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 and lyricist, screenwriter, comedian and actor.

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Life and career

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]

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  2. 1 2 http://www.tnny.org/index.php/shows-events/sound-bites-festival/15-sound-bites-3-0/77-gorgonzola [ dead link ]
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  4. ↑ "Atomic". The New Yorker. 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". IMDb.
  8. ↑ "Watch Jagged Little Pill Star Elizabeth Stanley on Side By Side By Susan Blackwell". Broadway.com. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
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