Jesse Bonnell
b. 1985
Email. jdbonnell@gmail.com
Web. jessebonnell.org
poordoggroup.org
thefoghorn.org
Education
California Institute of the Arts, B.F.A. & M.F.A.
Projects
2024 ‘Idiopathic Hypersomnia’, The Brick, New York 2023 ‘Field Guide for a Forgotten Practice’, publishing, NYC 2022 ‘Via Dolorosa’, Music Video, Pegg / Brassland Records 2021 ‘Behind Blue Sky’, Short Film, 55 minutes, New York University, New York . ‘Flag Semaphores’, Public performance/video installation, Castello San Basilio, Italy
‘Where Can I Go’, Documentary film, 75 minutes, Jewish Federation Raleigh, North Carolina
2020 ‘Plate Spinner’, Short film commissioned by Rick Valitcenti, Chicago
‘Oedipus’the King, California Institute of the Arts, California
2019 ‘Paradise Island’, Texts by Richard Foreman, REDCAT NOW Festival, California
‘Sweat: An a capella opera’, Music by Juliet Palmer, Libretto by Anna Chatterton
‘Hedda Gabler’,written by Henrik Ibsen, California Institute of the Arts
2018 ‘Group Therapy’, Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Center Theater Group,
California >> A Project of Creative Capital
2017 ‘Group Therapy’, LAX Festival, Bootleg Theater, California
‘Richard III’ written by William Shakespeare, California Institute of the Arts, California
2016 ‘Purgatorio’, Lower Manhattan Cultural Arts Council, New York
2015 ‘Murder Ballad 1938’, REDCAT, California
‘Purgatorio’ Catch! Series, New York
2014 ‘Five Small Fires’, Bootleg Theater, California
2013 ‘Murder Ballad 1938’, LAX Festival, California, Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York
‘Five Small Fires’, CATCH! Series, New York
2012 ‘The Internationalists’, South Coast Repertory Theater, California
‘Everything You Ever Wanted’, The Lillian Theater, California
‘Murder Ballad 1938’ lyrics by Jelly Roll Morton, REDCAT NOW Festival, California
2011 ‘Dionysia’, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, New York
‘Shotgun’ based on The Seagull, by Chekhov, Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York
‘Everything You Ever Wanted’, The Collapsable Hole, New York
2010 ‘Satyr Atlas’, The Getty Villa Museum, California
2009 ‘The Internationalists’, The Contemporary Museum Santa Barbara, California
The Grotowski Institute, Poland, South Coast Repertory Theater, California
*International Tour: The Student Centre (Zagreb), DH Renoma Mall /U.S. Artists Initiative hosted by The Grotowski Institute, (Poland) National. . Theatre, (Pula, Croatia), National Theater (Belgrade, Valjevo, Uzice), Scradin International Theater, (Croatia)
2008 ‘Hey Hey Man Hey’, REDCAT New Original Works Festival, REDCAT Studio Series,
Lillian Theater, California
2007 ‘The Midnight Sun’, REDCAT Studio Series, California
‘Desire Caught by the Tail’, written by Pablo Picasso, Atwater Playhouse, California
‘Night Just Before the Forest’, written by Bernard Marie Koltez, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland
Selected Collaboration
2012 ‘Love's End’, FI:AF, Crossing the Line Festival, written by Pascal Rambert, New York
2011. ‘Brewise and Willie’, RADAR L.A. Festival, written by Gertrude Stein, directed by Travis Preston,
co-presented by CalArts Center for New Performance, California
‘The Lunacy Commission’, The Kirk Douglas Theater, in collaboration with Lars Jan, California
‘Greek Tragedy’, REDCAT, collaboration with Grzegorz Jarzyna, TR Warszawa, California
‘Comedy of Errors’, The Guthrie Theater, directed by Ian Belknap, performed in partnership with The Acting Company, Minnesota
2009 ‘Serial #17’, The Performance Warehouse, collaboration with Lenka Udocichki, California
‘Romeo and Juliet”, The Guthrie Theater, directed by Penny Metropulos, in partnership with The Acting Company, Minnesota
2008 - 2018 Co-Founder, Lead Artist, Poor Dog Group, California
Residencies
2020/21 Castello San Basilio, Italy
2018 Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Center Theater Group, California
CalArts Center for New Performance, California
2016 Headlands Art Center, Artist in Residence, San Francisco
Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Los Angeles
Center Theater Group, Los Angeles
2015 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace Program, New York
Abrons Art Center, New York
2013 University of California Los Angeles, Department of World Cultures, California
Inner City Arts, California
2012 MacDowell Fellowship, New Hampshire
Yaddo, New York
CalArts Center for New Performance, California
2011 Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), New York
Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Netherlands
2010 University of California Los Angeles, Department of World Cultures
The Getty Villa Museum, California
REDCAT / Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland
2009 US Artists Incentive, Warsaw, Poland
University of Zagreb, &2D Student Center for the Arts, Croatia
Daska Theater, Pula, Croatia
Ulysses Theater Company, Mali Bruini, Croatia
2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland
The Elephant Theater Company, California
Teaching & Artist Lectures
Pace University, Adjunct Faculty New York University, Guest Lecturer The California Institute of the Arts, Guest Lecturer NYU Theater and Health Forum, Artist Talk
CCA Annual Conference, Artist Talk
Cal State LA
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Occidental College, Guest Lecturer
Creative Capital
University of California Santa Barbara
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The University of Zagreb
Recognition & Awards
2020 Fondazione Elpis, Una Boccata d'arte commission 2017 Lillian Disney Scholarship (2017 - 2020)
The Ahmanson Foundation Grant, California
2016 Selected as part of the inaugural class, Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Artist Institute, New York
2014 “Top LA Experimental Theater Company”, LA WEEKLY
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Grant
Los Angeles Cultural Arts Council (OGP 2)
2013 Creative Capital, Performing Arts Award
Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Malta International Festival Guest Invitation
2012 #1 Top Theater to See”, by LA WEEKLY
Los Angeles County Arts Commission Organizational Grants Program (OGP 1)
2011 New work commission, Experimental Media and Performing Arts, Troy, New York
Creative Capacity Fund
Next Gen Arts Grant
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Grant
The Center for Cultural Innovation ARC Grant
2010 New work commission, The Getty Villa Theater Lab, Malibu, California
Los Angeles Times ‘Critics Choice’
National Endowment for The Arts National Recovery Grant
The Ahmanson Foundation Development Grant administered by Theater Communications Group
Cultural Exchange International
2009 The Grotowski Institute, Festival Invitation
Theater Communications Group ITI Travel Grant
Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant
United States Embassy, Belgrade Project Support
New Work Commission, Museum for Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
Selected Press
KCRW > Theater Review: The premature death of a dream
LA WEEKLY > Poor Dog Group's Five Small Fires Looks at What Happens When a Cult Is Right (GO!)
LA TIMES > 'Five Small Fires' fans obscure flames at Bootleg Theater
LA WEEKLY > How Is L.A.'s Top Experimental Theater Company Like a Cult?
LA WEEKLY > The Chaotic Travels of the Theater Company Poor Dog Group
LA WEEKLY > Dogs in Space: Poor Dog Group's Space Race Play The Internationalists at South Coast Rep
LA WEEKLY > Poor Dog Group: Anti-Theater
MALIBU TIMES > Theater Lab Series offers artists unique venue to develop work
LA TIMES > U.S. job-stimulus dollars help bring Gertrude Stein novella to L.A. stage
LA TIMES > Taxpayer waste? Fox 11 news probes 'boondoggle' in city arts grant
LA TIMES > Theater review: 'Brewsie and Willie' at Los Angeles Street Loft
STAGE AND CINEMA > MIRACLE ON SOUTH LOS ANGELES STREET
LA TIMES > 'The Internationalists' at Lillian Theatre
KCRW > Theater Review: The Cult of Ensemble
LA STAGE TIMES > Poor Dog Group Returns to Its REDCAT Roots
EYESPYLA > "THE INTERNATIONALISTS" IS LIKE GETTING A MIX TAPE FROM A LOVER