Tarra riggs biography of william

"Don''t look like they did much of a good job."

The audience laughter that followed her delivery of that line was all actor Tarra Riggs needed to hear.

Just two years ago, Riggs got involved in community theater groups like The Center Players, where she delivered that laughter-producing first line in "Rehearsal for Murder." Riggs graduated from Jackson State University with a degree in business administration and a minor in education, only because that's what her mom told her to do.

"I took drama classes on the side without her knowing," she says.

Growing up as a dancer in Maywood, Ill., Riggs was used to performing in front of crowds with dance troupes.

"I was always on somebody's stage," she says.

Even though she enjoyed the drama classes in college, Riggs still had some exploring to do before she'd find her way back to that slice of her soul that loved the limelight so much.

After finishing college in 1994, Riggs moved to Atlanta on the advice of a girlfriend that it was "th