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Speakers

Nancy Hunter Denney

Will Keim

Writer-Performer Paul Bonin-Rodriguez has earned a reputation as one of
today's most innovative and insightful narrative artists. His
internationally acclaimed one-man show, The Bible Belt and Other
Accessories, was first presented in Dallas at DTC's "Out on the Edge" in
1996 and won him a Dallas Theater Critics' Forum award for Outstanding Lead
Actor. Dallas Morning News Critic Lawson Taitte hailed this show as "a
one-man Greater Tuna with ambitions as high art."

The Bible Belt and Other Accessories is a hilarious and poignant tale of
small town Texas, chronicling the coming out/coming-of-age of Johnny, an
irrepressible small town sissy boy and major Judds fan. Joining forces with
his best friend, Chicana feminist Delinda Domingo and his African-American
Home Economics Instructor, Ms. Dove, Johnny forms a ragtag team of defiance
and accomplishment and ultimately, a fashion weapon of gospel truth - an
actual belt of bibles - to protest the Religious Right movement that has
penetrated his high school.

Paul's "Memory's Caretaker" is a uniquely South-Texas tale of
multi-generational border crossings. It is a funny powerful and poingnant
tale of one American family, spanning 3 generations, and in particular that
family's efforts to reconcile itself with the American melting pot by hiding
key complex ingredients of multiple social, cultural, and sexual identities.

Paul Bonin-Rodriguez lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he is member of
Jump-Start Performance Co. He has appeared at major venues nationwide,
including the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York, the Alice B. Theater
in Seattle, Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles, and the Actor's
Theater of Louisville. He was nominated for Solo Performer of the Year by
the Bay Area Critics Circle, along with Anna Deveare Smith, and named
Performer of the Year by the Austin Critics Table. His writing has been
published in Men on Men 5, Friends and Lovers and I Feel a Little Jumpy
Around You and his performance has been featured in Theater Journal and Text
and Performance Quarterly. He is taught in
Spring '00 at the University of the South, as a Tennessee Williams Fellow.

Paul is also available for residencies and workshops including: Cooling Off
the Melting Pot
A multi-cultural, multi-ethnic workshop for uncovering the stories
passed down to us and recognizing them as markers to our cultural
identity..." He
wants to get at aggregate identites, how we are all not just one thing, but
many --queer, of color, Irish, Latino... -- and what that means.

The Drinking Project

Exploring in-depth our attitudes toward alcohol in our lives and culminating
in the development of an original production or work-in-progress by
participating students.

For more information, and to participate in Paul's tour of US college
campuses, feel free to contact:

Shelly Weiss
OUTmedia@msn.com
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/8517/
718.789.1776

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