Gregory Bonsignore
Gregory Bonsignore (born 1983) is an International playwright, television program creator, director for theatre, television and film, producer, novelist, musical theatre librettist and lyricist, screenwriter, comedian and actor.
Life and career
[edit]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 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]
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 The Blacklist (survey).[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
[edit]Screenwriting
[edit]- Lie to Me (2010)
- Squad 85 (2012)
- Transformers: Rescue Bots (2015–2016)
- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2018)
Director
[edit]- Squad 85 (2012)
Producer
[edit]- Chasing Farrah (2005): production coordinator
- Hustle (2007): production assistant
- Squad 85 (2012)
Script coordinator
[edit]- In Plain Sight (2009)
- Three Rivers (2009–2010)
- Lie to Me (2010–2011)
- Bunheads (2013)
- Homeland (2013)
References
[edit]- ^ "Scripted Whim". Archived from the original on 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
- ^ a b http://www.tnny.org/index.php/shows-events/sound-bites-festival/15-sound-bites-3-0/77-gorgonzola [dead link]
- ^ "Programme". Archived from the original on 2007-05-14.
- ^ "Atomic". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
- ^ "Photos: GORGONZLA Sweeps Sound Bites 3.0 Festival at Hurley's After-Party".
- ^ "Alex Wyse, Lindsay Mendez, Lesli Margherita Set for Reading of the Talented Mr. Ripley Musical". 19 May 2017.
- ^ "Gregory Bonsignore". IMDb.
- ^ "Watch Jagged Little Pill Star Elizabeth Stanley on Side By Side By Susan Blackwell". Broadway.com. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ "@rusepony" on Twitter
- ^ "In the beginning was the word" (PDF). blcklst.com. 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ "Rights Report: Week of August 3, 2020". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- 1983 births
- 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century American screenwriters
- American people of Italian descent
- American gay actors
- American gay writers
- American LGBTQ comedians
- American LGBTQ screenwriters
- American male dramatists and playwrights
- American musical theatre librettists
- American musical theatre lyricists
- American non-binary actors
- American non-binary writers
- American writers of Italian descent
- Comedians from Houston
- Gay comedians
- LGBTQ lyricists
- LGBTQ people from Texas
- Living people
- Non-binary comedians
- Non-binary gay people
- Television show creators