Bruce Bonafede

Bruce Bonafede is an American playwright. He is a Lifetime Member of the Dramatists Guild.

Bonafede's first produced play, Advice to the Players, is a drama that studies the relationship between art and politics. The play's inspiration was an incident at the 1981 International Theater Festival in Baltimore, where two acclaimed South African actors were caught up in an international boycott of South Africa's apartheid policies. The play was produced again at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival for New American Plays in April 1985, and won the Heideman Award as best one-act play of the festival. Following the production at Actors Theatre of Louisville, a 90-minute version without intermission was produced at the Philadelphia Festival of New Plays in 1986. The 90-minute version of the play was published by Samuel French in 2015.

Other writing projects remain confidential due to contractual agreements.

Awards

Advice to the Players, his first produced play, won the Heideman Award at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1985.

Published works

Advice to the Players (1985) Nobody Knows My Name by Anonymous (2013)