TOO Episode 141- The Directors Lab Mediterranean Conversations, Part 3. Gregory Bonsignore and Basma Baydoun

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In this episode, Adam speaks with performance makers Gregory Bonsignore & Basma Baydoun

Gregory Bonsignore is a vagabond Playwright, director, actor, & writer for stage & screen who works & travels between LA, NYC, & abroad. He has a degree in Storytelling from NYU, trained at the BBC in London, was Playwright in Residence at The Library of Alexandria, Egypt, and is a graduate of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (his musical The Talented Mr. Ripley was selected by Steven Schwartz for the ASCAP Workshop). He's lectured at Universities, NY Public Library, and is Guest Faculty at the O’Neill Center. He has been in the writer's rooms of Homeland, Three Rivers, My Little Pony, and many others. His feature film “Can You Tell Me How” about Sesame Street, was written for a script deal with HARPO productions (Oprah Winfrey). His newest critically-acclaimed debut illustrated book "That's Betty: The Story of Betty White" was recently released.

Basma Baydoun is an Acting graduate of the Lebanese University in Beirut, & Theatre Design at Concordia University in Montréal, and currently completing her Master's in Theatre Directing at Saint Joseph's University in Beirut. Basma splits her time between performance & production work, as well as being a program manager with Ettijahat - Independent Culture, (a cultural institution that designs, implements, & supports artistic and cultural research, education, capacity-building, and production, in response to the needs of independent artistic and cultural practitioners in the Arab Region). She's collaborated with artists between Lebanon and Canada such as Sahar Assaf, Robert Reid, Mo Sabbah, and Doyle Avant, & coordinated the first & fourth editions of Director's Lab Mediterranean. Other passions revolve around food, dying houseplants, & cats. All the cats.

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AUB Liz McCann Tyler Perry Oussama Ghanam Ossama Hallal Hammana Artist House John

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