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Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
is a performer,
a dancer,
a teacher
and teller of tales,
that merge the real and the fantastic,
the funny and the poignant,
the familiar and the forbidden.
"Bonin-Rodriguez's navigation of such rocky landscapes is sure and clear, and while as an actor he tends to be benevolent to all his characters, as a writer he explores with a bold and caring honesty."
— The Riverfront Times
These are stories
about longing and belonging.
About culture, gender, sexuality and class,
colliding,
bending,
and revealing
things concealed
on the American landscape.
"Oh yeah, Bonin-Rodriguez's stuff wasn't just relevant, realistic and well-structured, it was also funny as hell."
– Daily Collegian, UMASS Amherst
He continues to perform and teach performance across the U.S.
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BIOGRAPHYPaul Bonin-Rodriguez is an accomplished writer, performer and dancer who has earned a nationwide reputation over the last decade for consistently creating theater and performance works that combine humor, poignancy and social relevance.
As a solo artist, he created the trilogy of solo shows, Talk of the Town (1991-2), The Bible Belt and Other Accessories (1993), and Love in the Time of College (1994), which are collectively known as The Texas Trinity. These works have been presented at theaters and Universities across the nation and have been featured in Theater Journal and Text and Performance Quarterly. His more recent solo work, Memory's Caretaker (1999) has been presented in Miami, Chicago, Boston, San Diego, San Antonio and Cedar Rapids.
Since 1995, he has worked has extensively in collaboration. With Michael Marinez and Beto Araiza, he co-created Quinceañera (1997), a multidisciplinary performance ritual celebrating survival during the first 15 years of the pandemic AIDS crisis. Quinceañera was featured at the Inroads Festival of Americas and the Intersections Conference at UMASS Amherst. With Kitty Williams, he co-created two highly acclaimed solo shows, The Great Chittlin' Debate(1996) and Katherine's Joint (2001). With dancers Barbara Magee and Leslie Siegel, he co-founded and directed B'Alamo (1996-1998), a community-based multi-disciplinary dance company for artists age 7-70.
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez teaches writing, performance, and collaboration as tools to artists of all abilities and age. Twice he has been named Tennessee Williams Fellow at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. In 2000 at Sewanee, he collaborated with 25 students to create Common Sources, a multi-disciplinary play examining the importance of drinking as a social ritual as well as its more dangerous aspects.
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez has an extensive background in the arts, media and the field of education. Formerly a dancer with Several Dancers Core in Atlanta, the Colorado Ballet and David Taylor Dance Theater in Denver, CO, and Austin Ballet Theater, he also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from the University of Texas (1986) and a Masters in English and Communications from St. Mary's University (1991). He has worked as a producer for the nationally syndicated television series, Heritage (1991-1993), about U.S. Latinos, and as an Instructor at Palo Alto College (1992-1994). He has written for the Austin Chronicle, the San Antonio Express-News, and the Texas Triangle. Publications include fiction in Men on Men, 5 (Plume, 1995), non-fiction in Friends and Lovers (Dutton, 1994) and poetry in I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You (Simon and Schuster, 1996).
In San Antonio, where he is based, he is a member of Jump-Start Performance Co. a community-based performance company dedicated to the creation of all-original work.
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