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Jesse Bonnell and Poor Dog Group in Group Therapy

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Does the US need one big group therapy session? Jesse Bonnell and Poor Dog Group experiment with that idea by working with a therapist to confront some of today’s most challenging questions in their Creative Capital Project, Group Therapy. Premiering Jan 11-13, 2018 at the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, the new theater piece draws on 16 hours of audio recordings from the group’s actual therapy sessions with a licensed professional to examine their long-term collaboration, and how their relationship has progressed through marriages, divorces, disagreements, alcoholism, and the struggle of being professional artists.

"I feel that it’s important right now to practice empathy and to be very public about your experience and our shared experience. Even if our problems seem banal, the act of putting it in front of each other hopefully benefits our well being." — Jesse Bonnell

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Jesse Bonnell
Creative Capital 2015 Awardee

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Jesse Bonnell is a writer and director based in Brooklyn, NY. He is a co-founder of Poor Dog Group, a collective dedicated to contemporary theater. Nationally, his work has been shown at REDCAT, The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, RADAR L.A., South Coast Repertory, The Getty Villa, EMPAC, The Collapsible Hole, Baruch Performing Arts Center and site-specific locations. Abroad, his work has toured throughout Eastern Europe including Croatia, Poland and Serbia. He has received project support from Theater Communications Group, Foundation for Contemporary Art, United States Embassy Belgrade and Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and a Cultural Exchange International Grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Jesse was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and residencies at UCLA Hothouse, CalArts and Yaddo. Recently he was in residency at Headlands Center for the Arts and this year will be in residency at The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.

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