RITE OF PASSAGE By Bonnie Anderson by goodmantheatre

Bonnie Anderson grew up on the south side of Chicago. She majored in education. Studying in Denmark her junior year and traveling around Europe in a Datsun pickup truck, she discovered many subjects that interested her.She began a daily writing practice by sending aerograms to family and friends. Education was a perfect vehicle to study literature, drawing, painting and photography and incorporate them in her lessons. She spent a summer at UCLA studying drama and children’s theater using Viola Spolin’s Theater Games and her personal stories to motivate students to write and perform. Now retired, she began an online class writing children’s picture books. It turned out that she loved reading them, not writing them. That’s when she discovered GeNarrations. It has been a year of challenges and growth. She is especially grateful for the opportunity to meet so many talented writers with different backgrounds and experiences and for the support of the teachers.