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Born and educated in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bruce was president of his high school student body and then won an appointment to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. After graduation, he sailed five times around the world as a ship’s officer and is a Korean Conflict veteran. At UCLA he was awarded a Taussig Fellowship, spending a year at the Free University of Berlin studying modern German theater. The actor Charles Laughton hired him to cover the research for his anthology The Fabulous Country for which Bruce received Laughton’s special dedication. Film director Otto Preminger cast him as Washington Correspondent in his star-studded Advise and Consent. Returning to UCLA Bruce earned a master’s in playwriting and a National Defense and Education Act fellowship for his PhD, which he received with distinction for research. As graduate advisor, he taught and directed theater at American University in Washington, D.C.
Bruce is the author of two novels, Murder Cum Laude and Tomorrow to Fresh Woods, a history, Hitler’s Theater: Art as Propaganda, a manual for teaching acting, PromptBook, and a children’s book, Eight Little Candles Plus One: A Hanukkah Tale. His produced plays include: First Day in an Actor’s Life and Last Day in an Actor’s Life, both based on the life of Charles Laughton, the tragedy Saul, about the maligned first king of Israel, The Silent Prince that treats Count von Stauffenberg’s attempt on Hitler’s life and Witch Hammer: Malleus Maleficarum, the Vatican’s proclamation that pits genuine love against fears of impotence.
Now living in Laguna Woods, California with his wife, Sabra, Bruce has just published a second edition of Hitler’s Theater, as an Amazon Kindle Direct Publication, and he continues to write and publish.
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