Alexandra Bonifield is a true original and a born leader.
Theater performer, director, producer, coach and teacher. Published author. Arts advocate, theater critic and feature writer. Progressive political organizer and activist. Latin tutor. Non-profit arts manager, program developer, pr director and educational coordinator. Accomplished horsewoman and equestrian entrepreneur.
Alexandra Bonifield Fall 2010
- Writer in Action
A graduate of the Hockaday School in Dallas, she attended Rice University on honor scholarship and graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas. She was elected a Business and Professional Women’s Organization “Young Careerist”, held national certification as an equestrian instructor for two decades and created and directed innovative educational drama programs in Texas and California. In 2008 she was named an Annnenberg/ National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in theater criticism. Her short story, “River of Ponies” earned publication in the 2008 Ten Spurs Journal at the highly competitive University of North Texas Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference and Writing Competition. In 2010 she guest lectured at The University of North Texas in theater criticism. In 2011 she attended the National Media Reform Conference in Boston on scholarship. She writes regularly for national and regional on-line sites, publications and magazines. Her theatre criticism and advocacy blog criticalrant.com has a strong regional and national following, and she is a respected voting member of the Dallas-Ft.Worth Theatre Critics’ Forum.
Bonifield draws inspiration from Molly Ivins, Pauline Kael, Wendy Wasserstein, Jeannette Rankin, Terry Tempest Williams, Barbar Boxer, Rachel Maddow and Hildegarde of Bingen. She dreams of a peaceful, vibrant world where the arts and artists are supported, honored and compensated fully for their positive contribution to the sanity and balance of every society on earth….
