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WALLACE
BRIDGES
Professor
of Theatre Arts
Office: 104 Quirk Building
Phone: 734.487.0535
Email: wbridges@emich.edu
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Degrees
MFA—Theatre (Directing), Western Illinois University, 1992
BA—Speech/Drama, Teacher Certification, Cameron University,
1983
Professional Associations/Memberships
Actors' Equity Association
Screen Actors Guild
Representative courses taught
CTAR 150: Introduction to Theatre
CTAR 150: Introduction to Theatre (online)
CTAR 151: African American Theatre
CTAR 151: African American Theatre (online)
CTAR 158: Fundamentals of Acting
CTAR 155: Producing Theatre
CTAR 355: Play Direction
Advising
Theatre Arts, BA—major and minor
Biography
Professor Bridges has been teaching theatre at Eastern Michigan
University since 1992. In
addition to teaching and advising undergraduate students at EMU,
he also directs having directed
over 20 plays there. Some of his varied directing credits at
EMU include The Good Person of
Setzuan, Ain't Misbehavin', In the Blood, and Intimate Apparel.
His professional directing credits
include productions at the Lawton Community Theatre in Oklahoma,
and the University of
Michigan-Flint. He also directed the original Christian musical,
Boulder Faith with the
Tecumseh Players, Tecumseh, MI. 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
Black Rep in St. Louis, 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 has
appeared in several feature films including Trust and Flipped.
He stars in the independent film,
Shooters: Get the Picture, and appeared 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.
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