Rob Bigalke:
CLASS OF 1968
A.C. Flora High SchoolClass of 1968
Columbia, SC
Cardinal Newman High SchoolClass of 1968
Columbia, SC
Saint Joseph SchoolClass of 1964
Columbia, SC
Saint James SchoolClass of 1961
Savannah, GA
Cardinal Pacelli SchoolClass of 1958
Cincinnati, OH
Rob's Story
Life
Rob Bigalke holds BachelorÂs and MasterÂs degrees from USC. His life has been an intertwining of four threads: acting, broadcasting, theatre and writing. Rob studied writing under the late James Dickey (ÂDeliveranceÂ), media with the late Dr. Don G. Gillis (NBC Symphony Orchestra Composer-in-Residence under Arturo Toscanini), and improv with ÂImprovisation Inc. author Robert Lowe. He was directed by the late Philip Meister (brother of ÂThe Munsters star Al Lewis). Rob has regional and national acting credits, including the National Shakespeare Company and the legendary LaMama ETC in New York, plus improv, childrenÂs theatre, outdoor drama, dinner theatre, musical comedy, commedia dell arte, and two one-man shows since his stage debut in 1969. Rob has been a major market radio personality, and has written two screenplays. Rob has been teaching college broadcasting and Theatre since 1990, managed WBCX at Brenau University, and served as adviser to LSU's student radio station, KLSU. In 2004, Rob left LSU and founded the Southeastern Shakespeare Company, directed "Othello" and produced/directed/stage managed/perfomed in a high school tour of "Romeo & Juliet" in collaboration with the area's suicide prevention center. In 2005, he was appointed Visiting Instructor of Theatre and Theatre Manager at Historically Black Dillard University in New Orleans- just weeks before the city was d...Expand for more
estroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Rob has returned to New Orleans, Dillard has re-opened, and Rob plans to begin his MFA degree at the University of New Orleans in the Fall of 2006.
College
As an undergrad, I majored in Education and English with a Theatre minor. I was the Features Editor for the "Gamecock," News Director for WUSC, and was in over 20 theatre productions before I graduated in '72. I went to back to grad school and got my MA in Theatre in '82. I expect to begin my MFA at the University of New Orleans in the Fall of 2006.
Workplace
I don't have much of a retirement portfolio because life is a buffet and I want to taste everything. That means I've had more jobs than most people my age have had birthdays! I've worked part-time or full-time at over 2 dozen radio stations from the smallest towns to a Top 10 market on the air, in production and in management; taught part-time or full-time at over 20 public and private colleges including 2 Historically Black colleges and an all-women's college; acted/directed/produced/crewed for over 200 theatre productions, and written a couple of films (anybody interested in optioning a feel-good film about a high school baseball team or an action/romance about a small town Texas sheriff?). There's a bunch of other stuff, too. Right now, I'm on the Theatre faculty of Dillard University in New Orleans, working on rebuilding the college and the city.
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