BONNIE DUFF, COMMUNICATIONS & DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT + PROJECT MANAGER: NEW COMMUNITIES OUTREACH

Bonnie (she/her) is a Finnish-Canadian theatre artist and administrator who has worked as an actor, stage manager, producer, playwright and more in Vancouver, Toronto, and London (England).

Bonnie has worked extensively onstage and off in the touring of TYA shows, adaptations of classical works, and the development of new musical theatre. She has worked in a variety of performance, production, and administrative capacities with organizations such as Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, UpintheAir Theatre, Carousel Theatre for Young People, Crow’s Theatre, Shifting Ground Collective, KidSafe Productions, and many, many Fringe festivals over the years. She comes to this role with a strong background in patron services, producing, and communications.

With GFT, she also wears the hat of Communications Assistant. Being a lover of theatre, talking, and talking about theatre, Bonnie’s administrative work is in the service of the goal that one day, theatre in Toronto might be discussed as commonly and casually as professional sports! She is looking forward to working with and welcoming new communities to GFT this summer.

Bonnie’s playwrighting has been supported by grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. Most recently, Bonnie’s play, “This Feels Like The End”, premiered at the 2024 Next Stage Theatre Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (called “an exemplary piece of work out of Covid-19” by the Toronto Star). She is currently working on a new play, “Anton and I”. Bonnie holds a BFA in Acting from the University of British Columbia, where she was the recipient of the Joy Coghill Award in Theatre, and a certificate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England.