KellyAnn Bonnell

Background: The former Executive Director of an educational nonprofit specializing in out of school time quality improvement, KellyAnn Bonnell brings an eclectic knowledge base to arts education. She now consults with individual artists and arts organizations helping them embrace their role in arts education and arts for social change. Bonnell helps artists translate what they do into something they can teach in schools, after school programs and youth organizations, which can be a way to pay the rent while still acting, playing music ect. Part of making it in the entertainment industry is understanding how to find the schools, how to speak their language and how to find the money that is going to pay you as an artist. A costume artist in her own right, she began her career in entertainment in 1985. Since that time her work has graced the stages of educational and professional theatre as well as film. [b]Interests:[/b] Crafting and Sewing, Reading, Writing, Playwrighting, Screenwriting, Live Theatre, Action Movies, Science Fiction [b]Upcoming Events:[/b] The premier for Alex§s Arndt§s new media animal rights video will be held in Phoenix in May 2009. The Arts for Social Change Acting Camp for Young Actors 13-18 years old will held June 1-26 and July 6-31 at Chyro Arts Venue in Scottsdale, AZ.

Interests: Peer Consultant in Arts Education for the Arizona Commission on the Arts 2004 EMMA Award Winner for Entrepreneurial Mother of the Year

Goals: Arts forSocial Change Director at Infinite Spectrum Productions Current Projects: The Faythe Project: A Teen Dating Violence Initiative Inside Creative Minds for local PBS Affilate- KAET Arts for Social Change Acting Summer Camp Past Projects: Film Production Costume Designer, Infinite Spectrum Productions, Star Quest: The Odyssey, Feature Film, Director Jon Bonnell, February 2009 Costume Designer, Infinite Spectrum Productions, The Abducted, Feature Film, Director Jon Bonnell, March 2008 Theater Production: Costume Designer, North Valley Playhouse, La Cage Aux Folles, Director Jeanna Witaker, May 2008 Props Mistress/Set Dresser, Arizona Jewish Theatre Company, Kindertransport, Director Janet Arnold, April 2008 Costume Designer, Theater Works YouthWorks, I Was a Teenage Fairy Tale Character, Director Jim Gradillas, December 2007Assistant Costume Designer, Theater Works, The Christmas Schooner, Director Mark Austin, December 2007 Costume Designer, Theater Works YouthWorks, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Director Katherine Blanco-Zatarski, December 2007 Costume Designer, Theater Works, Dracula, Director Wes Martin, October 2007[/*] Costume Designer, Theater Works YouthWorks, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Director Jim Gradillas, October 2007 Costume Designer, North Valley Playhouse, Dracula, Director Jeana Whitaker, Opens September 2007 Costume Designer, Theatre Works, Marat/Sade, Director Wes Martin, August 2007 Costume Designer, Theatre Works, Summer Youth Programs, Hysterix, and Twisted Tales/ Alice and Wonderland, Director Jim Gradillas, Summer 2007 Costume Designer, Theatre Works, Peoria Accelerated High School Production of Sleepy Hollow, Director Jim Gradillas, May 2007 Costume Designer, Theatre Works, In Hysterix: Youth Performance Troupe, May 2007 Consulting Designer, Arizona Women§s Theater, Pandora Festival, Diary of A Lost Mind, May 2007 [b]Publications:[/b] [list] [*]Bonnell, KellyAnn C. (2004) Contributing author in the Arizona School-Age Train the Trainer: Survival Skills 101, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension[/*] [*]Bonnell, KellyAnn C. (2004) Transitions: Beyond Classroom Management; Christian Early Education, Volume 5 Number 2, pp10-12[/*] [*]Bonnell, KellyAnn C.& Ritchie, Meghan (2002) Babies' Simple Pleasures Parent Guidebook: Our Beautiful Bodies, Scottsdale, AZ: Early On Productions, LLC[/*] [*]Bonnell, KellyAnn C. (2002) Pinnacle School-Age Faith-Based Curriculum, Stone Mountain Georgia: Professional Training and Consulting[/*] [/list]