For over 20 years, Bonnie Grice has programmed
some of the most listened-to music on public
radio. Her wealth of radio experience,
producing/hosting and interviewing, add up to a
standard of professionalism that she has spent a
lifetime developing.
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.
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.