Jo Bonney

Personal Information
Jo Bonney: Christopher Shinn's On the Mountain (Playwrights Horizons); Neil LaBute's Fat Pig (MCC); Lisa Loomer’s Living Out (Second Stage); Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics (Arena Stage, Washington,DC); Universes’Slanguage (New York Theater Workshop/ Mark Taper Forum);Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July (Signature Theatre NYC) (Lucille Lortel Award); Jose Rivera’s Adoration of the Old Woman (La Jolla Playhouse) and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (The Public Theater); Eric Bogosian’s Humpty Dumpty (McCarter Theater), subUrbia (Studio Theatre, Washington,DC) and Funhouse; Sex,Drugs,Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (USA/Britain); Diana Son’s Stop Kiss and Anna Deavere Smith’s House Arrest (The Public Theater); Jessica Goldberg’s Good Thing (The New Group)John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (Classic Stage Company); Danny Hoch’s Some People and Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop (USA/Britain). Other credits include, Philip Ridley’s The Fastest Clock in the Universe and Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s The Flatted Fifth (The New Group)and Warren Leight’s Stray Cats (Naked Angels).Bonney is the recipient of a 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Direction and the editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG). Upcoming: Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (Williamstown) and Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play (Second Stage)
 
Credits

Director
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 Breaking The Story Second Stage Theatre 06/04/2024 Director
2 Sabbath’s Theater Pershing Square Signature Center/ The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre 11/02/2023 Director
3 72 Miles to Go... Laura Pels Theatre (Current) 03/10/2020 Director
4 the way she spoke Minetta Lane Theatre 07/18/2019 Director
5 Eve's Song Joseph Papp Public Theater/ LuEsther Hall 11/07/2018 Director
6 Mlima's Tale Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 04/15/2018 Director
7 An Ordinary Muslim New York Theatre Workshop 02/26/2018 Director
8 The Red Letter Plays: Fucking A Pershing Square Signature Center/ The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre 09/11/2017 Director
9 Cost of Living New York City Center/ Stage I 06/07/2017 Director
10 The Body of an American Cherry Lane Theatre 02/23/2016 Director
11 Lost Girls Lucille Lortel Theatre 11/09/2015 Director
12 Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 10/28/2014 Director
13 Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 03/14/2014 Director
14 Small Engine Repair Lucille Lortel Theatre 11/20/2013 Director
15 The Mound Builders Pershing Square Signature Center/ The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre 03/17/2013 Director
16 Emotional Creature Pershing Square Signature Center/ The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre 11/12/2012 Director
17 An Early History of Fire Theatre Row / Theatre Three (previously Acorn Theater) 04/30/2012 Director
18 By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Second Stage Theatre 05/09/2011 Director
19 The Break of Noon Lucille Lortel Theatre 11/22/2010 Director
20 Beast New York Theatre Workshop 09/15/2008 Director
21 All That I Will Ever Be New York Theatre Workshop 02/06/2007 Director
22 subUrbia Second Stage Theatre 09/28/2006 Director
23 Some Girl(s) Lucille Lortel Theatre 06/08/2006 Director
24 The Seven New York Theatre Workshop 02/12/2006 Director
25 A Soldier's Play Second Stage Theatre 10/17/2005 Director
26 On the Mountain Playwrights Horizons 02/24/2005 Director
27 Fat Pig Lucille Lortel Theatre 12/15/2004 Director
28 Living Out Second Stage Theatre 09/30/2003 Director
29 Fifth of July Peter Norton Space 02/03/2003 Director
30 Good Thing Theater at St. Clement's Church 12/16/2001 Director
31 Slanguage New York Theatre Workshop 07/23/2001 Director
32 References to Salvador Dali Makes Me Hot Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater 04/09/2001 Director
33 Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Jane Street Theatre 05/05/2000 Director
34 House Arrest Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 03/27/2000 Directorial Consultant
35 Look Back in Anger East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 10/17/1999 Director
36 Stop Kiss Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater 11/17/1998 Director
37 The Fastest Clock in the Universe INTAR Theatre 04/28/1998 Director
38 The Flatted Fifth INTAR Theatre 02/04/1997 Director
39 Some People Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater 10/18/1994 Director
40 Pounding Nails in the Floor Minetta Lane Theatre 02/03/1994 Director
41 Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll Orpheum Theatre 01/30/1990 Director
42 Fun House1 Actors' Playhouse 09/29/1983 Co-Director

1Credited as Joanne Bonney.

Producer
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 Halfway Home Theater at St. Clement's Church 03/03/1999 Associate Artistic Director
2 Some Voices Theater at St. Clement's Church 01/07/1999 Associate Artistic Director

Author
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 The Seven New York Theatre Workshop 02/12/2006 Conceiver
Awards
Award Production Function
1 NOMINATED 2019 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director Mlima's Tale Director
2 WON 2019 Obie Award, Sustained Excellence in Directing    
3 NOMINATED 2018 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Director of a Play Cost of Living Director
4 WON 2015 AUDELCO Award, Director/Dramatic Production Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Director
      Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Director
5 NOMINATED 2012 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Director
6 NOMINATED 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Director
7 NOMINATED 2011 AUDELCO Award, Director/Dramatic Production By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Director
8 NOMINATED 2005 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director Fat Pig Director
9 NOMINATED 2003 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director Fifth of July Director