About Me
Buy my book! www.myfriendthecat.comFive-time MAC award-winner Phil Geoffrey Bond founded The Storefront Theatre in 2000, and currently serves as Artistic Director for the not-for-profit organization. With The Storefront, he has produced a myriad of productions, including the recent NY debut of a new version of the Stephen Schwartz/Charles Strouse/Joe Stein musical, Rags, starring Anne Runolffsson and Leslie Kritzer, and the acclaimed and consistently sold-out New Mondays series at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, which has featured such renown composers as Stephen Schwartz, Michael John LaChiusa, Maltby and Shire, Frank Wildhorn, Charles Strouse, William Finn, Andrew Lippa and Jason Robert Brown among many others. On behalf of New Mondays, Phil accepted the 2003 MAC (Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets) Award, as well as the 2003 Nightlife Award from the collected critics of New York. Recently, he produced and directed the New York revival of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, featuring an all star, rotating cast, which included Charles Busch, Jim Dale, Tonya Pinkins and Randy Graff, as well as New Mondays in Concert at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, featuring Galt MacDermot, Tom Jones, Karen Mason, Alison Fraser and others. Also at the Lortel, he produced Women on the Stage, starring Liz Callaway, Malcolm Gets, BJ Crosby, Liz McCartney and Barbara Walsh, and directed Avenue Q Swings!, with Tom Wopat and Marc Shaiman. Recently, he is the recipient of the 2005 Backstage Bistro Award and 2006 MAC Award for Directing. From 2002 – 2006, he was the Director of Programming for The Duplex Cabaret Theatre in New York City, for which he was awarded the TimeOut NY Special Achievement Award for excellence in programming. He was an Assistant Producer on the Broadway production of Disney's The Lion King from 1998 - 2001, and also worked as a publicist on the off-Broadway productions of When Pigs Fly, Shakespeare's R&J and Visiting Mr. Green (with Eli Wallach). His play, The Citadel, received its world premiere at The Sundance Theatre Lab, prior to its critically-acclaimed off-Broadway debut in 1999. Another play, The Other Side of Darkness, was presented at The Bleecker Street Theatre in New York during the summer of 2007. His other works, all of which have been presented in New York theatres, include I Remember Spring, Just Keep Dancing and My Queer Youth. His first book, My Friend, The Cat, is due to be released in early 2008 from Xlibris Press (a division of Random House). Holding two BFA's from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was awarded the Roger L. Deakins Award, the largest creative writing award bestowed by the university, for his play, Virtual Reality, he is also a member of the Dramatists Guild. In 1993, Phil was awarded the Presidential Medallion from President Clinton when he was named Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
