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ROSE BURNETT BONCZEK Department Chair and Program Head, BFA in Acting rbonczek@brooklyn.cuny.edu Professor Bonczek holds a BA in directing from SUNY New Paltz (1980) and an MFA in directing from Brooklyn College (1991). She has directed extensively in both New York and regional theater; New York credits include Pygmalion for Jean Cocteau Repertory, which was voted Best Off Broadway revival in Zagat’s New York, productions at Ensemble Studio Theater, 78th Street Theater Lab, Theater of the Open Eye. Regional credits include Berkshire Theater Festival, resident director for River Arts Repertory (premiere of revised version of Hair) and director of their New Works series (Len Jenkin, Maria Irene Fornes, Mary Gallagher, etc.) for six years, resident director of Synergy Ensemble of Long Island (directed 13 productions), Baltimore Theater Project, and Two Faced created and performed by Lynn Adams – originally for Performing Arts of Woodstock, toured regionally and nationally, later made into a feature film. For three years Professor Bonczek has been director and producer for GI60 (Gone in 60 Seconds), the world’s first international one minute play festival presented in association with Harrogate Theatre of the UK, Leeds Metropolitan University UK and Screaming Media Productions. Fifty one-minute plays are chosen each by the UK and US venues from over 400 submissions, each set of performances are digitally recorded then downloaded to a dedicated website (www.screamingmediaproductions.net). In 2007 GI60 received support from the BBC, and both the UK and US 2007 productions will be shown in summer 2007 by BBC. Plans are underway in 2008 to expand to two more global locations, Australia and Mumbai. Educational direction includes The Crucible, The Waiting Room, The Laramie Project (both at Brooklyn College and the New School for Social Research), and the upcoming Take Me Out. Professor Bonczek served as Managing Editor for the International Bibliography of Theatre from 1989 to 2001. She has taught acting, improvisation and theater at Brooklyn College since 1989 to both undergraduate and graduate students. Her special interest lies in the area of ancient ritual, with a particular focus on researching ritual sites of the Irish Neolithic (2000-4000 BC). For four seasons, she participated in the excavation and surveying of a Neolithic court tomb on the Burren, County Clare, Ireland, and results of this dig can be found in Archaeology of the Burren and the Aran Islands by Dr. Carleton Jones. This research was followed up with a series of workshops with actors designed to explore how the creative impulse could illuminate aspects of ritual activity by working backwards from physical evidence. mailto:rbonczek@brooklyn.cuny.eduhttp://www.screamingmediaproductions.netshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1
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