28/07/2022
Speaker Announcement No. 14: Bonnie Greer, OBE, FRSL.
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Bonnie Greer, OBE, FRSL, is an American-British award-winning playwright, novelist, critic and broadcaster, who lives in the UK. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up on the Southside. She studied playwriting with David Mamet and Elia Kazan. She has had several plays produced and was awarded the Verity Bargate Award for her memoir, A Parallel Life. She has also written for the stage, screen and radio. She is an advocate of free speech and truly inclusive higher education, regardless of individual gender and cultural background. Her podcast ‘In Search of Black History” for Audible UK is a success on both sides of the Atlantic. More recently, she curated ‘The Era of Reclamation’ at the British Museum—a series of conversations around ownership, not only of ourselves and our identities but of what we believe belongs to us.
Bonnie has appeared as a panelist on television programmes such as BBC Newsnight Review and Question Time and has served on boards of several leading arts organisations, including the British Museum, the Royal Opera house and the London Film School. She is also a former theatre critic and former Chancellor of Kingston University in Kingston upon Thames, London. In 2010 she was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for her contribution to the arts and has served on the boards of leading arts organisations. In the following year, she was named one of the UK’s Top 300 Public Intellectuals. More recently, in July 2022, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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