 734.487.0535
Email: wbridges@emich.edu
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Professor Bridges has been teaching theatre at Eastern Michigan
University since 1992. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Speech and Drama from Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma,
and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre (Directing) from
Western Illinois University in Macomb. He teaches acting, African
American theatre, introduction to theatre, and play direction
to undergraduate students, and has designed and teaches courses
online.
In addition to teaching and advising undergraduate students
at Eastern Michigan University, Bridges directs at EMU annually,
directing over 20 plays there. Some of his directing credits
at EMU include The Good Person of Setzuan, Ain't
Misbehavin',
In the Blood, and Oedipus the
King. His professional directing
credits include productions at the Lawton Community Theatre in
Oklahoma, and the University of Michigan-Flint. Bridges co-wrote
and co-directed an original play with music, Soaring
on Black Wings, with EMU students, faculty and staff in collaboration
with Tony and Emmy award-winner and television and film actor,
Ben Vereen.
Bridges has also acted professionally onstage at The Purple
Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Michigan and at the St. Louis
Black Repertory Company in Missouri. He created the role of Lenny
in the Purple Rose Theatre Company world premiere of Mitch Albom's
play, Duck Hunter Shoots Angel. Bridges is a member of Actors'
Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild, and appears in several
2009/2010-release feature films including Conviction with Hillary
Swank, Trust with Clive Owen, and Flipped directed by Rob Reiner.
He stars in the independent film, Shooters:
Get the Picture,
and also appears in the HBO television series, Hung.
Bridges founded the Idlewild Theatre Company in 2004, which
has a mission to produce Afrocentric theatre in historic Idlewild,
Michigan each summer. The Idlewild Theatre Company involves local
residents and students with theatre workshops, internships, and
stage acting.
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