User:Bondavid1/Bonnie Nelson Schwartz

Bonnie Nelson Schwartz is a producer of theatre, film and television. She has more than 100 plays, films, television programs, and concerts in Washington, DC, New York and London to her credit. On Broadway, she co-produced Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare, Pack of Lies with Rosemary Harris and Patrick McGoohan, Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's State Fair with The Theatre Guild. Her Off-Broadway credits include Dylan Thomas: Return Journey, directed by Anthony Hopkins. Among her many concert productions are Give My Regards to Broadway: A Salute to 125 Years of Musical Theater at Carnegie Hall, the London production of Panbeaters, An Irish Valentine starring Daniel Day Lewis, ADL: In Concert Against Hate with the National Symphony Orchestra, the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration, and the Duke Ellington:  90th Birthday Celebration at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts where she has produced more than 25 concerts.

Ms. Schwartz is the founder and original producer of Washington, DC's Helen Hayes Awards. She was a producer for the Closing Ceremonies of the Barcelona Olympic Games, broadcast on NBC, and created and produced The Olympic Woman, a multi-media exhibition for the Atlanta Olympic Games.

Recent productions include the films Changing Lives in South Africa featuring Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki; ADL: In Concert Against Hate, featuring the casts of HBO’s The Wire and TNT’s Madmen with the National Symphony Orchestra; and The Washington, DC Choral Arts Society’s 20th Annual Martin Luther King Tribute Concert'' featuring Ben Vereen at the John F. Kennedy Center. Ms. Schwartz is a Founder and Executive Producer for the bi-annual International Festival of Art and Technology at Lake Chautauqua, New York. She is currently working on the feature film, Invitation to Valhalla. Her documentary, Studs Terkel: Listening to America recently aired on HBO.