Meet ‘Last Night of Ballyhoo’ actor Bonnie Knapp
The 1997 Tony Award-winning comedy/drama The Last Night of Ballyhoo opens at the Laboratory Theater of Florida on April 14. Among the show’s talented cast is Bonnie Knapp.
Lab Theater audiences will remember Bonnie from her one-woman show I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, where (ironically) she played a German Jew immigrant who learned English via a movie theater in Utica, New York before going on to become one of Hollywood’s most powerful talent agents. Other recent roles include Aiofe in Outside Mulliganar, Isabella in A Sleeping Country, Dottie/Mrs. Clackett in Noises Off, Margie in Good People, Matilde in The Clean 
House and Miss Fischer in A Picasso with the Naples Players. She also played Anne Ripley Smith in the Broadway Palm Theatre production of Bill W & Dr. Bob, as well as various other roles with the Sugden Community Theatre, TheatreZone and the Marco Players, where she has also directed.
Bonnie says that acting is her passion and a talent for which she is ever grateful. It shows.
March 31, 2017.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.