Gregory Bonsignore

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Gregory Bonsignore (born 1983) is an International Playwright, television program creator, director for theatre, television and film, Producer, novelist, musical theatre librettist & lyricist, screenwriter, comedian and actor.

Bonsignore grew up in Houston, Texas. He has identified as neuroatypical and non-binary. He 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 ,[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]

In 2020, Bonsignore was Deputy Director for Michigan's Get Out the Vote campaign, where Grand Rapids' historically-Republican Kent County flipped Democratic, and again in Georgia for the 2021 Senate Run-Off Election.[7]

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",[8] 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 - voted by fans as their Favorite Episode of the Series[9]

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 .[10] 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.[11]

Television[]

Screenwriting[]

Director[]

  • Squad 85 (2012)

Producer[]

Script coordinator[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2015-02-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ a b http://www.tnny.org/index.php/shows-events/sound-bites-festival/15-sound-bites-3-0/77-gorgonzola[dead link]
  3. ^ "Programme". Archived from the original on 2007-05-14.
  4. ^ "Atomic - The New Yorker". newyorker.com. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
  5. ^ "Photos: GORGONZLA Sweeps Sound Bites 3.0 Festival at Hurley's After-Party".
  6. ^ "Alex Wyse, Lindsay Mendez, Lesli Margherita Set for Reading of the Talented Mr. Ripley Musical". 19 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Gregory Bonsignore".
  8. ^ "Watch Jagged Little Pill Star Elizabeth Stanley on Side by Side by Susan Blackwell".
  9. ^ https://twitter.com/rusepony?lang=en[bare URL]
  10. ^ https://files.blcklst.com/files/2019_black_list_v2.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  11. ^ "Rights Report: Week of August 3, 2020".
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