Gregory Bonsignore

Gregory Bonsignore (born 1983) is an award-winning International Playwright, television program creator, musical theatre librettist & lyricist, screenwriter, director and actor.

Bonsignore grew up in Houston, Texas, 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, Australia), "Raul Julia is Dead. He's Been Dead" (Sonnet Rep), 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]

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),^[6] credited as a writer for "The Webby Awards" and "Side by Side with Susan Blackwell",^[7] 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.^[8]

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