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Benito Di Fonzo

BENITO DI FONZO

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Born into an Irish-Italian working class family in Sydneys Inner West, Journalist, playwright, poet and performer Benito Di Fonzo has written for, and been profiled by, the best and worst of publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Sun Herald, the Australian, CNN, and Bardfly Magazine (where he was editor). Benito has performed his narrative neo-beat poems and spoken word in London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Rome, Adelaide, Perth and IndonesiA. As well as writing radio serials and plays for 2SeR and 2FBI he has had two plays broadcast live from the Sydney Opera House. He has also performed on ABC 702 and Radio National, 3RRR (Melbourne) and Resonance FM (UK) amongst others. In 2005 Independence Jones Guerrilla Press published Benitos free-verse novel Her, Leaving, As the Acid Hits to positive reviews. His debut stage play Breakfast At Krishna's filled houses at Tap, Sydney in 2000. Benitos 2010 production the Chronic Ills of Robert Zimmerman, AKA Bob Dylan (A Lie) was a hit of Adelaide Fringe before several sold-out seasons in Sydney and a litany of glowing reviews, resulting in the show being awarded the 2010 BITe (Best of Independent Theatre.) It is still touring Australia. Benitos second Fonzo Journalistic show, Lenny Bruce: 13 Daze Un-Dug in Sydney 1962 will premiere in 2013. Benito holds degrees in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Western Sydney. In 2001 he was awarded the Inner City Life Literary Award by the NSW Writers Centre. His favourite colour is irrelevant.

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         Breakfast At Krishna's         Chronic Ills of Robert Zimmerman AKA BOB DYLAN (A LIe), The         Lenny Bruce: 13 Daze Un-Dug In Sydney, 1962         Political Hearts of Children         Riff on Keef, A: The Human Myth

Breakfast At Krishna's

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Sydney     2000

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Chronic Ills of Robert Zimmerman AKA BOB DYLAN (A LIe), The

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the Chronic Ills of Robert Zimmerman AKA BOB DYLAN (A LIe) is a musical, theatrical, poetic and fast-paced journey through Dylan's wild life. It is not a tribute show, but a wild and fanciful ride through the eyes of a fascinating artist. Dylan is a self-made enigma, creating his own myths and legends and through the show he introduces the audience to the many characters that formed his amazing story, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to TS eliot, Abraham Lincoln to Joan Baez, Johnny Cash to Marilyn Monroe and even Jesus Christ himself.

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Seymour Downstairs Theatre, Chippendale, Nsw     04 Feb 2008

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Short & Sweet Sydney Week 4

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Satire/Comedy, Musical theatre 75 min

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/80170

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Lenny Bruce: 13 Daze Un-Dug In Sydney, 1962

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In September 1962 controversial US comedian Lenny Bruce followed his successful season at Peter Cook's 'Establishment Club' with what was intended to be a two-week season at Sydney's Aaron's Hotel. Legendary music promoter Lee Gordon had lured Lenny on the promise of a US$2000 a week pay-cheque. However Sydney was not Soho and at Bruce's first 11pm show there was uproar, abuse, and condemnation, followed by a sensational trial-by-media beginning with a doctored photo on the front of the next morning's Daily Mirror of Lenny giving a Nazi salute. Things went downhill rapidly from there. Aaron's and every other hotel in Sydney were threatened with losing liquor licenses if they gave Bruce a gig. Shows hastily organised at the universities of Sydney and NSW by The Sydney Push and Richard Neville were cancelled at the last moment by Deans. Even the ABC bowed to increasing political pressure, cancelling his scheduled TV appearance despite staff protesting. The infamously corrupt NSW cops became involved, with Vice Squad officers crashing Lenny's Pott's Point hotel and barring any Kings Cross chemists from filling his prescriptions (provided by Sydney Push GP Dr Rocky.) Bruce was left wandering Kings Cross in search of jazz, which he found, until Gordon finally secured the Wintergarden Theatre in Rose Bay where Lenny was finally able to give a full performance. After thirteen days Bruce slimly avoided arrest by flying back to the United States.

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Comedy, Historical, Reportage, Surrealism 90 min

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Political Hearts of Children

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The Political Hearts of Children is made from the actors' own stories. First installment of the Table Talk Trilogy

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TAP Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW     11 Apr 2013

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Subtlenuance

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storytelling

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/110137

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Riff on Keef, A: The Human Myth

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Spend an evening with the greatest living myth, Rolling Stone 'Keef' Richards. Hedonistic and hilariously absurd, this latest theatrical jam from playwright Benito Di Fonzo and director Lucinda Gleeson stars Terry Serio.

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Griffin Theatre Company

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