Reginald Bruce is a west coast playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, actor, musician and author who have appeared in many urban American dramas. The Oklahoma City native portrayed the hard-boiled street thug Murph, the role Al Pacino created on Off-Broadway in the L.A. Premiere of Israel Horovitz's internationally celebrated one-act The Indian Wants the Bronx. Bruce, who is a Method-trained actor, spent much of his early career with famed acting coach Lee Strasberg. Bruce briefly attended the UCLA Theater School under the direction of Tom Wheatley and later joined the Actors Studio Writers Directors Unit under the direction Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond, The Cincinnati Kid, ) and award-winning playwright (Orphans,) Lyle Kessler. However, …show more content…
Bruce did, his first play, Games Of The Empire was produced a short time later and Bruce went on to write a number of plays including In Big East, directed by Obie-winning director Hugh Gittens. Bruce went on to write several plays and screenplays while working as an actor. Bruce with his writing partner Cyril O'Reilly, also an actor/writer, optioned screenplays to producers such as Ed Pressman, the producer of (Wall Street, American Psycho, Das Boot and Thank You For Smoking,) Paramount Pictures, Frank Mancuso Jr.’s Hometown Pictures, producer of [Ronin, Friday The 13th, Internal Affairs and Species,) Laurence Taubman's Cin City Pictures, Taft/Bagel Entertainment and Jeremiah S. Chechik's Tin Horn Productions, director/producer of (The Bronx Is Burning, Beenie & Joon, and The Avengers.) Bruce went on to option screenplays to Propaganda Films, Michael Sheehy's Sheehy Films, Dr. Dre, producer of [Straight Out Of Compton,.] and much more. Reggie Bruce has worked as an actor with such notable talent as Foster Woods, Ving Rhames, Natasha Richardson, Loretta Devine, Tony Todd and Taxi Driver and "Raging Bull" writer, director Paul