Biography

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

His most recent play, Tatchell, played at Oxfringe in April 2010.  In May 2009, Midnight When Trumpets Cry opened at the Brighton Fringe and was later presented at The Latchmere (Theatre503) in October. 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.

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 in November in association with Naim Rahal “El Libanes” Manzanilla where they will take over a hotel in the centre of Mexico City for a project focusing on memory. In March 2011 Bonfiglio is leading a three-week scientific and artistic expedition to a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific. He is also Creative Consultant to the Mexican artist Beatriz Canfield Zapata, musicians Louis Barabbas and Emily Manuel, and presents a weekly cultural radio show in Mexico called El Gusano.

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 talk: 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