Bonita
Friedericy returned to the Colony stage as Carrie in Toys
in the Attic, last appearing here as Ellie Dunne
(Drama-Logue award)
in Heartbreak House, both directed by Jessica Kubzansky. Other Colony
appearances
(sans Jessica) include Our
Country's
Good (Ovation Award), 17 Days, Oxford's Will (with
Barbara Beckley),
and Could I Have This Dance? (Robby Award), as well as
Grotesque
LoveSongs, When
the Bough
Breaks, Bedroom
Farce,
Thataway
Jack, A
Day Out of Time,
and Round and Round the Garden. In addition, she
directed the Colony
Bonus productions of Picnic
and
Fool
for Love.
She is also a resident actor with Bottom's Dream, a more experimental theatre company. She has been seen there performing The Land of Fog and Whistles, a 50-minute Mac Wellman monologue, directed by Jim Martin, playing the ghost of the planet Pluto. She has also appeared in I Ought To Be In Pictures at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, directed by Jules Aaron.
Bonita was the first recipient of the Natalie Schaeffer (Lovey Howell) Award, a lovely award/endowment for somewhat struggling character actresses in Los Angeles.
Bonita has appeared on television a lot lately, trying to guest on her dearest friends’ favorite shows (Enterprise, Angel, Alias, etc.). In the fall, she will make a brief appearance as an ancient, drunken motel manager in the film The House of Sand and Fog. She has a husband and two cats. She is extremely fond of all of them.