Bruce Bonafede is an American playwright.[1][2][3][4][5] He is a Lifetime Member of the Dramatists Guild.
Bonafede's first produced play, Advice to the Players, is a drama that studies the relationship between art and politics.[2][3][4][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] The play's inspiration was an incident at the 1981 International Theater Festival in Baltimore, where two acclaimed South African actors were caught up in an international boycott of South Africa's apartheid policies.[2][3][4][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] The play was first produced as part of Actors Theatre of Louisville's "Shorts" Festival in November 1984, the original production starred Delroy Lindo and Joe Morton.[2][4][8][9][13] The play was produced again at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival for New American Plays in April 1985, and won the Heideman Award as best one-act play of the festival.[1][4][6][14] Following the production at Actors Theatre of Louisville, a 90-minute version without intermission was produced at the Philadelphia Festival of New Plays in 1986.[2][4][6] Advice to the Players was published in Literary Cavalcade, a Scholastic magazine, and the anthology Best Short Plays-1986.[15][16] The 90-minute version of the play was published by Samuel French in 2015.[14]
Ghostwriting edit
Bonafede is a contributor and editor for the business book Manager's Guide to Crisis Management (ISBN 0071769498) by Jonathan Bernstein (Briefcase Books Series), published in 2011.[17]
Other writing projects remain confidential due to contractual agreements.
Awards edit
Advice to the Players, his first produced play, won the Heideman Award at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1985.[1][4][6][14]
Published works edit
- Advice to the Players (1985) (ISBN 0573620318)
- Nobody Knows My Name by Anonymous (2013) (ISBN 1626522650)
References edit
- ^ a b c "Bruce Bonafede". Samuel French. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e Mel Gussow (April 27, 1986). "Art And Politics In Bonafede's 'Advice'". The New York Times. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c Edwin Wilson (April 5, 1985). "Theater: Wild Turkeys". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ a b c d e f g William B. Collins (April 14, 1986). "Mixing Art And Politics". Philly. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ "Bruce Bonafede". Amazon. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e William B. Collins (April 18, 1986). "New-play Festival Examines Apartheid". Philly. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ a b Richard Christiansen (April 27, 1988). "2 Plays Explore South Africa's Underside". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c B A Young (March 28, 1985). "Arts: Review of Humana Drama Festivalin Louisville, Kentucky". Financial Times.
- ^ a b c Mel Gussow (March 28, 1985). "Critic's Notebook; In New Plays, Mystical Visions And Broken Glass". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Megan Rosenfeld (December 3, 1984). "Success Story". The Washington Post.
- ^ a b Hap Erstein (June 28, 1990). "New troupe springs to life with local playwright fest". "The Washington Times.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b Ray Loynd (May 5, 1989). "'Advice to Players' at the Shepard; 'Very Nearly Pinter' and 'Marmots' at Actors Alley; 'Kathe Kollwitz' in Ocean Park; 'The Eye of the Beholder' at Flight; 'Perpetual Care' at Cast". "L.A. Times. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ Bonafede, Bruce (1985). Advice to the Players: A Play in One Act. Samuel French. ISBN 9780573620317. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Bruce Bonafede". Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ The Best Short Plays 1986. Hal Leonard Corporation. 1986. ISBN 9780936839134. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ "Bruce Bonafede: "Advice to the Players"". Literary Cavalcade by Scholastic. April 1986.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Jonathan Bernstein (October 17, 2011). Manager's Guide to Crisis Management. McGraw Hill Professional. ISBN 9780071776134. Retrieved October 15, 2013.