Bonnie Panson

Bonnie Panson has been stage managing on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally for the past 50 years.  Most recently, she was at Lincoln Center Theater for two shows: Floyd Collins directed by Tina Landau, and Amahl and The Night Visitors directed by Kenny Leon. She has stage managed over 30 Broadway productions and is honored to be the original Broadway Production Stage Manager for so many new musicals. Among them: Six, A Beautiful Noise directed by Michael Mayer; Anastasia directed by Columbia School of the Arts graduate Darko Tresnjak; Dance of the Vampires; The Civil War; Suessical; Bring in 'Da Noise/funk directed by George C. Wolfe. Some of her other Broadway credits include Chicago; Bring it On; Gigi; Spider-man Turn Off the Dark; Private Lives; Blast!; Starlight Express, and The Pirates of Penzance. She has toured extensively with Evita, Bring it On, and multiple concert tours of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Regionally, she’s worked at Papermill Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Hartford Stage, and at The Muny in St. Louis, where last summer she did Dear Evan Hansen. Off-Broadway credits include two Bill Finn originals: A New Brain at Lincoln Center and his Romance in Hard Times at the Public Theatre, three shows at the magical Delacorte Theatre in Central Park and The Last Five Years, directed by its composer, Jason Robert Brown.  She was born and raised in Brooklyn and is a proud graduate of Mount Holyoke College.