Biography

Jonathan Bonfiglio is a writer and producer currently based in Mexico.

Bonfiglio is Project Director of The Clipperton Project, an international scientific and artistic expedition to a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific (www.theclippertonproject.com) involving participants from six different countries, and subsequent presentations in many more.

As a writer, his most recent play, Tatchell, played at the Waterloo East Theatre in London in 2011, having earlier premiered in Oxford in April 2010.  In May 2009, Midnight When Trumpets Cry opened at the Brighton Fringe and was later presented at The Latchmere (Theatre503). He is also the author Acapulco Falls (optioned for film production by Samurai Films) and is now completing La Linea, a play in Spanish,  and two other novels, Ghost Dog, a children’s book, and 2009, a novel about the premature death of an untalented writer. He is currently engaged with writing a series of essays in accompaniment to The Clipperton Project.

As a producer, he once ran the now dead Kuiperfest in north Spain, the Dos Equis Series (also no longer of our time) and continues to initiate and produce various other one-off events and longer running series, such as an event last January in association with Naim Rahal “El Libanes” Manzanilla where the took over a hotel in the centre of Mexico City for a project focusing on memory.  He is also now a full-time member of the South-West of England’s best-known Clown troupe: Le Navet Bete.

In May 2010 he was described in Mexico’s La Jornada as being “one of the most groundbreaking producers of his generation” and in The News as being “a Renaissance Man, tirelessly working to forge cultural bonds.”

Finally, he is also touring various countries with a series of  talks, including On Disappearing and  On Movement (and Memory) www.twitter.com/movementmemory .

Click here to download a PDF giving info on the talk.

For more info about any of this, you can use the form on the Contact page or simply to write him a hateful diatribe, here’s where: jonbonfiglio@yahoo.co.uk