

Phillips High Schools theatre arts program. Rugerio, would start a bus-n-truck theatre company (Struttin Street Stuff) be instrumental in his high schools (Jones High) induction into the International Thespian Society, Orlando Chapter and help lay the foundation for what would become Dr. Fortune would have it that he along with two friends and his "Drama class" teachers Mr. But dreams of the musical theater (and maybe a few commercials) faded when his mother moved to Orlando, Florida before he could graduate. He attended the High School for the Performing Arts (popularized in Fame (1980)).


He grew up on the streets of the South Bronx in New York City, where he very early decided that dance and the theatre were to be his career. Wesley Trent Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, to Marian (Long), a teacher's assistant, and SMSGT Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer.
