Faculty
Dan Bonnell
Lecturer
Performance
B.A., Indiana University, Bloomington
E-mail: thea160@ucr.edu
Office: INTS 2122
Phone: 951-827-7044
Mr. Bonnell is currently Co-Artistic Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre–LA and a visiting assistant professor in the School of Theatre, Film and Television at UCLA. He is happy to return to UCR where he has directed A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Hero Inside, and The Bacciarelli Issue. His work has been seen in Los Angeles at Pacific Resident Theatre (Happy End - Best Revival Award- LA Drama Critic’’s Circle 2006), the Matrix, the Met, Cornerstone, [Inside] @ The Ford, ASK Theater Projects, Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA (Stage Directions, And Still the Dogs), Highways, Moving Arts, HBO Workspace and Arcade, where he was the Artistic Director from 1995-2001. His critically acclaimed production of Bash at the Odyssey (2007 LA Weekly Directing Award nomination) moved to Theatre Les Decharguers in Paris, France for a successful five week run. Mr. Bonnell has been honored with the LA Weekly Directing Award, the NAACP Directing Award and the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Theater in Los Angeles. He was nominated, in 2003, for Theater Communications Group “Alan Schneider Award”. Prior to LA, Dan was a Resident Director at Circle Rep in New York City and staged plays for notable companies across the country including: Long Wharf, the Asolo, Atlanta’’s Alliance Theater, Pioneer Theater Company, and the Bronfman Center in Montreal.