She hosted her first live talk show at WMUB in Oxford, Ohio, while pursuing a Master's Degree in Mass Communication at Miami University. She was the fine arts editor and daily music host at WKSU in Kent and then the morning drive host and producer/host of a weekly arts magazine for KUSC in Los Angeles. Bonnie's tenure as producer/announcer in public radio includes other NPR affiliates such as WNYC in New York and WGBH in Boston, plus a variety of commercial stations including KKGO in Los Angeles and its sister station in San Francisco. Currently, she freelances as host/producer for NPR in Washington, DC, and can be heard coast-to-coast Monday through Friday on the nationally syndicated jazz network, Jazzworks.

Presently, Bonnie hosts a daily afternoon jazz program on the WPBX/WCWP Long Island Public Radio Network, as well as two other specialty shows. The Song Is You, which airs Fridays at 4 p.m., is a music/talk show where musicians, authors, artists, politicians, and others are invited to share their favorite music with WPBX listeners. Through unscripted conversation, her guests reveal how music has touched their lives. Bonnie created this concept ten years ago in Los Angeles. Her roster of interviewees includes hundreds of artists, musicians and writers, such as Pat Metheny, Arlo Guthrie, Andre Previn, Victor Borge, Ray Bradbury, Roger Rosenblatt, Phillip Glass and k.d. lang, to name a few.

The Eclectic Café, which airs on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., is a mix of jazz, pop, rhythm and blues, soul, world and Latin music, blended with intelligent and entertaining commentary for what is becoming a favorite show for our listening audience.

Bonnie leads a busy life outside of radio. She is a librettist and author. In July 1993, the two-act chamber opera, Mrs. Dalloway, for which Bonnie wrote the libretto based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, had its critically-acclaimed world premiere by Lyric Opera Cleveland (music by Libby Larsen). And in the fall of 1994, Bonnie wrote the book From Z to A - A Classical Lover's Alternative, a unique, somewhat quirky, yet inclusive guide to the great composers, from Zappa to John Adams. Bonnie is also a flutist and an aspiring singer. She's spent some time in the theatre as both actor and producer. Plus, she's an avid fan of football and fast cars.

For more information, please contact Nancy Marksbury (631) 591-7021.