D’Onofrio ‘Cold Reading and Monologue’ workshop
The Bonita Springs International Film Festival opens Thursday night with a screening of Eugene Jarecki’s The King, followed by a concert featuring Freddie Mercury music.
The festival runs through Sunday night’s awards ceremony and includes many highlights and points of interest for cineastes, producers, directors, actors and other filmmaking professionals and wannabes, including a Cold Reading & Monologue workshop by Elizabeth D’Onofrio. The workshop includes Cold Readings from actual film and TV sides, Script analysis, and self-tape auditions. Students will receive their taped audition through email.
Elizabeth D’Onofrio 
is a professional Off-Broadway theater and film actor, director and producer. She has instructed classes and workshops around the United States based on her studies at the American Stanislavski Theater and with Sharon Chatten of The Actors Studio. She is one of the founders of the River Run Film Festival in North Carolina along with her brother, Vincent, and their father, Gene D’Onofrio. Elizabeth volunteered as the Artistic Director of the Fort Myers Beach Film Festival for four years and judged films 
in the early years of the Fort Myers Film Festival and Naples International Film Festival. Recent acting roles include Simple Things, Awaken the Dawn, Dear Angry (2005) and The Chocolate Fetish (2004).
The Cold Reading & Monologue workshop takes place on Saturday, February 23 at 1:30 p.m. The fee per workshop is $25.
February 19, 2019.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.