Bruce R. Coleman Dallas theater legend Bruce R. Coleman died Tuesday, Aug. 15, at the age of 62 of an apparent heart attack.
Bruce was born Dec. 3, 1960, at Bethany Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., to Richard Charles Coleman and Carol Joan Askew Coleman.
He attended Frank Rushton School and Rosedale Middle School in Rosedale, Kan., before the family moved to Carrollton. Bruce graduated from Newman Smith High School in Carrollton in 1979 before attending Midwestern State University, where he graduated in 1985 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in theater arts.
Bruce taught theater arts at MacArthur High School in Irving and, periodically, at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts.