Riggs, Dudley. Flying Funny: My Life Without a Net. United States, University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
"So far I've had three show business careers. In my adult life, I produced and directed more than 250 original live theatrical productions at Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop. Known as the nation's oldest ongoing satirical comedy theater, Brave New Workshop still today presents social and political satire in revue format year-round. Many of America's greatest comedy artists, writers, actors, and producers learned the art of improvisation on my stage before going on to fame and fortune.
That list is long. It includes Louie Anderson, Avner the Eccentric, Del Close, Mo Collins, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Franken & Davis, Lorna Landvik, Carl Lumbly, Peter MacNicol, Pat Proft, Penn & Teller, Stevie Ray, Sue Scott, Rich Sommer, Nancy Steen, Steven Schaubel, Faith Sullivan, Peter Tolan, Linda Wallem, and Lizz Winstead. The theater-now known as the Brave New Workshop Comedy Theater-continues to make me proud. But these years spent producing and directing at the Brave New Workshop were actually my third career.
My first career was as a child star in vaudeville, and my second was as a fearless circus flyer. I performed for the Russell Brothers Circus, the Blackpool Tower Circus (England), Cirko Grande (Havana, Cuba), the Al G. Kelly & Miller Brothers Circus (USA), Stevens Brothers Circus (USA), the Dolly Ja-cobs Circus (Canada and Alaska), the E. K. Fernandez All-American Circus (Japan), and the Grande Cirko Americano (Puerto Rico). In vaudeville, I performed on the Barnes and Caruthers, Shubert, and Sacco entertainment circuits, throughout the United States."
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