Gregory Bonsignore
Gregory Bonsignore (born 1983) is an award-winning International Playwright, television program creator, Producer, novelist, musical theatre librettist & lyricist, screenwriter, director, comedian and actor.
Bonsignore grew up in Houston, Texas, earned his bachelor's degree in Storytelling at New York University, trained at the BBC in London,[1] and is a graduate of The "BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop".[2]
Bonsignore was Playwright in Residence at The Library of Alexandria in Egypt. His play "A Derbyshire Pub Quiz", a collaboration with Cultural Geographer George Jaramillo on Imagined Landscapes, premiered at The Royal Geographical Society's Annual Conference in Exeter, September 2015.,.[3]
Off-Broadway, he wrote the Book and Lyrics for the Musical Atomic,[4] behind the scenes of The Manhattan Project, (World-Premiere in Sydney - Winner Best Musical, Australia), Three (Clurman Theatre, Sam French Prize finalist), premiere at City Theatre's Best American Shorts Festival - Miami,[2] and wrote book/lyrics & directed "Gorgonzola: A Cautionary Sicilian Tale" a new musical, that premiered Off-Broadway in 2016, and won Best Musical, Best Music and Best Lyrics, Best Actor & Best Actress - more than any show in the festival's history.[5] Most recently his Broadway workshop of The Talented Mr. Ripley was selected for development by Stephen Schwartz in his ASCAP Workshop.[6]
Bonsignore created the critically acclaimed cult comedy series Squad 85 (for Executive Producer Justin Lin), Writer/Director of the satirical film "...or Die" (Best Short - HBO Film Festival), credited as a writer for "The Webby Awards" and "Side by Side with Susan Blackwell",[7] worked for three years in NYC as a stand-up, and worked on many TV series, including Transformers: Rescue Bots, Homeland, Lie to Me, Three Rivers, In Plain Sight, Hustle, and a musical episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
His 2019 feature, for Oprah Winfrey's HARPO Films - "Can You Tell Me How" about Sesame Street Creator Joan Ganz Cooney and Jim Henson was selected for The Blacklist (survey).[8] His children's illustrated book, "That's Betty: The Story of Betty White" was sold to Henry Holt and Company for a Fall 2021 release. The book follows a boy tasked with doing a presentation on a trailblazing woman, and for him, there's only one choice: Betty White. He gets a helping hand from a certain pioneer and icon who happens to be in the library on the same day.[9]
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b http://www.tnny.org/index.php/shows-events/sound-bites-festival/15-sound-bites-3-0/77-gorgonzola
- ^ http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Programme/Programme.htm
- ^ "Atomic - The New Yorker". newyorker.com. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
- ^ http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-GORGONZLA-Sweeps-Sound-Bites-30-Festival-at-Hurleys-After-Party-20160119
- ^ http://www.playbill.com/article/alex-wyse-lindsay-mendez-lesli-margherita-set-for-reading-of-the-talented-mr-ripley-musical
- ^ http://www.broadway.com/videos/series/side-by-side-by-susan-blackwell
- ^ https://files.blcklst.com/files/2019_black_list_v2.pdf
- ^ https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/84019-rights-report-week-of-august-3-2020.html
- 1983 births
- Living people
- American musical theatre librettists
- American musical theatre lyricists
- 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
- Television show creators
- American writers of Italian descent
- American people of Sicilian descent
- Gay writers
- LGBT screenwriters
- LGBT comedians
- Eagle Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)
- American male dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century screenwriters