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KATIE BONNA
Nationality: British
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Literary Agent: United Agents represented by Jess Alford
Katie is an award-winning performance poet, actress and writer for stage and screen. Dirty Great Love Story, co-written with Richard Marsh, won a Fringe First Award at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she was also nominated for Best Actress by The Stage. The play went on to run at Soho Theatre and in New York at 59E59 Theaters in 2013. She is a resident with live literature collective Homework and performs regularly at spoken word nights across the country. Other writing includes Terminal 4 (Bush Theater RADAR season 2013), Underlay (Nabokov at Soho Theatre), Fifteen Minutes With You (Wimbledon College Of Art), Building Dens At The Plaza (Company Of Angels for The Commissioners), one woman show The Celebrated Mrs Inchbald (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and the U.S.); The Glass Tower (Red Handed Theatre Company) and Liquorice & Smoke-Rings (PULSE Festival). Katie is currently developing a TV series with Wildgaze films, a one woman show (All The Things I Lied About) with the support of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and a YA novel set over the year 1997.
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All The Things I Lied About Celebrated Mrs Inchbald, The Dirty Great Love Story DuetAll The Things I Lied About
Part documentary, part poetry, part comedy - mostly lies. Katie Bonna has not spoken to her father for seven years. Well, actually it's more like three years because he did storm that Sunday roast that one time, but seven years sounds more dramatic and she wants you to know that this situation is DRAMATIC. 2016 is the year of two weddings: her brother's and her own. Her dad will be at one of those and it isn't hers. As far as she's aware, he doesn't know she's getting married. As far as she's aware, he doesn't even know she's marrying a woman. All The Things I Lied About is a comic exploration of what estranged Katie from her father in the first place and what she's going to do about it in the face of apparently being a grown-up. Part documentary and part personal experience, the award-winning writer performer will question what makes us all lie, what keeps us lying and why none of us really like honesty as much as we say we do.
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Vaults Festival 2016
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The Vaults, Leake St, Waterloo, SE1 7NN
04 Feb 2016
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work in progress show 60 min
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the Celebrated Mrs Inchbald - This fascinating and beautiful study of Bury's own playwright Elizabeth Inchbald
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part of Restoring the Repertoire - Double Bill: the Celebrated Mrs Inchbald/the Wolf and the Lamb
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Can a one-night stand last a lifetime? In her eyes, he's a mistake. A mistake who keeps turning up at parties. In his eyes, she's perfect. He's short-sighted. these hopeful, hapless romantics shamble through bleary mornings after, merry Christmas parties and cider-soaked festivals but can they get together? Or even get breakfast? An achingly funny on-off love story of good intentions, bad timing and friendly livestock.
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written by Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna. A very human tale of good intentions and bad timing. Winner of 2012 Fringe First (for innovation and outstanding new writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Dirty Great Love Story is a tale of the chance of love in a one-night stand. Developed at the Vault Festival at the Old Vic Tunnels, under the working title "Brand New love Story" on 24 Feb 2012
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comedy, poetry
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Duet is a brand-new piece, so at the time of writing we can't give you a synopsis of the story. But you can probably expect tales of the world's least romantic, most romantic stag and hen dos, festivals, lonely Christmas dinners and a pineapple. A wry, warm, real romance told in a hopeful, heartfelt way.
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written by Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna. A scratch performance by Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna. Richard and Katie perform hilarious, heartbreaking poems together.
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Arch 61, Ewer St Southwark SE1 0NR
07 Oct 2011
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Part of the Nursery Festival in Southwark
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