Career
Later, he wrote a rock opera and worked in theater, both in San Francisco and (after 1979) in New York City. He studied and then taught at New York University, where he wrote his dissertation about The Cockettes and was a mentor to Antony Hegarty, later the leader of Antony and the Johnsons. In 1992 he went to Antioch College in Ohio to start a regional theatre company.
He died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Dayton, Ohio on November 25, 1993.
Worman"s papers, including voluminous research on the history of The Cockettes, served as a basis for a documentary and book about the group. and were later acquired by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
