Dudley Riggs is a fifth generation member of a distinguished show business family, and has worked variously (since the age of 5) as a circus aerialist, movie actor, vaudevillian, comedian, writer and stage director.

Riggs has attended the University of Chicago, the University of Tulsa at Oklahoma, the University of the Philippines in Manila, Mankato State Teacher's College (teaching certificate) and the University of Minnesota (Bachelor of Science with emphasis on Theater Education). His continuing education includes being accepted into the Harvard University Writing Program in 1996.

In addition to receiving a Kudo Award from the Twin Cities theater critics, Riggs received the Urban Guerrilla Award and the Charlie Award from the National Association of Comedy Arts. After selling the Brave New Workshop in 1997, Dudley Riggs started his third career as a writer. He is currently working on several books and movie screenplays.