Dorothea Hubble Bonneau
Award Winning Author
Print, Stage, Screen
writing to honor diversity and celebrate inclusion
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Dorothea Hubble Bonneau is an award-winning novelist, produced playwright, and optioned screenwriter.
Her goal as a writer is to expand the boundaries of the known world and to plumb the spectrum of her own desires and deceits in order to create multi-faceted characters with compelling stories to tell. Her hope is that the journey of her characters will become a pathway of understanding grounded in a quest for identity, compassion, courage, community and creativity.
Dorothea has facilitated writing craft workshops for: Other Words Writing Conference, Tampa, Florida; Historical Writers Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia; University of the Pacific; University of Phoenix; University of California; Davis Public Schools, Davis, Ca.; California Writers Club.
Her work has been featured by multiple book clubs. She enjoyed participating in discussions with the California Writers Club, A.A.U.W., and the Author’s Show.
Biography
Concentrations
Dorothea Hubble Bonneau writes across genres. Her most recent novel Once in a Blood Moon, historical action-adventure set in South Carolina in the early 1800’s, charts a young African American violinist’s fight for freedom. According to the Kirkus Review, “This novel explores issues of equality and personal freedom in thought-provoking ways. Sharp writing, an original plot, and a strong female protagonist make for an engrossing read. In her recommendation for Bonneau’s science fiction fantasy, Ruth Cox, Reader for Disney, wrote, “Seekers from Zantaparon has a timeless quality and
contains messages that will last a lifetime.” Bonneau’s column, Our Children by Dottie Fisk, ran for five years in the Davis Enterprise. Her stories have appeared in Blue Moon Literary and Art Review. She’s available for book-club visits, readings, and craft workshops.
Stage
A produced playwright with more than five dozen productions, Dorothea’s work includes bio-pics, adapted classics, dramas, and family musicals. Her adaptation of To Destroy You is No Loss, by Joan Criddle and Thida Butt Mam, is currently published by Dramatic Publishing and is widely staged. Most recently, her original children’s musical,
Little Bird’s Second Chance (lyrics/music by Rob Broadhurst), was presented by NorCal Arts at Sacramento’s Fairytale Town. Bonneau also develops scripts for schools and community theaters.
Screen
Dorothea writes character-driven stories for screen and TV. Her Once in a Blood Moon TV Pilot was a finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, and the Palm Springs Diversity Screenplay Awards. Sub Rosa Productions has optioned two of Bonneau’s screenplays. She welcomes adaptation and screenwriting consulting inquiries.
"The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit – for gallantry in defeat – for courage, compassion and love.
"In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation."
John Steinbeck, Nobel Acceptance Speech