User:Chinabird/Dan Bonnell

Dan Bonnell is an award winning American theatre director and educator. Awards that he and his productions have received include the NAACP Directing Award, and the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Theater in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Tom McCullough Award for Best Revival in 2005, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Directing in 2007 , and the LA Weekly Directing Award. He has been nominated for the Los Angeles Ovation Award and for Theater Communications Group’s “Alan Schneider Award.” Prior to LA, Dan was a Company Director at Circle Repertory Company in New York City and staged plays for notable institutions across the country – including Long Wharf, the Asolo, Atlanta’s Alliance Theater, and Pioneer Theater Company, and internationally at The Bronfman Center in Montreal and Theatre Les Dechargeurs in Paris. He served as the Artistic Director at Arcade, a workspace for theatre and media, from 1995 to 2001 (with Michael Patrick King), and was the Co-Artistic Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre - LA from 2006 to 2008. He has taught at Ensemble Studio Theatre Institute in NYC, USC, UCLA, Denison University, Cypress College, and is currently a Lecturer in Performance at UC Riverside.