Course Description

Instructor: Bill Nigut

As the Alliance Theatre prepares to debut a production of "Fiddler on the Roof" in collaboration with the Atlanta Opera, Bill Nigut shares remarkable stories of how Fiddler was almost stopped dead in its tracks before reaching the stage.

Bio: Bill has been best known for his career as an Atlanta television and radio political analyst and reporter. But it is less known that he studied acting and theater history at one of the most prestigious theater colleges in the country - the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago. He founded his own theater company in his hometown of Chicago, studied improvisation at Second City, and was a member of a Chicago improvisation troupe developed by the improvisation guru Del Close. Bill saw his first Broadway musical - the original production of The Sound of Music starring Mary Martin - when he was 12 years old - and has been passionate about musicals and straight plays ever since.