Richard Oxman

Richard Oxman’s complex biographical journeys explain his uncanny ability to touch so many subjects. Born 9/21/42, Newark, NJ...reared in the Seth Boyden Housing Projects (as only child, brother having died)...growing up w Larry ("Tie a Yellow Ribbon") Brown, recording R&R out of Harlem on Fury Records. Jimmy Dean nutcase. Finagling/sick mom lived in hospital, postal supervisor dad manipulated records to make Weequahic HS till ’60 & working w postal service underaged possible; Univ. of Wisc.-Madison ’61...leading to working w postal service underaged. Rutgers Univ.-Newark B.A. (’63-’64)...where he studied w Lester Moore (Dramatic Art & Speech) & George Weber (Main Mentor, World’s Expert in Chinese Bronzes of the Late Chou Period). Summer stock at The Parkway Playhouse w own NC radio show in ’63...in Tom Wolfe country. College Prof from 21 to 31 at Rutgers, LIU, NY Institute of Technology, ETC. Theatre, Comparative Lit, Cinema History, ESL, ETC. M.A. fr Teachers College, Columbia Univ., Ed.D work at NYU, ETC. Teaching worldwide (all levels) three decades...Italy, Japan, ETC. Worked construction, NYC taxi, publishing, and all kinds of sales, incl. "art" on Maui. Journalist/Columnist on the Russian River (2 newspapers). Married 3X, children: NYC Noelle 34, Maui Aja 21 and Marcel 5 in Los Gatos, CA w current Sylvie-family. Cleared of bank robbery, absconding w company funds, bookmaking, deadbeat dadism ETC. (which is why he doesn’t believe in bios) One wife a heroin addict, one a Jewish Princess. In Coppola film, Beckett set, Tennessee Williams’ hotel, Arthur & Henry Miller digs, Watts’ Houseboat, Joe Strummer’s dreams, Stokely’s Howard, Ali & Kid Gavilan training camps AND Glenda Jackson’s dressing room plus... Former lives include frenchpaintbox.com theatre experiences in Paris and onedancesummit.org in Santa Cruz. Currently supporting Sylvie’s Interior Design business, homeschooling Marcello, and writing...while trying to help everyone head off ecocide/genocide, ETC. Shhh...there was impersonating an Israeli for almost two years, getting him a degree at Columbia Univ., while running one of the first U.S. term paper businesses. Oh yes, he was also a Manager of a Massage Parlor on the Mezzanine Floor of what used to be Grand Central Station in New York. It was called "Relaxation Plus," but Richard hasn’t been relaxed since long before that...euphemism.